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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This solution would suit scenarios like this: Students must deliver a presentation for one assessment task. The task is worth 20% of the unit assessment. Students may deliver their presentation at a nominated tutorial time between weeks 5 and 10 of semester. You decide to make students submit their presentation plan/slides to a Dropbox the […]

This solution would suit scenarios like this: Students will deliver a presentation and then respond to questions from teachers and peers for an Assessment Task worth 35 marks. Face-to-face (F2F) students deliver their presentation and respond to questions in class. You will use a standalone Grade Item to provide F2F students with a grade and […]

This solution would suit scenarios like this: Students submit their work to a MyLO Dropbox. Their submission is worth 100% of Assessment Task 1. Students contribute to one Discussion Topic. Their contributions to the topic are worth 100% of Assessment Task 1. Students complete a Quiz. The Quiz is worth 100% of Assessment Task 1. […]

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 […]

Once you have created an electronic Rubric in MyLO, you can attach it to a Grade Item. We recommend attaching Rubrics to standalone Grade Items that will be used to grade Discussions, or to keep track of work that is performed in class, like participation or presentations. This page will show you how. We recommend attaching […]