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This page signposts you to information about using technologies at each stage of assessment and feedback.
The tabs give a summary of each stage and links to further information.
Set up your assessment.
Good practice expectations at UCL include:
If students have queries, encourage them to post where fellow students can see your responses. A Moodle forum with student names hidden is one good place for this.
Let students know of the generic guidance we provide around submitting their work. Our student guidance includes Moodle Assignment, Turnitin Assignment and Moodle Quiz.
Staff can grant extensions for individual students as required.
Where students have not submitted you can contact them (even where anonymous) directly via the assignment (Moodle assignment or Turnitin assignment), or via the Course Participation Report, which gives the opportunity to filter and message students.
Good practice expectations at UCL:
A consistent feedback template
Departments are expected to agree on a consistent student feedback template for any given assignment which makes appropriate reference to the marking criteria and explains to students how they can improve their work in future.
UCL assessment platforms offer alternatives for this:
Depending on the technology you are using, there is a range of ways to give feedback.
Ways to give feedback
For essays and opopen-endedork:
For tests:
If using a Moodle Quiz, you can specify feedback for each question and/or grade band.
Transferring marks from the Moodle Gradebook into Portico can be a semi-automated process if you use Excel's VLOOKUP formula.
Before each new intake of students, you will need to roll over your Moodle course. You do not need to worry about keeping your own private record of submissions since staff and students will have ongoing access to each course in Moodle. (Older Moodle courses prior to 21/22 are stored in the Moodle snapshot).
You can access the Gradebook setup via the Grade menu in your course. Simply click Grade and Gradebook setup.
Check to make sure your course total is calculated correctly if you wish to use Moodle's calculation. If the course total looks wrong, check your weightings.
The main student identifier that Moodle uses is the Portico 'Student Number'. Please note: to ensure the anonymity of student submissions, Moodle does NOT store the student's 'candidate number'.
To quickly move marks from a Moodle Gradebook spreadsheet to a Portico spreadsheet, whilst minimising errors, you may find it useful to use Excel's VLOOKUP formula. This process is explained in the Portico team's importing by module support guide.
The common identifier for students in a Moodle Gradebook spreadsheet and the Portico A26 spreadsheet is the Student Number.
Please see the Portico team's guides and training on importing marks into Portico.
Moodle Assignment - you can release marks and feedback when you're ready. You can enable Marking Workflow in the assignment settings, and set the Marking Workflow state on selected or all submissions within the assignment, as marks are applied.
See a short video on Marking Workflow
See the Moodle Assignment miniguide for information
For further information on Moodle Assignment see Moodle.org
Turnitin Assignment - you set a Post Date in the Turnitin assignment settings when creating the assignment. Marks and feedback are automatically released at Post Date. (This is also when anonymised student identities will be revealed)
See the Turnitin Assignment miniguide for information
Also, see our related guides:
Quiz - you can either specify when the marks and feedback should be released, or release them when you're ready.
See the Moodle Quiz miniguide for information
For further information on Moodle Quiz see Moodle.org
Moodle Workshop - you can release peer marks and feedback to students when you're ready.
See the Moodle Workshop miniguide for information
For further information on Moodle Workshop see Moodle.org
While marking work, you will be prompted to Save your changes. Ensure you do this before closing down your browser.
If you have selected Use marking workflow in the Moodle Assignment settings, ensure the status of the workflow is set to 'Released'.
Grades will not feed back to the Moodle gradebook and will not be visible to students unless blind marking has been ‘lifted off’ the assignment and student names have been revealed. Note: Once you reveal names you cannot revert to blind marking again. You can do the following to reveal names:
MyFeedback Report - enables staff and students to see marks and feedback recorded in Moodle, across courses. The report includes Moodle Assignments, Turnitin Assignments, Workshops and Quizzes.
See the Moodle MyFeedback miniguide for information
For further information on MyFeedback see Moodle.org
In Quiz, consult the Quiz Statistics Report for insights into the relative ease of questions and how discriminating each is.
Reflecting on the assessment process itself, staff may wish to consider whether the task was well conceived and whether instructions were optimal i.e. did they display where needed, and did the most important aspects stand out. Make refinements as needed.
Also see:
Digital Education miniguides on assessment technologies:
Educational guidance:
UCL policy and regulations