An overview of assignment-based online exams
Guidance for staff on planning and setting up an assignment-based online exam.
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Case study: Mentimeter in FSE
Find out why colleagues in FSE are finding Mentimeter a valuable addition to their teaching.
Gradescope: Homework assignment
Once you have created a Gradescope course, next you can create your assignment. This information will provide an overview of the Gradescope dashboard, menu options, staff roles/permissions and guidance for each stage of the workflow for a Homework assignment:
Gradescope
Gradescope enables electronic submission and marking of handwritten responses, typed responses, formulae and diagrams, programming/code and multiple choice. Gradescope can be added to any Blackboard course area. All Gradescope assignments and exams – both for students submitting and markers – are accessed through the Gradescope dashboard, the grades are pushed out to an associated column in the Blackboard Grade Centre.
Planning Collaborative Activities
Research shows that meaningfully integrated interactions (student–content, student–student, and student–teacher) increase learning outcomes.
How can you use formative feedback to help your students?
Giving our students feedback can have a profound impact on how they learn and how they feel about their studies. It is arguably one of the most important things we can do to help our students improve their performance in summative assessment (Broadfoot & Black 2004). Yet it is easy to brush past the practical […]
BuddyCheck: Get Started
A guide to setting up and using Buddycheck within your Blackboard course space.
Senior Fellowship for PS staff: A Conversation with Fiona Lynch SFHEA
Here Fiona Lynch tell us about her experience of applying for SFHEA as a member of PS staff and the benefits it has had for her career development.
2 minutes with a LEAP assessor
Sarah Hewitt is a Learning Technologist in the Faculty of Science and Engineering as well as the Faculty’s GTA Lead. Upon becoming an alumni of the Leadership in Education Awards Programme (LEAP), Sarah took up the opportunity to become a LEAP assessor.