Using and Learning from Top Hat – a short post about our recent workshop
We recently put on a workshop ‘Using and Learning from Top Hat’. We found out about the problems and pitfalls of using Top Hat, but also how it can promote engagement, improve the experience of students and help lecturers to assess learning. Most importantly, we found out how planning for engagement fundamentally changes the way […]
Enhancing our use of Blackboard – Ideas from the Bb Teaching and Learning Conference 2018
In this post I want to share some ideas from the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference I attended in Manchester last week about how we can enhance our use of Blackboard . It was a very diverse conference with 264 participants from 22 different countries. Topics ranged from the potential of using large amounts […]
GradeMark rubrics – what are they and how can you use them?
What is a rubric? A rubric is a set of marking criteria that can be used to make marking easier and more consistent. You can also use a rubric to clarify what is expected from students and to give them feedback. GradeMark has rubrics that allow you to assign marks as well as qualitative rubrics […]
Assessment as dialogue
The following is a brief summary of a session on assessment as dialogue. The session ran on Wednesday, 14th September, as part of the LLI’s Focus On… activities. The themes covered were: Reflecting on what we mean by dialogue in education and the different ways we might enable it Looking at assessment, feedback and dialogue […]
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 […]
Using Turnitin to teach about plagiarism
Turnitin is not just for spotting plagiarism once an assignment is uploaded. It can be used to teach students about plagiarism. You can allow students to upload a version of an assignment and generate a similarity report as many times as they like before the due date. This will give you a chance […]
Focus on assessment
The Leicester Learning Institute (LLI) hosted what proved to be a lively and engaging ‘Focus on’ event, from Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 April. Tuesday’s sessions focused on assessment and feedback… It can often seem difficult to move away from tried and tested methods of assessment, such as exams and essays, especially when student […]
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