Assessment & Marking

What to consider when setting up online assignments.

This video shows step-by-step instructions on how to add inline feedback, annotations, audio feedback and Quickmarks when marking a Turnitin assignment.

Guidance for staff on planning and setting up an assignment-based online exam.

Giving our students feedback can have a profound impact on how they learn and how they feel about their studies. It is arguably one of the most important things we can do to help our students improve their performance in summative assessment (Broadfoot & Black 2004). Yet it is easy to brush past the practical […]

Guidance to help you prepare and design your peer assessment activity

An overview of the benefits of using peer assessment in teaching and learning.

This page considers options for reducing marking workload.

This page looks at how to get information from students to help you improve your taught units or your teaching more generally.

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful time saver for academics as they are quick to mark, but they are only useful to the learners if they are planned well.  Here are some pointers for you to consider when designing and implementing multiple choice quizzes, whether on paper or in Blackboard.

Providing feedback to students can be one of the most effective ways to help them learn. How, what and when feedback is delivered is key. Poor quality feedback provided at the wrong time can do more harm than good.