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Online Marking & eAssessment
Blayn Parkinson │ Blended Learning Enhancement Officer
Jisc/QCA definition of eAssessment
e-Assessment is the end-to-end electronic assessment processes
where ICT is used for the presentation of assessment activity, and
the recording of responses. This includes the end-to-end
assessment process from the perspective of learners, tutors,
learning establishments, awarding bodies and regulators, and the
general public.
JISC, Effective Practice with eAssessment (2007)

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Session Outline
eAssessment
Why Online
Minimum Expectations/Baselining
Turnitin
Originality Reports
Blackboard and Grade Centre
Marking Workflow
Submission Restrictions

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1. Specifying
2. Setting
3. Supporting
4. Submitting
5. Marking and
production of
feedback
6.Recording
grades
7. Returning
marks and
feedback
8. Reflecting
eAssessment
JISC Assessment
and
Feedback Lifecycle
https://goo.gl/94Mhts

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1. Specifying
2. Setting
3. Supporting
4. Submitting
5. Marking and
production of
feedback
6.Recording
grades
7. Returning
marks and
feedback
8. Reflecting
eAssessment
JISC Assessment
and
Feedback Lifecycle
https://goo.gl/94Mhts

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eAssessment
Why?

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Reasons for
considering the use
of e-submission and
e-marking include:
Flexibility and convenience
Saving paper and reducing printing costs
Tracking submissions and progress (for staff and students)
Use of text-matching software (Turnitin), to help identify plagiarism
Process Management: One central, secure and familiar system (Blackboard)
Easy archiving
Provision of clear, timely and easily accessible feedback
Opportunities for innovative and engaging feedback
Greater consistency e.g. comment banks or rubrics
No large quantities of paper
Access marking from anywhere
Markers can re-edit their feedback in a document as they go through it
Why Online?
JISC has worked with
several institutions on
Electronic Assessment
Management (EAM) and
evaluated these projects.
They have summarised
some of the benefits for
students and benefits for
staff.

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Good practice for online submission
Good practice

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Clearly Signpost in the VLE where students need to go to find...
Good practice
Submission point(s)
Assignment & Submission Criteria
Marking Criteria
Mitigating Circumstances
Support and Guides
Each Module will need a ‘My Grades’ linkTip:
•During a lecture, bring up
the VLE and show the
submission point and any
supporting material and
resources that go with it.

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Good practice
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An example of module design with key information clearly signposted.
Tip:
•If modules have
a similar layout it
makes it easier
for students to
navigate.

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Turnitin
Turnitin checks text-based assignments for information
copied from websites, electronic journals and the work
of other students. Staff can create a Turnitin submission
area in VLE modules/organisations.
Student Guides
eAssessment Survival Guide
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/students/assess/eassessment/
Submit a Turnitin paper
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/students/assess/turnitin/
How to get your Turnitin receipt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK-2L-DN6A (Youtube)

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Student Submission

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Turnitin in the VLE
Example submission
point
1. Enter your details into the
appropriate text fields.
2. Choose the file you wish
to upload .
3. Click ‘Upload’ to submit.
Students View 1.
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Setting up a submission point

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Turnitin in the VLE
Staff View
Optional Settings
When creating a submission area, you should
review the optional settings. To do this, click the
Optional Settings button on the new assignment
page.
1. 2.

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Turnitin in the VLE
Key optional settings
1. Allow Submission after due date
2. Generate Originality Report for submission.
3. When you want the originality report
generating
4. Do you want the students to see the originality
report (Should be set to No)
5. Revel the grade only on the ‘Post Date’ (not
before).
6. Do you want to use anonymous marking
(Yes/No).
7. Do you want the submitted papers adding to
the Turnitin repository (Yes/No)
8. Where to attach a rubric to the assignment.
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File Type
 MS Word (.doc/.docx)*, WordPerfect (.wpd), PostScript (.ps/.eps), HTML, RTF (.rtf), OpenOffice (.odt)**
 plain text (.txt) and Google Drive's 'Docs' format.
 PowerPoint files (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps).
Note:
* MS Word - Office 365/OneDrive files aren't currently accepted.
** Open Office Text: Turnitin will not accept .odt files created and downloaded from Google Docs online, or
".doc" files created using OpenOffice.
File size limits are:
 40MB (text and mixed media),
 2MB for text only files,
 Max 400 pages in length.
Browser Restrictions
 Turnitin no longer supports Internet Explorer 10 or older
Turnitin Restrictions
Guide:
Managing documents file sizes for submission (https://goo.gl/y3WW7q)

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Originality Reports

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Originality Reports
YouTube Video: Originality Reports -
How to interpret them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
f9w_qsb-dP8

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Turnitin
Turnitin checks text-based assignments for information
copied from websites, electronic journals and the work
of other students. Staff can create a Turnitin submission
area in VLE modules/organisations.
Staff Guides
UoL VLE Support Turnitin Guide
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/staff/assess/turnitin/
YouTube Video: Grade a Turnitin Assignment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZp18N5fy4
YouTube Video: How Turnitin works with Blackboard Grade Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjXWvCsGgM
YouTube Video: Originality Reports - How to interpret them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9w_qsb-dP8

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Grade Centre

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VLE & the Grade Centre
Terminology
 Grade Centre – Blackboard
 Grade Mark - Turnitin
 Grade Book – Bespoke application, Banner interface with Blackboard (in development)
The Grade Centre provides access to student
submissions and other gradable activity.
UoL VLE Guide: Grade Centre
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/staff/assess/gradecentre/
Blackboard’s own guide: Grade Centre (external site)

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VLE & the Grade Centre
Smart Views
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From the Grade Centre
1. Click Manage > Smart Views
2. Create Smart View
3. Any ‘Smart View’ stared as a ‘Favorited’ will
display under the ‘Full Grade Centre’ link in the
left hand menu
Guides
UoL: Smart View Guide.
Blackboard: Smart View Guide

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VLE & the Grade Centre
Entering Grades
From the Full Grade Centre or a Smart View
1. Grade Centre > Full Grade Centre or Smart
View
2. Roll cursor over submission to grade
3. Click contextual menu button > View Grade
Details/Attempt
or
Click into grade box to enter grades
Guides
UoL: What is the Grade Centre?
Blackboard: Grade Centre
Blackboard: Entering Grades

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Marking with an iPad

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Using an iPad
1. Log into the VLE and go to Organisational Tool>Turnitin Assignments
2. Practice Marking on the desktop computer
3. Generate an iPad/mobile Access code
4. Switch to an iPad and try marking on that (don’t forget to sync once finished)
5. Create a custom Marking List and export (email it to yourself) and import
Desktop and iPad

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Using an iPad
 Turnitin Webcast: Grade Anywhere -- Turnitin for iPad (YouTube)
 Marking-with-Turnitin-app (YouTube)
 Turnitin on the iPad - University of Kent (PDF)
Other Links
https://youtu.be/sNcucatlw-c

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Faculty of Environment: Blended Learning web site
https://digifoe.wordpress.com/guidance/assessment-feedback-marking/
VLE Organisations With Assessment Information
 Geography, SoG Staff: L&T Information
 SEE Staff: L&T Information
 Transport Studies
Student Education Service
http://ses.leeds.ac.uk/info/22169/assessment-related_policies
Resources

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Questions