Assessment & Marking

Guidance for staff on planning and setting up an assignment-based online exam.

Step-by-step instructions with videos for setting up Gradescope for your Blackboard course space. In this page, you’ll find specific details for completing each of these steps and links to other pertinent Gradescope Help Centre articles.

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 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.

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 […]

Guidance to help you prepare and design your peer assessment activity

An overview of the benefits of using peer assessment in teaching and learning.

This webpage discusses the merits of creating assignment spaces in Blackboard and the various means of marking submitted work.

This page considers options for reducing marking workload.

This page looks at how to get information from students to help you improve your taught units or your teaching more generally.