Presentation for the Faculty of Social Sciences professional services conference. Breaking Boundaries / Forging Links. July 2014

1. 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

9. 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 onwards
note – 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

14. 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