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Presenter: Joseph Gliddon Organisation: Bristol University Description: This session explores work implemented over several years at the University of Bristol to develop a scalable workflow for coursework assessment and feedback online. The workflow combines technical and pedagogic planning to support lasting cultural change. This uses Blackboard packages, which can also support consistent provision of other activities across multiple courses. This work was done to address key challenges in this area, including: -meeting complex requirements in a consistent way -needing a standard approach which is scalable across multiple courses -ownership of the process by Schools to ensure sustainability -easily updating content across many courses with minimum editing Session covers policy, pedagogic approaches, engaging academic & administrative leads, and the process.

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Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard,
Groningen
Roger Gardner and Joseph Gliddon
Technology enhanced learning and education
development team
www.bris.ac.uk/tel
26 April 2016
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About this session
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• Rationale
• People and planning
• Package contents and demo
• Approaches to feedback
• Support and training
• Impact, challenges, lessons
• Ideas for the future

About Bristol
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About Bristol
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Question for discussion
What things would be useful to
have the same across multiple
Blackboard courses?
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Rationale
• Consistency
• Better management of complex workflows
• Scalability
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People
• Important to have academic and admin leads
• Agree roles and responsibilities at the start
Roles and responsibilities template
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Project plan
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Planning
template
Requirements
example

What’s in a package?
• Instructions
• Checklist quiz
• Assignments (with rubric attached)
• Extension group
• Adaptive releases
• Grade Centre columns
• Student access to My Grades
• Link to upload moderation forms
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Demo and how to copy package
• Instructions for bulk copy
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Support and training
• Responsibilities agreed in advance
• Separate session for admin teams and markers
• Build capacity by identifying and training up
leads in admin team
• Presence of academic and admin leads needed
as questions often about policies and processes
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Limits of packages
• Some things require post import tasks e.g.
setting due dates, or creating Smartviews for
multiple markers
• Limits on certain aspects of reusable items e.g.
titles
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Impact – growth in marks / feedback
online
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Challenges – packages in general
• To package or not to package? (extent of
support for minor differences?)
• Reliance on Schools to provide accurate
information
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Challenges – electronic management
of assessment (EMA)
• Difference in the user experience when using
rubrics compared with inline grading
• Limitations in anonymous marking functionality
• Demand for more and better marking tools on
mobile devices e.g. mark offline and sync
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Question for discussion
What uses might you have for
packages?
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Other examples at Bristol
• Engineering support forum
• Reading lists
• Student rep spaces
• Contextual variables
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Key lessons learnt
• Spend time nailing the requirements
• Test imports with small numbers first
• Get sign off of data from the School
• Build capacity in Schools to be first point of call
for support calls and to maintain packages
• If changing several aspects, it is quicker to clear
out packages and import new ones
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Ideas for the future
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Questions
Contacts:
roger.gardner@bristol.ac.uk
joseph.gliddon@bristol.ac.uk
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