This is a comprehensive list of all the step-by-step and ‘how to’ guides on e-submission, online marking and feedback, internal and external moderation, use of marking tools, comments and rubrics.
Guidance Documentation↓
This section has a number of documents that describe the processes involved in the Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA).
- Roles and Responsibilities Document
- About the Assessment Submission Details Form (guidance for Programme Administrators)
- Assessment Submission Details Form Template (Academics to complete)
- Assignment Set up information spreadsheet from RISIS (Administrators to complete)
- Student eSubmission Instructions at point of submission Template
- Student eSubmission Information for Handbooks and Briefcases Template
TEL Online Tutorials (Self-directed tutorials on UoRLearn)
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Selecting the right tool for your Assessment↓
These diagrams will assist you in deciding on appropriate marking options where there are multiple options for submission:
This article lists types of assessment, and shows the correct settings for Programme Administrators to use in RISIS and Blackboard:
Advice for adapting assessments to blended learning:
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EMA Integration↓
This section lists all the materials available to help you with the processes in place as part of the Integration between Blackboard and RISIS.
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Turnitin Assignment↓
This section lists all the materials available to help you in the process of using Turnitin Assignments.
Setting up a Turnitin Assignment↓
Accessing and Managing Turnitin submissions↓
Marking using the annotation features of Feedback Studio↓
Previous version of Turnitin – not to be used beyond 31st July 2022↓
- Guide: Setting up a Turnitin assignment
- Screencast: Setting up a Turnitin submission point
- Screencast: Creating a Post Deadline submission point
- Guide: Access and view Turnitin Assignments
- Screencast: Managing Turnitin submissions: key working practices
- Guide: Using Roster Sync
- Guide: Submitting work to Turnitin on behalf of a student
QuickMarks↓
Providing Feedback Summary and Grade↓
Audio feedback↓
Rubrics and Grading Forms↓
- Best practice when Using Rubrics: Rubric Creation Guide, Rubric Review Tool and Rubric Bank
- Turnitin rubrics and Grading Forms
- Screencast: What are Turnitin rubrics, how are they used for marking
- Screencast: How to create a Turnitin rubric
- Create and import a Turnitin rubric in Excel
- Create a Grading form
- Screencast: Attaching and exporting a rubric
- Attaching a rubric or grading form
- How to import and export rubrics
- Duplicating a Turnitin rubric
- Screencast : How to enter rubric feedback in Turnitin
- Use a rubric to provide feedback summary and grades
Similarity Report↓
- A staff guide to viewing the similarity report
- A Staff guide to interpreting a Turnitin similarity report
- Similarity report – access and view matches
- Hidden Text Flags
- Screencast: Quick overview of the Turnitin similarity tool
- Screencast: Viewing instances of matches text in a Turnitin Similarity report
- Screencast: Viewing sources of matched text in a Turnitin similarity report
- Screencast: Controlling filters and exclusions in a Turnitin similarity report
Marking anonymously in Turnitin↓
Handling Multiple Markers ↓
How to mark online when no submission is made↓
Downloading assignments↓
Making marks available to Students↓
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Blackboard Assignment↓
This section lists all the materials available to help you in the process of using Blackboard Assignments.
Setting up a Blackboard Assignment – Individual or Group↓
Creating Groups↓
Accessing Blackboard assignment submissions to mark (Grade Centre / Needs Grading)↓
Marking using the annotation features in Blackboard ↓
Feedback to Learner and Grade↓
Rubrics↓
- Best practice when Using Rubrics: Rubric Creation Guide, Rubric Review Tool and Rubric Bank →
- Screencast: Choosing a Blackboard rubric
- Screencast: How to create a Blackboard rubric
- Create a Blackboard Rubric
- Screencast: Managing Blackboard rubrics
- Screencast: Attaching a Blackboard Rubric
- Attaching a Blackboard rubric
- Mark using a rubric
Save draft / Submit↓
Anonymous assignments↓
Marking group assignments↓
How to mark online when no submission is made↓
Handling Multiple Markers↓
Making marks available to Students↓
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Blackboard Tests↓
- Using Blackboard Tests for in-class Tests
- Using Blackboard Tests for Exams
- Creating and deploying Tests
- Removing unintentional text formatting
- Embed Audio and Video Files in Questions
- Reusable question pools
- Edit a question from a question pool
- Copying tests between courses
- Creating test questions offline
- Quality checking your test
- Timer, Auto-submit and force completion settings
- Using negative scoring in tests
- Making a test available to students
- Availability Exceptions
- Taking tests and surveys with the Blackboard app
- Clearing and submitting ‘in progress’ test attempts
- Test access log
- Marking and moderating Blackboard Tests
- Marking File Response questions
- Viewing student scores
- Downloading test results
- Analyse data from a Blackboard Test
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Other assessment tools & activities
(Blogs, Journals, Wikis, Discussion Boards)↓
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Managing Assessments in the Blackboard Grade Centre↓
- Creating a column in the Grade centre
- Hiding a Grade centre column from students
- Using column organisation
- Using Smart Views
- Using calculated columns
- Colour code the Grade Centre
- Include Turnitin assignments in a Weighted column
- Push marks into the Grade Centre – Sync Grades
- Sending reminders/non submitter emails to students (Turnitin)
- Sending reminders/non submitter emails to students (Blackboard Assignment)
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Internal Moderation↓
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External Examiners↓
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