Online marking and e assessment (online)

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Online Marking & eAssessmentBlayn Parkinson │ Blended Learning Enhancement Officer

Jisc/QCA definition of eAssessment

e-Assessment is the end-to-end electronic assessment processes

where ICT is used for the presentation of assessment activity, and

the recording of responses. This includes the end-to-end

assessment process from the perspective of learners, tutors,

learning establishments, awarding bodies and regulators, and the

general public.

JISC, Effective Practice with eAssessment (2007)

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Session Outline

eAssessment

Why Online

Minimum Expectations/Baselining

Turnitin

Originality Reports

Blackboard and Grade Centre

Marking Workflow

Submission Restrictions

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1. Specifying

2. Setting

3. Supporting

4. Submitting

5. Marking and production of

feedback

6.Recording grades

7. Returning marks and feedback

8. Reflecting

eAssessment

JISC Assessment

and

Feedback Lifecycle

https://goo.gl/94Mhts

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1. Specifying

2. Setting

3. Supporting

4. Submitting

5. Marking and production of

feedback

6.Recording grades

7. Returning marks and feedback

8. Reflecting

eAssessment

JISC Assessment

and

Feedback Lifecycle

https://goo.gl/94Mhts

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eAssessment

Why?

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Reasons for considering the use of e-submission and e-marking include:

Flexibility and convenience

Saving paper and reducing printing costs

Tracking submissions and progress (for staff and students)

Use of text-matching software (Turnitin), to help identify plagiarism

Process Management: One central, secure and familiar system (Blackboard)

Easy archiving

Provision of clear, timely and easily accessible feedback

Opportunities for innovative and engaging feedback

Greater consistency e.g. comment banks or rubrics

No large quantities of paper

Access marking from anywhere

Markers can re-edit their feedback in a document as they go through it

Why Online?

JISC has worked with

several institutions on

Electronic Assessment

Management (EAM) and

evaluated these projects.

They have summarised

some of the benefits for

students and benefits for

staff.

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Good practice for online submission

Good practice

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Clearly Signpost in the VLE where students need to go to find...

Good practice

Submission point(s)

Assignment & Submission Criteria

Marking Criteria

Mitigating Circumstances

Support and Guides

Each Module will need a ‘My Grades’ linkTip:

•During a lecture, bring up the VLE and show the submission point and any supporting material and resources that go with it.

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Good practice

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An example of module design with key information clearly signposted.

Tip:

•If modules have a similar layout it makes it easier for students to navigate.

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Turnitin

Turnitin checks text-based assignments for information

copied from websites, electronic journals and the work

of other students. Staff can create a Turnitin submission

area in VLE modules/organisations.

Student Guides

eAssessment Survival Guide

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/students/assess/eassessment/

Submit a Turnitin paper

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/students/assess/turnitin/

How to get your Turnitin receipt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK-2L-DN6A (Youtube)

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Student Submission

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Turnitin in the VLE

Example submission

point

1. Enter your details into the

appropriate text fields.

2. Choose the file you wish

to upload .

3. Click ‘Upload’ to submit.

Students View 1.

2.

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Setting up a submission point

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Turnitin in the VLE

Staff View

Optional SettingsWhen creating a submission area, you should

review the optional settings. To do this, click the

Optional Settings button on the new assignment

page.

1. 2.

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Turnitin in the VLE

Key optional settings

1. Allow Submission after due date

2. Generate Originality Report for submission.

3. When you want the originality report

generating

4. Do you want the students to see the originality

report (Should be set to No)

5. Revel the grade only on the ‘Post Date’ (not

before).

6. Do you want to use anonymous marking

(Yes/No).

7. Do you want the submitted papers adding to

the Turnitin repository (Yes/No)

8. Where to attach a rubric to the assignment.

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File Type MS Word (.doc/.docx)*, WordPerfect (.wpd), PostScript (.ps/.eps), HTML, RTF (.rtf), OpenOffice (.odt)**

plain text (.txt) and Google Drive's 'Docs' format.

PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps).

Note:* MS Word - Office 365/OneDrive files aren't currently accepted.

** Open Office Text: Turnitin will not accept .odt files created and downloaded from Google Docs online, or ".doc" files created using OpenOffice.

File size limits are: 40MB (text and mixed media),

2MB for text only files,

Max 400 pages in length.

Browser Restrictions Turnitin no longer supports Internet Explorer 10 or older

Turnitin Restrictions

Guide:

Managing documents file sizes for submission (https://goo.gl/y3WW7q)

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Originality Reports

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Originality Reports

YouTube Video: Originality Reports -

How to interpret them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

f9w_qsb-dP8

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Turnitin

Turnitin checks text-based assignments for information

copied from websites, electronic journals and the work

of other students. Staff can create a Turnitin submission

area in VLE modules/organisations.

Staff Guides

UoL VLE Support Turnitin Guide

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/staff/assess/turnitin/

YouTube Video: Grade a Turnitin Assignment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZp18N5fy4

YouTube Video: How Turnitin works with Blackboard Grade Centre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjXWvCsGgM

YouTube Video: Originality Reports - How to interpret them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9w_qsb-dP8

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Grade Centre

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VLE & the Grade Centre

Terminology Grade Centre – Blackboard

Grade Mark - Turnitin

Grade Book – Bespoke application, Banner interface with Blackboard (in development)

The Grade Centre provides access to student

submissions and other gradable activity.

UoL VLE Guide: Grade Centre

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/staff/assess/gradecentre/

Blackboard’s own guide: Grade Centre (external site)

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VLE & the Grade Centre

Smart Views

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From the Grade Centre

1. Click Manage > Smart Views

2. Create Smart View

3. Any ‘Smart View’ stared as a ‘Favorited’ will

display under the ‘Full Grade Centre’ link in the

left hand menu

Guides

UoL: Smart View Guide.

Blackboard: Smart View Guide

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VLE & the Grade Centre

Entering Grades

From the Full Grade Centre or a Smart View

1. Grade Centre > Full Grade Centre or Smart

View

2. Roll cursor over submission to grade

3. Click contextual menu button > View Grade

Details/Attempt

or

Click into grade box to enter grades

Guides

UoL: What is the Grade Centre?

Blackboard: Grade Centre

Blackboard: Entering Grades

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Marking with an iPad

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Using an iPad

1. Log into the VLE and go to Organisational Tool>Turnitin Assignments

2. Practice Marking on the desktop computer

3. Generate an iPad/mobile Access code

4. Switch to an iPad and try marking on that (don’t forget to sync once finished)

5. Create a custom Marking List and export (email it to yourself) and import

Desktop and iPad

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Using an iPad

Turnitin Webcast: Grade Anywhere -- Turnitin for iPad (YouTube)

Marking-with-Turnitin-app (YouTube)

Turnitin on the iPad - University of Kent (PDF)

Other Links

https://youtu.be/sNcucatlw-c

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VLE Organisations With Assessment Information

Geography, SoG Staff: L&T Information

SEE Staff: L&T Information

Transport Studies

Student Education Servicehttp://ses.leeds.ac.uk/info/22169/assessment-related_policies

Resources

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Questions