Assessment & Marking

An overview of the benefits of using peer assessment in teaching and learning.

This webpage discusses the merits of creating assignment spaces in Blackboard and the various means of marking submitted work.

This page considers options for reducing marking workload.

This page looks at how to get information from students to help you improve your taught units or your teaching more generally.

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful time saver for academics as they are quick to mark, but they are only useful to the learners if they are planned well.  Here are some pointers for you to consider when designing and implementing multiple choice quizzes, whether on paper or in Blackboard.

Providing feedback to students can be one of the most effective ways to help them learn. How, what and when feedback is delivered is key. Poor quality feedback provided at the wrong time can do more harm than good.

The characteristics of effective feedback.

This webpage contains detailed guidance on how you can combine Blackboard’s Student Preview and adaptive release tools to verify tests or assignments and test out marking process.

Recommended techniques to use in Blackboard tests, to increase the confidence you have in the security, reliability or validity of online assessments.

Here are a collection of quick tip videos demonstrating some of the Blackboard assessment and feedback tools that are available.