What is Draft Coach? Part of the University’s Turnitin licence, Draft Coach is an add-in to Microsoft Word that produces a Turnitin Similarity Report based on the text in the document. It allows students to independently generate a Similarity Report to check their work and give them feedback as they write prior to submitting assignments to Blackboard. They can run the check 3 times per document. Draft Coach uses the […]
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Microsoft Forms is an online survey and quiz tool from Microsoft, available to the whole University and managed/supported by DTS. If using the tool for teaching & learning, CQSD TEL can provide support and guidance. The following guide will help you get started: Accessing MS Forms Creating a new Form or quiz Sharing a Form Viewing
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Rubrics are a scoring tool you can use to mark Blackboard assessments, which can help you evaluate students’ work on a specific scale, against certain criteria. You can start creating a rubric from the Gradebook, or when creating an assessment. It is possible to copy rubrics between courses using the copy function, see our guide
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Once you’ve associated a rubric with an assignment, test, or a marked discussion or journal, you can use it to mark the students’ work. Please note that you can currently associate only one rubric to each item. You can’t associate a rubric to an assignment with questions at this point, so you should add/create the
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You can access data and a variety of reports under the Analytics tab in your Blackboard course to gain insights into your students’ performance, engagement levels, and interaction with course content. The Analytics tab is on the navigation bar at the top of your course page: Under Course Activity, you’ll see a list of your
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You can monitor a student’s participation in your Blackboard course using the Student Activity log, which you can access through the Analytics tab on the Blackboard Navigation bar, and clicking on a student’s name to enter the Student Dashboard: Once in the Student Dashboard, click the Activity Log tab: You can see the following information
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