Would you like to be able to record student grades for exams, tutorial presentations, attendance or participation? These sorts of tasks can be graded using a Grade Item in the MyLO Grades tool. These instructions explain how to create a Grade Item in your unit.

From time to time you may need to provide students with extensions due to illness, technical issues or personal issues. If a student needs an extension on an online assessment task, you can use the Special Access feature to provide different types of extensions to different students. This video from Tam Lynch demonstrates how to […]

Presentations are a common form of assessment for group and individual assessment tasks. Presentations are usually delivered during face to face tutorials. How can we ‘translate’ the task of delivering a presentation into something that is feasible for distance students? Here are three possible solutions. Presentations during online sessions If you have a relatively small […]

Unless you want to mark an individual submission from every member of a group, it is best to allow groups to submit assessments to a Group Assignment Submission folder. This way, you only need to collect one submission from the group and grade it accordingly. As long as a Grade Item is assigned to the Assignment, […]

MyLO’s Assignment Submission Folder tool allows students to upload a file, or collection of files, for assessment. You can create a Submission Folder for individual students to submit to, or you can create a Group Submission Folder so one student can submit on behalf of a group of students. These instructions will show you how to create a Submission Folder for […]

Grade Items act as the connection between an assessment item – like an assignment – and the Grades tool. If you want to mark and record grades online, you may need to associate a Grade Item with an assessment item. You can link an existing grade item to an Assignment Submission folder, Quiz or Discussion Topic. Go to […]

Many Unit Coordinators include a group-related activity in their suite of assessment tasks. Presentations are a common form of assessment task for groups, but how can off-campus students get together to plan and record a group presentation, or simply just meet as a group? Using the UTAS web conferencing platform, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (from hereon referred […]

Here are three methods that can be used to grade student Discussion contributions online: Marking with a Grade Item via the Discussion Tool, in which a score and general feedback are provided; or Marking with a Rubric via the Discussion Tool, in which an electronic Rubric is used for feedback and/or grade calculation (when a Custom […]

You can grade student assignments using MyLO Rubrics. Creating an Analytic > Custom Points type Rubric will allow you to generate a score for each student, based on the weighting of each criteria, and the levels (e.g. HD, DN, etc.) selected for each criteria. The score does not need to be made visible to the student. You can also record […]

The MyLO Rubrics statistics feature shows you how grades/levels are distributed across the class, and the average grade/level for each criterion. To view the Rubric statistics: Step 1 Go to the MyLO site for your unit. Select Assessments > Rubrics. Step 2 Locate the Rubric you wish to review. Click on the small arrowhead next to the Rubric name, then […]