If your students have been recording reflections using the ePortfolio tool – whether via Forms or via self-initiated Reflections – you may want to assess their work at some point. Students can submit individual ePortfolio items to you via a Dropbox. However, if you would like students to submit several ePortfolio items for assessment, it […]

You can use Grademark to apply comments to electronic assignment submissions. Students can then view the comments once their assessment results have been published. Why use Grademark? Grademark allows you to insert comments onto a student’s assignment. You can use an existing bank of comments, known as a Grademark Set, or create new comments as […]

Turnitin and Grademark/Feedback Studio can work with a variety of file types. The table below indicates the types of files that students may submit, and whether these file types can generate an Originality Report (for plagiarism checking) and/or be viewed in Grademark/Feedback Studio (note that Feedback Studio combines both the Originality Report and Grademark views on one screen). […]

MyLO Rubrics can be used to mark submissions made to Assignment Submission Folders. They are also useful as a means of providing feedback to students about their performance on a task. If you plan to mark with Rubrics, or your Unit Coordinator has asked you to mark with Rubrics, you will find the following guides […]

Are you planning to use group assessment tasks in your unit? A list of useful links are provided below to help you create your chosen Assignment type (and an associated Survey if you need one). Useful resources Setting up a Group Assignment Submission for submission of group work Provides step-by-step instructions to help you create a Group Assignment […]

What does it do? The Assignments tool is used to facilitate electronic submission of individual or group assessment tasks. Assignment Submission Folders can be associated with Grade Items, Rubrics, and Competencies, which enable online marking, grading and feedback. Staff can also restrict access to Assignment Submission Folders by date and time, group membership or mode of study. Assignment Submission […]

This Blog Entry explains how students can find their grade, feedback, Rubric feedback and Grademark feedback via the Assignment tool. Please feel free to add the link to your MyLO  site, or print it and hand it out to students, if you feel it would be helpful.

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 […]