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A post about Twitter, written by Fiona C Saunders, Lecturer in Project Management at The University of Manchester

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.

As well as delivering the material and assessments, it is important that we ensure our teaching provides opportunities for all students to be successful on their programme, whatever their background and individual needs.

Encourage your students to learn from each other by creating opportunities for peer interaction

A knowledge of the way students learn can help us design effective courses and help us to advise and guide our students. While the literature on this topic is vast, there are a few key pieces of experimental work that everyone who designs or changes courses should know

The characteristics of effective feedback.

Advice and resources to support the design of course units.

Resources to support effective course delivery.

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.