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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.
Design a task which will give students the opportunity to demonstrate their learning. Plan what students will do, how you will collect the submissions, and how assessors will give marks and feedback. Familiarity with the available technologies helps to expand the possibilities at this stage.
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 about the generic guidance we provide about 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) via the activity's Participation Report, which gives the opportunity to filter and email students (except Moodle Workshop).
Good practice expectations at UCL:
Depending on the technology you are using, there is a range of ways to give feedback.
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 reset your Moodle space but you may not need to worry about keeping your own records of submissions since staff and students have access to each annual snapshot.
You can access the Gradebook under the Administration block in your course. Simply click Gradebook or 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.
As of November 2020, 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 release marks and feedback when you're ready.
Turnitin Assignment - you set a Post Date at the Setting stage; marks and feedback are automatically release then.
Quiz - you can either specify when the marks and feedback should be released, or release them when you're ready.
Moodle Workshop - you release peer marks and feedback to students when you're ready.
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