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.
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.
Multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful time saver for academics as they are quick to mark, but they are only useful to the learners if they are planned well. Here are some pointers for you to consider when designing and implementing multiple choice quizzes, whether on paper or in Blackboard.
Providing feedback to students can be one of the most effective ways to help them learn. How, what and when feedback is delivered is key. Poor quality feedback provided at the wrong time can do more harm than good.
A knowledge of the way students learn can help us design effective courses and help us to advise and guide our students. While the literature on this topic is vast, there are a few key pieces of experimental work that everyone who designs or changes courses should know
The characteristics of effective feedback.
Recommended techniques to use in Blackboard tests, to increase the confidence you have in the security, reliability or validity of online assessments.
In this video James Brooks walks through how he adapted his existing exam into an ‘open book’ format.
A step-by-step guide on how to build an online test in Blackboard for use in an examination.