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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment Lifecycle

The journey of an assessment

An assessment passes through many hands and even more systems on its way from setting to recording the final mark. Partially because it is so central to teaching and learning, it’s a process that seems unusually complex, and involving many touch points in its electronic form. We’ve sequenced the whole trajectory of a typical assessment …

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Outcomes of the feedback hub solution development

Moving the management of assessment online has opened up new possibilities and expectations around the role of assessment in learning. One of these is the use of holistic feedback; feedback that comes from across the years of a degree programme, and not just the modules a learner is enrolled in at the moment. History: the […]

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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment

Developing assessment practice with holistic feedback

One of the outcomes of the EMA co-design project is the interest in holistic feedback on assessment. It’s clear to a lot of people in the sector that it’d be beneficial for learners, markers, tutors and others if assessment took in a complete view of a learner’s journey, and if feedback engaged the learner better, and also […]

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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment Product Features/Comparisons

A brief typology of feedback hubs

As part of the Jisc’s feedback hub feasibility project, I’ve started to look at systems that can present feedback in a holistic, programme wide way to learners and teachers. Having talked to the creators of a number of these hubs, there seem to be three broad types, which I’ll outline here. One of the outcomes […]

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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment Lifecycle

From challenges to solutions

On 9th December we held a workshop involving many of the contributors to this blog along with other staff from HEIs to take a service design approach to addressing the EMA challenges you have identified. It was a lively and participative day that resulted in 30 solution ideas. The ideas were discussed and voted on […]

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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment

From challenges to solutions

On 9th December we held a workshop involving many of the contributors to this blog along with other staff from HEIs to take a service design approach to addressing the EMA challenges you have identified. It was a lively and participative day that resulted in 30 solution ideas. The ideas were discussed and voted on […]