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Leaving Feedback in a KEATS Assignment Activity

CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 2

Important information .............................................................................................................................. 2

Accessibility considerations..................................................................................................................... 2

Quick Guide ................................................................................................................................................. 3

Feedback comments. .............................................................................................................................. 3

Feedback files. ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Offline grading worksheet. ....................................................................................................................... 4

Comment inline. ....................................................................................................................................... 4

Rubrics. ................................................................................................................................................... 4

Detailed Guide ..............................................................................................................................................5

Feedback comments. ...............................................................................................................................5

Feedback files .......................................................................................................................................... 6

Offline grading sheet .................................................................................................................................7

Comment inline ........................................................................................................................................ 9

Rubrics ................................................................................................................................................... 10

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INTRODUCTION This is one of a series of guides available from the Teaching, Learning & Assessment with Technology series. Please note, Your faculty may have other approaches or use different tools, contact your Faculty TEL Officer for more information on local provision.

The Assignment Activity in KEATS can be used to provide feedback to students. Students do not need to have submitted any work to the assignment activity for you to leave feedback for them, so the Assignment Activity can be used to give feedback for work such as live presentations or oral exams.

This document covers:

This document will cover all methods of feedback included in the Activity Assignment in KEATS. The feedback methods include:

• Feedback comments.

• Feedback files.

• Offline grading worksheet.

• Comment inline.

• Rubrics.

Important information

All feedback methods listed in this document can be configured in the settings of the Assignment Activity under the ‘Feedback types’ drop down. You can decide on whether to include one method of feedback, choose all, or choose several. Guidance on creating an Assignment Activity can be found on the Creating an Assignment Submission Area in KEATS guide.

Assignment Activities in KEATS can also have Turnitin enabled, which allows for feedback to be left in the Feedback Marking Studio. For advice on how to do this, please see the Grading Assignments in Feedback Studio guide. Please note, if marking using the Turnitin Feedback Studio, grades will be copied from Turnitin into the Moodle Assignment, but feedback will not.

Accessibility considerations

If marking using the Turnitin integration, accessibility considerations can be found on the Turnitin webpages.

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QUICK GUIDE To access the assignment area that you would like to use to give feedback to your students, find it in KEATS and click on it. You will see all submissions made by students, which will vary depending on how many files students are required to submit. If anonymous marking is enabled, those with Managing and Editing Teaching access will not see the names of the students, but those with Local Administrator and Local Administrator + access will.

Feedback comments.

This will allow you to feedback directly to the assignment area using the KEATS text editor.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback comments’ box to leave feedback. If multiple files have been uploaded you can leave comments related to both.

4. Once you have finished with your feedback, save your comments. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

Feedback files.

You will be able to upload files of feedback to individual students. For example, you could choose to upload a video or an audio file of yourself giving feedback, or download the students text-based submission, make annotations, and upload the annotated file.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button, then look through their submission.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback files’ box. You can drag and drop a feedback file into this box or browse your PC for the relevant file.

4. Once you have finished with your feedback, save your comments. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

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Offline grading worksheet.

If enabled, the teacher will be able to download and upload a worksheet with student grades when marking the assignments. In order to leave feedback using the offline grading worksheet, ‘Feedback comments’ must also be enabled.

1. First, go back to the assignment area (found from the main page of the course), and then selecting ‘View All Submissions”.

2. Click on the ‘Grading action’ dropdown menu and select ‘Download grading worksheet’. This will download a CSV spreadsheet containing details of all assignments added.

3. Complete the spreadsheet, including grades and feedback if necessary.

4. Back in the assignment area, click on the ‘Grading action’ dropdown menu and select ‘Upload grading worksheet’.

5. Upload the completed mark sheet. Leave the settings as they are and click ‘Upload grading worksheet’. You will be asked to confirm your changes.

6. Your grades and feedback will be uploaded to the assignments. You will be able to edit marks and feedback comments directly in KEATS.

Comment inline.

Please Note: This feature is only available for Online Text submissions. To use Comment inline, Feedback comments must also be enabled.

Comment inline copies the online submission over to the feedback comments sections for tutors to annotate directly within KEATS, perhaps with a different colour.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback comments’ box. The submission made by the student will be copied over.

4. Leave feedback comments to your student. You can change the colour of your text or the background of your text to indicate which comments are yours using functionality in the text editor.

Rubrics.

Full rubric guidance is available for undergraduate and postgraduate marking criteria on the King’s webpages. Your Faculty or Department may also have specific rubrics to use for assessments.

How to use rubrics in KEATS

Rubrics can be configured in the ‘Grading’ section of the Assignment activity settings. If you use a rubric to grade an assignment you will not be able to manually manipulate grades for assignments; grades will be calculated automatically via the rubric to maintain fair grading.

To build your rubric

1. Go to the Assignment activity, navigate to the Assignment Administration block (left hand side of the page), then to Advanced grading and click on ‘Define rubric.’

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2. Give your rubric a name and a description if appropriate.

3. Build your rubric. Add more criterion and levels as appropriate. Remember to review guidance from links above to ensure it is broadly in line with university approach.

