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Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (4)

Posted March 29, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback, Peer Feedback.

The spotlight this week is on the Peer Assessment section of the toolkit.https://staffintranet.bournemouth.ac.uk/aboutbu/professionalservices/flie/assessmentandfeedbacktoolkit/peerfeedback/ This resource was developed by Dai Hounsell, Visiting Professor, and and is built around 10 commonly asked questions about peer feedback. The answers to each of these questions are supported by published literature. Peer Feedback will be the theme of the first… Read more » about Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (4)

Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (3)

Posted March 22, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback.

In this blog the spotlight is on the 50 ways of assessing section of the toolkit. https://staffintranet.bournemouth.ac.uk/aboutbu/professionalservices/flie/assessmentandfeedbacktoolkit/ Assessment is an important aspect of teaching and learning. It provides a measure of student performance (assessment of learning), but perhaps more importantly is also an import part of the learning process (assessment for learning). However, choosing appropriate assessments… Read more » about Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (3)

Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (2)

Posted March 15, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback.

In this week’s blog the spotlight is on the Formative Assessment section of the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit. https://staffintranet.bournemouth.ac.uk/aboutbu/professionalservices/flie/assessmentandfeedbacktoolkit/ Formative assessment that is aligned with summative assessment tasks can support learning, in line with the BU commitment to assessment for learning, and provides opportunities for students to: make sense of assessment criteria develop their… Read more » about Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (2)

Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (1)

Posted March 8, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback.

The BU Assessment & Feedback Toolkit has been created to provide a collection of resources for all aspects assessment and feedback. In this series of blogs I will spotlight one section of this large resource collection – this week the spotlight is on Assessment Literacy. This section of the Toolkit contains a Brief Guide to… Read more » about Spotlight on the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit (1)

Lively debate in the FLIE Generic Assessment Criteria Workshop

Posted February 24, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback, Assessment for Learning, Events and workshops, FLIE.

This week a FLIE Educational Enhancement workshop, led by Anne Quinney, focussed on using the generic assessment criteria. John Moran, Learning Technologist, contributed to the session and encouraged people to use the electronic rubric and to use the QuickMarks facility. The session covered how to use the Generic Assessment Criteria; where they are located in… Read more » about Lively debate in the FLIE Generic Assessment Criteria Workshop

Providing meaningful feedback for students

Posted February 16, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback, Assessment for Learning.

Students at BU, when asked recently, have voiced their wishes for clearer expectations about assignments and for clearer feedback. One of the tools that can be used to enhance feedback is the BU Generic Assessment Criteria, revised in 2021. This recent version places more emphasis on skills such as team-working, group work/project work, self-management of… Read more » about Providing meaningful feedback for students

Updated guidance for uGrade

Posted February 16, 2022 by twebb & filed under Assessment and feedback, Digital skills, News.

uGrade is BU’s name for our online peer and self-assessment system called WebPA, a product of Loughborough University and the University of Hull. uGrade is open source, locally hosted and integrated with Brightspace. It allows groups of students to mark each other’s (and their own) participation in group work against set criteria. uGrade uses an algorithm to… Read more » about Updated guidance for uGrade

Assessment for Learning: Education Excellence workshop

Posted February 9, 2022 by Anne Quinney & filed under Assessment and feedback, Curriculum design, Education, Events and workshops, FLIE.

FLIE’s Principal Lecturer Anne Quinney delivered an Education Excellence workshop on Assessment for Learning. The workshop focussed on the 6 dimensions of Sambell’s model (below) and provided opportunities to discover how to use these in unit design and in designing assessment. Sambell’s model underpins the BU Assessment Design policy (6c) and the BU Generic Assessment… Read more » about Assessment for Learning: Education Excellence workshop

Brightspace issue with large file submissions

Posted January 4, 2022 by Tim Galling & filed under Assessment and feedback, Brightspace, News.

We are currently investigating an issue with large file submissions which is preventing students from submitting large files to Brightspace (files over 1.3 GB). A fix has been identified and D2L are actively working on resolving the issue. We’re hopeful this will be resolved shortly and will update you on any developments. How does this… Read more » about Brightspace issue with large file submissions

Online guidance for marking and feedback

Posted November 30, 2021 by twebb & filed under Assessment and feedback, Brightspace, News, Teaching and Learning.

It’s that time of year when lots of people are involved in marking student assignment submissions. A reminder that there is lots of online guidance available to help you through the process, especially if this is something you haven’t done for a while. From the Brightspace Staff Resources area you can search on Guidance by… Read more » about Online guidance for marking and feedback