Crowdsourcing using an online noticeboard
Padlet is a free online noticeboard, which enables you to post thoughts and ideas on ‘sticky notes’. You can add text, images, video, links or documents to the board from any device, and it can be shared publically or with a closed group. There are several ways Padlet can be used in the classroom to aid […]
Sharing QuickMark sets
If you create your own QuickMark sets, they will only be available to you under your log in. However, you can share your QuickMark sets with your colleagues. Watch the video to see how to share a QuickMark set by exporting or importing them. flickr photo shared by EbbeSand under […]
Turnitin and GradeMark changes
We now have a new version of Turnitin that looks quite different but mostly works in the same way. You will notice that when you look at the details of the similarity matches or mark online using GradeMark, the student work opens in the new Feedback Studio rather than the old document viewer. For more […]
Create your own QuickMark set in GradeMark
The default QuickMark sets in GradeMark may not have the sorts of comments that you want to make on assignments. For example you might have specialist terminology that you need to use, or certain errors tend to appear quite often. GradeMark allows you to create your own set of QuickMarks. You can then share […]
What did we ‘discover’ at our conference on 29 June
Chairing a successful conference on learning and teaching in my first six months at the University, while I’m still becoming familiar with custom and practice here, was never going to be easy. Particularly not in the throes of institutional transformation and a shifting position in the league tables. One thing that I was clear about as I […]
Hide marks from students in Blackboard
When you set up a Turnitin assignment you have to choose a Post Date. This is the date that students will be able to see their grades and comments via GradeMark. A problem with this is that when you enter marks in GradeMark, they go straight into Blackboard’s Grade Centre. This means that students […]
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