JISC EBEAM Project
Some great work is happening on evaluating the benefits of electronic assessment in HE externally. A project team at the University of Huddersfield is currently evaluating the impact of e-assessment...
View ArticleThe e-Feedback Evaluation Project (eFeP)
The Open University and University of Manchester have undertaken a project to evaluate the effectiveness of e-feedback. The project team recognises the central role that assignment feedback plays in...
View ArticleNew SaGE awareness sessions!
The new schedule of Autumn and Winter 2012 SaGE awareness events is now available for staff to sign up. These sessions will provide staff with an opportunity to ensure they are familiar with the tools...
View ArticleFormatting your feedback
Did you know you can use italics, bold and underlined text in your feedback in GradeMark? Typing very simple tags (text) either side of the text you would like to format will allow you to change the...
View ArticleOccupational Health Guidance
Guidance from the Health & Safety Office has been updated for Online Marking. General guidance on the use of computers still applies to electronic marking so there is nothing within the document...
View ArticleSpell Checking Your feedback
A few people have asked how they can use a spell checker within Turnitin GradeMark. Generally if you use Google Chrome as your Internet Browser spelling errors will be underlined with the red zigzagged...
View ArticleSaGE so far…
SaGE has been rolled out across the institution and we are continuing to review its uptake by staff and students. Marking electronically enables feedback to be legible, accessible by all and will...
View ArticleSurvey: Tell us what you think…
Staff and students are being asked to fill in the SaGE survey available on NILE now, for the next few weeks (links also below). Please use this as an opportunity to let us know your thoughts on using...
View ArticleNew guidance for passing grades to the SAT
If you record grades for the assessments on NILE in the Grade Centre, you can now pull off the grades from NILE and pass them to the SAT in around 2 minutes! If you do not record your grades in the...
View ArticleTurnitin/Grade Centre integration gremlins
A number of queries have been raised with the Learning Technologists about Grade Centre (GC) columns reverting to display a numeric value rather than UG/PG letter. This typically happens when a tutor...
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