Online Assessment and Feedback

Online assessment is an important part of a student’s learning experience. There are many methods, tools and teaching practices we can support you with to enhance the effective use of online assessment within your course.

Engaging with online assessment will provide pedagogic benefits such as transparent feedback to all students, streamline the process for varied courses, as well as time-saving gains for all students and staff involved in the assessment and feedback lifecycle.

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Assessments and exams come in many different forms and whether it is about knowledge-based tests, assignments or presentations each traditional offline type can have an online counterpart.  

We have many tools available which can facilitate online assessment: 

Canvas Quizzes  

• Develop question banks 

• Use rich media (images, videos) 

• Various question types including MCQ, open ended, matching 

• Integrates with LockDown Browser for additional security  

Canvas Assignments 

• Flexible for Literature review, Annotated Bibliophagy, Essay, Case Study, Project Reports, Reflective journals  

• Group assignments  

• Integrates with Turnitin for originality text match  

• Ability to peer review 

Feedback in Canvas   

• Use rubrics/marking schemes for grading  

• Provide annotations and general comments  

• Ability to record audio and video feedback to give humanized touch  

• Continue the conversation with students through feedback comments  

Panopto 

• Students can prerecord presentations and edit as they see fit 

• Ability to build in quizzes/discussions for audience interaction   

Teams 

• Large groups can participate and interact live  

• Ability to use chat, sharing screen and record  

• Utilise polling and whiteboard features for interactions  

• Simulate scenarios in group or 1:1 setting  

Myprogress  

• Deploy forms/assessments which need external observation (placement)  

• Visualisation and tracking of students’ progress across assessments  

• Clear learner journey across assessments and years  

Informal use of Assessment Tools: 

Mentimeter  

• Online voting 

• Create interactive presentations 

• Respond via mobile phone 

• Immediate and easily interpretable results 

• Share and export results for further analysis 

• Compare results over time to measure student progress 

Canvas Discussions 

• Allow for different writing styles  

• Students must post before seeing others  

• Acknowledge professionalism in from of peers  

• Simple to monitor, give feedback and grade 

Polls in Teams  

• Formative use or 'exit' style  

• See live results  

• Send to anyone  

• Automatic feedback