4. Change the settings available as appropriate.

5. When your rubric is ready, click ‘Save rubric and make it ready.’ If you need to save your rubric and come back it at a later time, click ‘Save as draft.’

Using your rubric:

6. To use your rubric, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

7. Scroll down to the ‘Grade’ section. You will not be able to manually enter a grade mark.

8. Use the rubric to grade the student’s work. You can leave additional feedback in the comment boxes on the right-hand side. Grades will be automatically calculated.

9. Once you have finished with your feedback, save your comments. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

DETAILED GUIDE

Feedback comments.

This will allow you to feedback directly to the assignment area using the KEATS text editor.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback comments’ box to leave feedback. If multiple files have been uploaded you can leave comments related to both. The text editor in KEATS allows you to add images and video to your feedback.

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4. Once you have finished with your feedback save your comments. Clicking ‘Save changes’ will upload the grade and the feedback to the assignment. ‘Save and show next’ will take you to the next assignment that needs grading. ‘Reset’ will undo the changes you have made. You have the option to notify students that their feedback is ready by ticking the ‘Notify students’ box. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

Feedback files

You will be able to upload files of feedback to individual students. For example, you could choose to upload a video or an audio file of yourself giving feedback, or download the students text-based submission, make annotations, and upload the annotated file.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback files’ box. You can drag and drop a feedback file from your computer into this box or browse your computer for the relevant file.

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4. Once you have finished with your feedback, save your comments. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

Offline grading sheet

If enabled, the teacher will be able to download and upload a worksheet with student grades when marking the assignments. In order to leave feedback using the offline grading worksheet, ‘Feedback comments’ must also be enabled.

1. In the assignment area, click on the ‘Grading action’ dropdown menu and select ‘Download grading worksheet’. This will download a CSV spreadsheet containing details of all assignments added.

2. Complete the spreadsheet, including grades and feedback if necessary.

3. Back in the assignment area, click on the ‘Grading action’ dropdown menu and select ‘Upload grading worksheet’.

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4. Upload the completed mark sheet. You can drag and drop your CSV file by dragging and dropping it into the checked box, or by browsing your computer.

Leave the other settings as they are and click ‘Upload grading worksheet’. You have the option to override marks and feedback that have been loaded into KEATS more recently than in the spreadsheet.

You will be asked to confirm your changes.

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5. Your grades and feedback will be uploaded to the individual assignments. You will be able to edit any marks and feedback comments directly in KEATS.

Comment inline

Please Note: This feature is only available for Online Text submissions. To use comment inline, Feedback comments must also be enabled.

Comment inline copies the online submission over to the feedback comments sections for tutors to annotate directly within KEATS, perhaps with a different colour.

1. To leave a feedback comment, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

2. Leave a grade for your student in the Grade box.

3. Scroll down to the ‘Feedback comments’ box. The submission made by the student will be copied over.

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4. Leave feedback comments to your student. You can change the colour of your text or the background of your text to indicate which comments are yours using functionality in the text editor.

5. Once you have finished with your feedback save your comments. Clicking ‘Save changes’ will upload the grade and the feedback to the assignment. ‘Save and show next’ will take you to the next assignment that needs grading. ‘Reset’ will undo the changes you have made. You have the option to notify students that their feedback is ready by ticking the ‘Notify students’ box. The student will now be able to view their feedback.

Rubrics

Full rubric guidance is available for undergraduate and postgraduate marking criteria on the King’s webpages. Your Faculty or Department may also have specific rubrics to use for assessments.

How to use rubrics in KEATS

Rubrics can be configured in the ‘Grading’ section of the Assignment activity settings. If you use a rubric to grade an assignment you will not be able to manually manipulate grades for assignments; grades will be calculated automatically via the rubric to maintain fair grading.

1. To build your rubric - within the Assignment activity, navigate to the Assignment Administration block, then to Advanced grading and click on ‘Define rubric.’

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2. Give your rubric a name and a description if appropriate.

3. Build your rubric. Add more criterion and levels as appropriate. Criterion are what you are grading against, and levels are where the work sits in that criterion. Review the links to university guides above and ensure it is in line with this.

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4. Change the settings available as appropriate by unticking the boxes. You can determine whether students can see the rubric before they submit their work or not.

5. When your rubric is ready, click ‘Save rubric and make it ready.’ If you need to save your rubric and come back it at a later time, click ‘Save as draft.’

6. To use your rubric, click on the ‘Grade’ button.

7. Scroll down to the ‘Grade’ section. You will not be able to manually enter a grade mark.

8. Use the rubric to grade the student’s work by clicking on where the students work falls within your rubric. You can leave additional feedback in the comment boxes on the right-hand side. Grades will be automatically calculated.

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6. Once you have finished with your feedback save your comments. Clicking ‘Save changes’ will upload the grade and the feedback to the assignment. ‘Save and show next’ will take you to the next assignment that needs grading. ‘Reset’ will undo the changes you have made. You have the option to notify students that their feedback is ready by ticking the ‘Notify students’ box. The student will now be able to view their feedback.