Use of Mahara has proven beneficial in terms of improving student engagement and efficiency savings for the course tutors (joint module leaders Vera Macdonald & Anne Campbell) as traditional posters and presentations were replaced with Mahara e-portfolios. As this module has >80 students per trimester the primary objective was to …
Turnitin released an upgrade to their service called Feedback Studio which combines originality checking and GradeMark in a unified interface. The new interface does not change how Turnitin assignments are created in Moodle, or how students submit their work and access their feedback. The interface has been redesigned to make …
An interesting little issue cropped up last week when using a PG Scale rubric in Turnitin. The correct rubric had been attached to the assignment – using the 16 point scale – but some of the settings in Moodle hadn’t been adjusted fully before marking had started. This resulted in …
Overall WebPA scores are an average of the WebPA scores received for each question, which are values above or below 1 depending on how positively students were rated in relative to their other group members. If group members give each other the same marks (high or low) then everyone gets …
Organising Grade Items can make your calculations easier and improve student understanding of their User Report. As described in the Gradebook and User Report page, when each activity is added to a Moodle course a corresponding Grade Item is created. To begin with each of these will be placed within the Courses default category, …
Using a custom rubric in Grademark does throw up a few foibles to consider when moving from a grade descriptor or marking sheet. This post looks at the numbers that are used in order with consideration on how to adjust scale points to give a better alignment to midpoint of …