Overview of the Digital Assessment Team work

1. THE DIGITAL ASSESSMENT TEAM
Digital Assessment Team –
What do we do?
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2. Digital Assessment Team
Marieke Guy
Head of Digital
Assessment
Lene-Marie Kjems
Institute of Education &
Laws
Isobel Bowditch
Medical Sciences, Brain
Sciences, Engineering
John Spittles
Senior Learning
Technologist
Nadia Hussain
Learning Technologist
Possible secondment
Other faculties
• Digital Assessment Advisors (DAAs)
• Learning Technologists (LTs)
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3. Faculty support
• Originally each Digital Assessment Advisor (DAA) was responsible for 2 or 3 faculties
• Work with Faculty Learning Technology Leads (FLTLs) and others to understand complexity
of faculty
• Promotion of AssessmentUCL and other appropriate assessment approaches to faculty
• Attendance of faculty meetings and networking with faculty staff
• Support for design, creation and delivery of departmental assessments
• Delivery of landscape reports 2021-23
• Bespoke faculty and departmental training e.g. Institute of Risk and Disaster Recovery
departmental onboarding
• Identification of needs in faculties (includes comprehension of ASER & TESTA reports etc.)
to inform AssessmentUCL enhancements and direction of travel
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4. Training package
• Hands-on training for users – Managers, Assessors
(markers), Reviewers (moderators) and Authors
• Maintenance of wiki ‘Resource centre’ (includes
guidance, recommendations for departments, video
guides and interactive user guides)
• Creation of supporting visualisations
• Creation of practice assessments on the sandbox
site to support staff training
Assessment UCL training & support
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Support
• Investigate and resolve support queries from
departments – emails, Teams calls
• AssessmentUCL drop in sessions
• Develop AssessmentUCL support model for staff and
students
• Report and resolve technical Wiseflow issues with
UNIwise supplier
• Feed into enhancement roadmap of platform

5. • Collaborate with product team
to improve AssessmentUCL –
conduit between end user in
faculties and product
• Rationalise and maintain
required enhancements list
• Support new areas of
investigation of AssessmentUCL
functionality e.g. lockdown
browser, new flow types etc.
• Co-ordinate and carry out
validation testing of new
platform functionality
• Analysis of staff and student
surveys
AssessmentUCL improvements
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6. Working with Arena and others to develop staff professional development in
broader assessment areas (see Arena Events):
Other assessment workshops
ISOBEL
• Designing effective Multiple Choice
Questions
• Rubrics: removing the glitch in the
assessment matrix?
• Designing assessment academic integrity
• Auditing assessment on your programme
(for Programme Leaders workshop series)
• Enriching assessment and feedback
practice (for Module Leads) Image by Jernej Furman on Flickr

7. • Academic integrity project – student and staff focus groups
• Facilitate and collect case studies on creative assessment practice
• Digital Assessment at UCL blog:
• Events: Jisc Digifest, UCL Education conference, Assessment in HE conference,
Wisecon, Jisc rethinking assessment event, Russell Group Collective event,
collaboration with King’s College London
• Investigate other assessment areas and tools at UCL
• Assessment innovation and future work e.g. AI
• Student comms – videos
Outreach and engagement
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8. • Understanding of other tools available and their use in relation to
assessment
• Supporting staff with choices on tools through online guidance
• Support for Turnitin and Moodle
• Testing of Moodle plugins
• Investigation of new tools e.g., draft coach, Graide etc.
Support for other UCL assessment tools
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9. Quiz
&
Poll
Video
Institutional
Departmental
File
upload
Portfolio
Group
work
Support for other UCL assessment tools
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10. • Workload is consistent throughout the year
• No ‘downtime’
What does our year look like?
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Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
Project Project Project Project
Central Assessments
Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint
Business as Usual
Departmental assessments (formative & summative)