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Recommendation
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Rationale
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Silver standard:
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Clear assessment guidance:
Ensure the Assessment information in the module template is populated.
Provide exemplar materials (i.e. past papers).
Set online activities encouraging students to engage with success criteria.
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Exemplar materials can help set expectations and, coupled with an activity, can help build familiarity with assessment criteria.
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Turnitin:
All formal written assessments (summative) should be submitted via Turnitin.
Allow students to see the similarity report and use Turnitin as a learning tool to help students improve on their referencing.
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Turnitin helps academic staff assess for plagiarism, and helps students see how well they have referenced the writing of others (via the similarity report).
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E-portfolios:
Use Mahara if students need to build an e-portfolio of work showing development and reflection of learning over time. This is especially good for submitting multiple documents of varying media types that might constitute an assessed portfolio.
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Mahara can be used to showcase work, skills and achievements with peers, tutors and potential employers.
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Regular formative assessment points:
Set up quizzes, polls, and reflective activities.
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Encourage students to take charge of their learning via self-assessment and self-reflective assessment opportunities.
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Video reflections and assignments:
Set-up quizzes inside Panopto videos to help learners check their understanding of key content.
Utilise Microsoft’s Flip to offer informal video reflections.
Set-up Moodle Assignments to help students submit non-written assessments.
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Video assignments can improve the variety of assessment types offered to students. For some Programmes this might support the development of key professional skills; a recommendation from the OfS Blended Learning regulation.
Student-created content on platforms such as Flip is a great way to build online student communities and to promote peer and self- reflection.
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Automated peer assessment:
Automate the sending of assessments to students via Turnitin (Peermark). This can include rubrics and structured forms within which students can comment and assess one another's work.
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Although fiddly to set-up, this can give students increased amounts of feedback, and can be a great way to draw attention to marking and success criteria.
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Feedback for collaborative design:
Use Vevox asynchronously to gather feedback on student experiences of online learning. Use this feedback proactively to inform and amend learning in future weeks.
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Make student feedback a more direct and immediate process. Collaborative design can empower learners.
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