This document discusses effective strategies for providing feedback to students using Blackboard. It emphasizes that feedback should be goal oriented, tangible, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent. It demonstrates how to provide feedback for assignments, discussion boards, and exams using features in Blackboard like rubrics, discussion threads, grade reports, and annotations. The document provides examples of using feedback for announcements, video, and audio as well. It highlights tips for making feedback timely, ongoing, and consistent such as establishing routines, connecting grades to rubrics, and using a "feedback sandwich" approach.

1. Feedback Strategies
Leveraging Blackboard for Continuous Communication
Faculty Institute – Spring 2018

2. Meet your Facilitators
Wendy Bjerke
Clinical Professor
Exercise Science
Nicole Trudell
Manager of
Instructional Technology

3. What is Effective Feedback?
• Goal Oriented
• Tangible and Transparent
• Actionable
• User-Friendly
• Timely
• Ongoing
• Consistent

4. Assignment Feedback
DEMO
New Box View
Rubrics

5. Discussion Board Feedback
DEMO
Discussion Board
Threads

6. Exam Feedback
DEMO
Immediate
Feedback
Overall
Feedback

7. Other Feedback Methods
EXAMPLES
Announcement Feedback
Video Feedback
Audio Feedback

9. Quotes Versus
Facts!
Quotes:
“Training your body to improve
your spiritual health doesn’t
necessarily require you engaged in
a formal practice”. (Donnatelle,
2013, pg. 59)
“The importance of people’s
spirituality to their wellness and
health and healing has been widely
acknowledged”. (Donnatelle, 2013,
pg. 57)
“Much has been written about the
negative effects of stress.”
(Donnatelle, 2013, pg. 70)
Facts:
Over 15 million adults participate in yoga
(Donnatelle, 2013).
Over 90% of 3500 higher education students
surveyed reported believing in spiritual or
religious entities (Donatelle, 2013).
Over one third of deaths have been directly or
indirectly associated with stress in the United
States (Donnatelle, 2013).
“Try to avoid using too many direct
quotations. Instead, paraphrase in
order to show a deeper understanding
and engagement with the work.”
(Writing Center, 2015)

10. Goal Oriented
• Communicate the “actual” goal of the assignment (in addition to
the instructions and rubric)
• Example: Introductory Post, Exercise Physiology
Introduce yourself. Include your interests
related to exercise physiology. Support
your post with 2 peer reviewed sources.
Goal: Baseline Scholarly Writing Assignment

11. Actionable
• “Feedback Focus”
• Peer Reviewed Sources
• Responding to Peers and Instructors
• Quotes VS Facts
• How to review your exam

12. User Friendly
• Grade Report
• Track Changes/Point Comments
• Summary Feedback
• General + Specific Rubrics
• Announcements (Sent Via Email)
• Discussion Board
“Kelly! You provided a great example of a fact based response. I have a better
understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic status and access to
dental care as a result.”

13. Timely
• Feedback should be provided in advance of subsequent assignments.
• Assignments should be chronological.
• Be respectful of your time and your student’s time..

14. Ongoing and Consistent
• Establish a Routine
• Grade Report Connected to a Rubric
• Grade Summary
• Aggregate Summary
• Examples after the assignment
• Consider Assignment Weights
• Light to Heavier
• “Feedback Sandwich”
• Use of Positive Feedback

15. Questions?