The document outlines Professor Gilly Salmon's Carpe Diem method for designing assessments. The 6-stage method begins with writing a blueprint, then creating a storyboard. A prototype is built, checked against reality, and reviewed/adjusted. The final stage is an action plan. Carpe Diem aligns learning, teaching, and assessment, and emphasizes designing assessments with the desired outcomes and end goals in mind from the start.

1. Carpe diem for
assessment
Start with the End
in Mind!
Professor Gilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor
Learning Transformations
www.gillysalmon.com
Melbourne 31st July2 013

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12 years of research into achieving
collaborative learning design
Outcomes based learning,
:teaching and assessment for a
digital age
A practical
response to the
essential truth that
developing
learning &
assessment with
technology is
ecological

3. Scaffolding- for assessment as
well as knowledge and learning
E-tivities- aligning & integrating
learning activity assessment &
feedback
Carpe Diem – designing with the
end in mind
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E-tivities invitation

12. Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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13. Learning outcomes…
Feedback…Assessment
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14. Stage 1:
Write Blueprint
Stage 2:
Create Storyboard
Stage 5:
Review &
Adjust
Stage 3 Build
Prototype
Stage 4
Check Reality
Stage 6
Action Plan
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15. Stage 1:
Write Blueprint
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17. Mission statement:
Think: this course is for whom > to help them
achieve what >
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20. Stage 2:
Create Storyboard
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Story Board transferred to Popplet
Thanks to University of Northampton.

30. Stage 3: Build
Prototype
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32. Stage 4:Check
Reality
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33. Stage 4:Check
Reality
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34. Stage 5:
Review &
Adjust
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35. Stage 6
Action Plan
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36. Stage 1:
Write Blueprint
Stage 2:
Create Storyboard
Stage 5:
Review &
Adjust
Stage 3 Build
Prototype
Stage 4
Check Reality
Stage 6
Action Plan
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37. Some principles learnt from
Carpe Diem
 To change assessment think & act:
 Creatively with evidence as a ‘spark’
 Collaboratively...with structure
 In Alignment with learning & teaching
changes
 Always with the End in Mind.
 To build capacity & capability across the
institution
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39. Thanks & acknowledgements
References
Carpe Diem is based on original research by Prof Gilly Salmon at the Universities of
Glasgow Caledonian, Bournemouth and Anglia Ruskin. It was developed further
at the Universities of Leicester, Southern Queensland, Northampton and
Swinburne University of Technology.
See E-tivities 2nd Edition 2013 www.e-tivities.com
Web site for Carpe Diem gillysalmon.com/carpe-diem
Thanks to Swinburne University of Technology’s Learning Technology forum during
2013
Thanks to the participants in the Carpe Diem Facilitators Day at Swinburne ,
Sarawak, Malaysia on 8th May 2013.
Many thanks to Prof Alejandro Armellini and colleagues at the University of
Northampton for sharing their examples of a Carpe Diem workshop in action in
July 2013
Carpe Diem and 5 stage model images by Rod Angood www.visiondirecting.com
www.e-tivities.com – 2nd edition published 2013, chapter 5 gives full details of Carpe
Diem.
www.e-moerating.com
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40. References and
acknowledgements
 blueprints
 http://blog.landrover.com/home/land-rover-blueprint-
desktop-wallpaper-3853.html#axzz2TbkOjbko
 http://www.accessbuscollege.com/blueprint.html
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindwalker/172433244/
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