Quick Tips: using your Blackboard assessment and feedback tools
Here are a collection of quick tip videos demonstrating some of the Blackboard assessment and feedback tools that are available.
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Moving to Blended Learning Part 10: Ideas on how to modify your current assessment for blended learning
In this video James Brooks walks through how he adapted his existing exam into an ‘open book’ format.
How do I devise effective assessment?
Resources to support the design of effective assessment.
Rethinking assessment: less information recall, more application
The pandemic forced us to move away from traditional examinations. This article discusses how open book exams could be a useful for assessing how your students are doing at higher levels of the Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Improving our student experience
Despite positive teaching feedback, the 2024 National Student Survey shows no significant improvement in overall student experience. The University has identified 15 actions to enhance performance, particularly in Assessment & Feedback and Student Voice, to be implemented across all levels.
Cadmus is now available for 2024/25
We are happy to announce that a new assessment tool called Cadmus will be available to use in Blackboard across the University from Monday, 30th September 2024. What is Cadmus? Cadmus is a secure online assessment platform accessed through the University’s Central Learning Environment (Blackboard). It facilitates the whole assessment cycle from assessment design through […]
Team News – Foundation Studies
We are delighted to announce that Professor Colin Steele has been appointed as the new Discipline Head of Education (DHoE) for the Foundation Studies Programme from 1st August 2024 for a period of three years. Colin takes over from Dr Jonathan Sly, who has held the DHoE role for the past 5 years.
Dr Jo Cartwright has also been appointed as Head of Foundation Studies from 1st August 2024. Jo takes over from Professor Andy Weightman.
But do you know who the Foundation Studies Team are..?
Join our Graide Pilot to explore how AI can improve marking times and feedback quality in STEM
We are excited to announce a pilot program with Graide, innovative teaching and learning assessment software designed to enhance the educational experience for both educators and students. Register for our event on 12th September to find out more.
Developing students as innovators
This case study looks at the importance of innovation and how peer action learning and peer evaluation, can benefits students.