E-Assessment : Online submission, marking & feedback

E-Assessment : Online submission, marking & feedback

Breaking Boundaries/Forging Links:

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Format

• I'm not talking for an hour!

• Setting the scene

• Demonstration of the tools

• Review of departments

• Share ideas , tips & pitfalls

• Wish list for the Future

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E-assessment?

• Generic term covering all uses of technology in

assessment

• End to end electronic process , presentation of

an assessment activity, recording of responses,

marking & feedback

• Who is Included in the process

• learners, tutors, learning establishments,

awarding bodies, external regulators

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Types of tools we could include

• Wikis

• Email submission and feedback

• Blogs & comments

• E-portfolios

• Specific VLE assignment tools (MOLE)

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MOLE / Blackboard

• Two specific assignment tools are available

• Blackboard Assignment Tool

• Turnitin

both fully integrated into MOLE,

similar features but differing functionality

both under constant development

presentation is based on current provision!

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Blackboard Assignment Tool

• Inline feedback, highlights and annotations

• supports most file formats (Law had some issues with the viewer)

• No audio feedback but can attach files

• control over number of attempts

• Release assignment to a sub group of students

• Anonymous marking - but easy to turn off

• No app for offline Marking

• Rubric slightly more flexible?

• Notes for other graders

• Video feedback is possible

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Turnitin Assignment Tool

• Not a plagiarism checker!• e-assessment tool with a text matching function

• Grademark• Quickmarks

• Inline comments, general comments & audio

• Rubric

• Handles anonymous marking better

• Peermark – peer review

• iPad app for offline marking

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Turnitin new in 2014• Text match in Excel

• Import Rubric from Excel

• Submit Anything – more creative assessment• Video

• MP3

• Spreadsheets

• Submit Nothing• Grade and feedback a dance, recital, speech

• Comments & QM linked to mark criterion

• Grading Forms – not in iPad yet

Blackboard Development (summer 2014 - depending on upgrade)

•Anonymous and parallel marking – available on anything

that can be graded in MOLE – quizzes, tests, wikis etc.

•Will require a new course role in order to set up

anonymous marking on an item

•Different Levels of Markers.

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Turnitin 2015 onwardsnote – screens may not look exactly like this

• Responsive design – supports range of device, tablets & phones

• Tools in a menu on the right, collapsed when you are not using it.

• Turnitin and GradeMark displayed within the single view

• Thumbnails on the left to navigate more easily

• Improvements to using rubrics – marking ranges

• inline voice comments & formatting of text comments

• Multiple marking - 2 or more markers grade & give feedback. Moderator

determines which feedback is seen & which overall grade is returned.

• Create groups - supports delegated marking

• multiple drafts for an assignment, each of which can be marked.

• submit multiple documents for a single assignment

Round the Departments

•Over to you……

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Possible discussion points• Heath & Safety – DSE

• How to help staff who wont or cant grade on screen / tablet – Siri?

• Help & Support

• Archiving Policy

• Setting up rubrics

• How we give external access

• Processes to deal with system downtime

• Students don’t have aces to Old MOLE modules – need to print out

• Peer Review – students who don’t participate but still want feedback