Online Assignment Submission, Allocation, Marking, Moderation and Return in Blackboard
- A Fresh Approach
Michael Garner, Griffith UniversityProfessor Stephen Colbran, University of New England
www.remarkspdf.com
The University
• Griffith University• Blackboard Academic Suite 8
– Moving to 9.1 in 2012• OUA provider
– courses in online only mode• 5 Campuses
The Context
• All courses have a presence in Blackboard• Currently 4 Assignment types as well as paper-based submission
– Native e-submission– Remote Assignment Printing– SafeAssign– Manual submission
• Blended Learning Strategy aimed at increasing the baseline of technology use in courses
• Supporting a larger project to develop consensus moderation practices to support comprehensive Quality Assurance of Assessment standards
• Reviewing the 3 online assignment tools and looking for a more integrated approach
• Responding to student feedback around easier submission and faster return of feedback
Why Remarks?
• Multiple marking• Facilitates quality feedback quickly• Consistency through shared marking criteria, comment
banks.• Offline capability
The Pilot
• 2 stage roll-out• Stage 1
– Familiarity with the RemarksPDF tool– Expectations around e-Submission, marking and return– Evaluate viability of seamless LMS integration
• Stage 2– Ongoing familiarity with advanced features of RemarksPDF– Seamless Integration with LMS
Outcomes so far• Enthusiasm from academic staff about the
– range of marking tools available in the software– students in receiving timely and meaningful feedback.
• Positive feedback from students around the time to get the feedback and quality/amount.
Issues so far:• Limited LMS integration (ie. Involves multiple steps) – corrected in Stage 2• SafeAssign: Whilst there are workarounds, unable at this stage to extract assignments submitted
via SafeAssign
LMS integration
Advanced PDF functionality
Rubrics
Text, audio and video comments
Coverpage and Endnote
Marks, criteria and comments
Handwriting, drawing and pen tools
Style libraries
Smart charts
Colour coding
Criterion-based marking
Stamps
Automatic mark addition
Moderation
Customizable
What students’ think
Questions
Michael [email protected]
07 3735 4097
Stephen [email protected]
www.remarkspdf.com07 3399 4010
