Go to Grademark and click on the Quickmark Editor button located at the top right of the Grademark window. The Quickmark Manager window will load. The left column shows Grademark sets. The middle column lists individual comments (Quickmarks) included in the selected set. The right column shows options for the selected set. Click on the name of the […]

First you will need to click the “Assessments” item from the toolbar, then choose the option ‘Assignments’, as circled below. When you load up the Assignments area you should see a list of assignments, with a column titled “Feedback” to the right of each one. When Feedback is published to students a link called “View” […]

To upload an assignment file to MyLO, follow the steps below. Step 1: Check the assignment requirements to ensure that your file is in the correct format. Step 2: Log into your MyLO unit and select the Assessments Menu on the toolbar. Then choose the option “Assignments” (as highlighted below).   Step 3: You will […]

VideoNote is a tool included with MyLO. It allows you to capture short videos of up to three (3) minutes using a webcam and microphone*. The tool is available anywhere that you can see the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor in MyLO, including: HTML pages; Discussion descriptions and posts; Quiz questions answer options and […]

There are a variety of online tools and software applications that you can use to help students create or perform items for assessment, and submit online. Here, we  review some of the tools supported by UTAS.   Tool Suitable for… Submission Marking and feedback Considerations Microsoft Office Creation of a range of documents, from Word […]

Presentations, delivered by individuals or small groups, are a common form of assessment in face-to-face classes. What am I really assessing? Presentations can be used to assess students’ ability to explain, justify (e.g. a particular pitch or strategy), structure and argument, represent their findings (analysis and evaluation) and/or synthesise ideas. The success of a student’s presentation hinges […]

If used for formative assessment, in-class tests can be a useful means of helping students check their progress throughout the semester (as long as feedback is provided following the test). The tests can also provide you with rapid feedback about the class’ progress so that you can adapt your teaching focus accordingly. Getting all students – […]

Our peers from Victoria University (VU) have put together some great sample rubrics for different assessment types, which you can see here. Just click on the thumbnail of a rubric to see it in detail. Even better – these rubrics are actually designed to be imported into a D2L (MyLO) unit, as VU use the […]

Turnitin is a text matching service used to compare student-submitted work to the existing literature, as well as student work already stored on its database. Turnitin highlights text matches, allowing you to rapidly detect possible areas of plagiarism or collusion in a student’s writing. Grademark/Feedback Studio, which is available when a student’s work is submitted […]

If you use Grademark to provide comments on students’ work, you, or your students, may wish to download or print the feedback. These instructions should work for both staff & student views in the Grademark interface (known as ‘Feedback Studio’). First load up the assignment and go into the Feedback Studio area (either by clicking […]