Shirin Franklyn, Author at Technology Enhanced Learning Support for Staff

Turnitin Draft Coach

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. Draft Coach uses the new Enhanced Similarity Report to help students understand the matches they see in their […]

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Microsoft Forms for Teaching and Learning

Microsoft Forms, Third Party Tools

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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Creating and Managing Blackboard Rubrics

Assessment & Feedback, Electronic Management of Assessment

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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Marking with Blackboard Rubrics

Blackboard Learn Ultra

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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Course Analytics and Reports

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Reports and Analytics

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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The Student Activity Log

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Reports and Analytics

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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Author name: Shirin Franklyn

Turnitin Draft Coach

Microsoft Forms for Teaching and Learning

Creating and Managing Blackboard Rubrics

Marking with Blackboard Rubrics

Course Analytics and Reports

The Student Activity Log