Running a mid semester survey can be an effective way to get useful feedback from students in a timely fashion, to assist anyone keen to adopt such an approach a Mentimeter template has been created with some suggested questions and settings. Staff are free to access this and customise the template to suit, obviously alternative formats and technologies can be used to achieve a similar results.
A standard practice across the University is to ask students for their feedback on a course unit at the end of the semester. This can be a frustrating arrangement for both Staff and Students as by the time feedback is available there is no opportunity to make any adjustments that may benefit the cohort providing the feedback.
James Brooks has created two short videos that summarise the research on effective feedback and how we can improve our delivery of feedback.
A guide to setting up and managing Turnitin PeerMark assignments.
The addition of a PeerMark assignment within Turnitin allows staff to allocate submissions to another student for peer review.
Martin Simmons, Senior Lecturer in MACE, explains how he uses Turnitin Quickmarks and Turnitin rubrics, to provide detailed and consistent feedback to students. Utilising these tools additionally supports Martin’s work with GTA markers.
This video shows step-by-step instructions on how to download grades and feedback for a Blackboard assignment.
This video shows step-by-step instructions on how to attach a feedback file when marking a Blackboard assignment.
This video shows how to add inline feedback and annotations when marking a Blackboard assignment.
This video shows how to add audio or video feedback when marking an assignment in Blackboard.