Key Topic: Marking and Feedback
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Assessment & Feedback
Collection of Assessment guides. i.e. Creating assignments, Managing permissions, and Marking & Feedback
Filtering and Applying Categories to the Gradebook
The Ultra Gradebook has filtering features which allow users to filter their gradebook view by multiple variables, such as individual users, groups, items, and categories. You can also filter the Gradebook to only show students on merged courses. This offers more flexibility for users wanting to get a focused view of their Gradebook. Applied filters
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Add a Text Item to the Gradebook
A Text Item allows you to directly enter text in a Gradebook column of up to 32 characters per student. It is can be added in the Markable Items and Marks tab. Use it to write a short note or keyword to help administer assessment, for example, the name of a second marker. The column:
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Creating and Managing Blackboard Rubrics
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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Creating Grading Forms
Turnitin Grading Forms are simple rubrics that allow an instructor to give free-form feedback (and, optionally, scores) against a predefined set of criteria. They can be created and managed in the rubric manager, accessed via Turnitin Settings or the rubric panel in the Feedback Studio. via Feedback Studio 1. To download a rubric, go into
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Key Topic: Rubrics
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Turnitin Quick Submit
Quick Submit allows staff to upload a document to TurnitinUK and receive a similarity report. Login to Turnitin UK There are two Turnitin functions that are not available via Blackboard – Bulk upload and Quick Submit. For all other actions open your Turnitin submission points via Blackboard. You will need to login using the email
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Pass/Fail modules
Pass/Fail modules can be set up in RISIS and a Mark Schema created on Blackboard Ultra courses to allow for the Mark Approval and Transfer tool to be used. Numerical marks transferred to RISIS will be automatically converted into the appropriate P or F mark. Create a Pass/Fail schema Step 1: Navigate to the Gradebook
EMA Integration: What will the Integration create in Blackboard Ultra?
There are 24 different Modes of Submission defined in RISIS. You can see the full list, with details of what the integration will create, on our Modes of Submission page. In most cases, integration creates only a column in the Gradebook. For example, if Turnitin is selected as the Mode of Submission, the integration will
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Blackboard Assignment – Two marker function
The Two markers per student function in Blackboard Assignment allows for a workflow which requires submissions to be reconciled, or second marked, before being available to post to students. This function is sometimes referred to a parallel marking. Restrictions Disabled assignment functions When Two markers per student is selected in the Assignment settings the following
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