Tag: eAssessment
Creating assessments Assessments are created from pre-existing questions, so you will need to have access to at least some questions before creating an assessment. However, it is simple to add in extra questions later. Guide to creating an assessment It is important to take a moment to set the options on your test correctly. Otherwise, [...]
Learning Central includes two tools for creating tests and surveys. This document describes a simpler tool that allows instructors to create an online graded test, as well as ungraded self-assessment tests. You can use a variety of types of questions (multiple choice, true/false, matching, short answer, etc.). A more sophisticated tool, Questionmark Perception, provides a [...]
Creating Online Tests (PDF)In Questionmark, creating questions and assessments are two entirely seperate processes. You create the questions first, and then when creating your assessments, you chose which question you want to draw in. This means that if you need to change a question, for example in the light of some new research, or a change on professional [...]
William Hook An exciting new development in technology to support learning, teaching and assessment is being rolled out at Cardiff University.
The Grade Centre allows both you and your students to manage their grades and track their progress. Online tests can be set to populate the Grade Centre automatically, and you can create an entry to add grades and feedback from any assessment you set your students (whether an essay, laboratory practical, examination or anything else). [...]
Entering and Viewing Grades (PDF)For each assessment you can have a column in the grade centre to record and distribute students’ grades and feedback. Columns can be automatically created for assessments you have set up within CUE (for online tests, assignments submitted online, assessed blogs or wikis, etc.) but you can add a column for anything else you choose. [...]
Grade Centre Columns (PDF)Grading periods allows you to divide the Grade Centre into blocks of time, such as semesters. It can then show only the columns that belong to a particular grading period, calculate a total or average grade for a grading period or create a performance report for a grading period. This tutorial shows you how to [...]
Grade Centre Grading Periods (PDF)Instructors can create printable reports for their modules and students. Reports can display all or a number of students, groups; columns or calculated columns, a Grading Period, or all of the columns in a category. For example an instructor can create a report, like a progress report, that contains all of the grades from a [...]
Grade Centre Reports (PDF)In Grade Centre a grading schema defines the values of letter grades and customised grade symbols. This can be used if you want to display a grade as letters A, B, B+ or Pass/Fail based on the student’s score. This guide demonstrates how you can change the predefined grading schema so that you can determine [...]
Grading Schemas (PDF)This session introduced TurnitinUK’s Grademark online marking tool, demonstrating it’s integration with CUE (Blackboard). The session gave a hands-on opportunity to experience the tools available within GradeMark designed to help speed up the marking process.
GradeMark is part of the Turnitin suite and is a tool that can be used for providing feedback on assignments that have been submitted in Learning Central as a TurnitinUK assignment.
Online Marking with Grademark (PDF)It is possible to deliver your Questionmark assessments through Blackboard. This process is not yet as smooth and simple as would be desired, and there are some important things to note. Pitfalls in delivering QMP assessments through Blackboard In order to be use QMPs reporting functionality, you need to assigned to the correct group Assigning [...]
This session provided an introduction to authoring questions and assessment with Questionmark Perception’s browser authoring tool. By the end of the session, delegates were able to create questions, use them in assessments, deploy those assessments in Blackboard, or make them available via the Internet.
If you maintain a spreadsheet of grades outside CUE you can upload the grades into Grade Centre so students can access their grades via CUE. Instructors can also download Grade Centre data to a spreadsheet for offline viewing or further statistical analysis. Instructors can select specific data to download, or download the complete Grade Centre [...]
Uploading to Grade Centre (PDF)