Sometimes you may need to hide an Assignment Submission Folder from students. You may do this whilst editing elements of a folder, or to hide grades and feedback from students temporarily (e.g. if you need to publish results to Grades without students seeing them in the Assignments tool). Note that is is also advisable to hide the […]

You can filter your view of Grades and Assignment Submissions Folders to see only results or submissions from students enrolled in a particular group. This can be very useful if you are responsible for marking students in a particular unit code or tutorial group. Here’s how. Go to the Grades tool by selecting Grades from the MyLO […]

This post covers marking with a rubric that has been set up as a “Custom Points” rubric and that has been attached to either an assignment, discussion or grade item. A Custom Points Rubric has points associated with each criterion and level of the Rubric. It calculates a total score (and overall level) for a student by […]

Step 1 Go to the Assignments tool from the toolbar. Click on the assignment you wish to mark.   Step 2 A new page will load. Scroll down until you see a list of student submissions. The student’s names will appear, followed by the files they have submitted. You can view an individual file by […]

In the past, when marking a submission to an Assignment Submission Folder, a Rubric would open over the top of a student’s work. To get back to the student’s work, you would either have to save and close the Rubric, or open Grademark in a new browser tab so that you could view the student’s work in one tab […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

Once you have created an electronic Rubric in MyLO, you can attach it to an Assignment Submission Folder.  This post will show you how. Once you have attached the Rubric, you can mark with it. Step 1 Before you finalise your Rubric and attach it, you must ensure that the Rubric is correctly set up. You may wish to return […]

UTAS requires that academics do not release students’ final assessment task marks on MyLO until after the exam period and release of formal grades by the University. You can still mark students’ final assessment piece online and publish the marks to the Grades tool, but you will need to ensure that students cannot see the […]