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Marking with Marky Mark – Managing the marking period stress free
Yes, it’s that time of year again… Exams are in full flow, the academic year is beginning to come to a close (for students perhaps!) and that means one thing… marking! It can be a stressful time for tutors with the (virtual) mountains of papers requiring a critical eye cast over them, for this reason…
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Turnitin Feedback Studio: Ready for marking
As we are swiftly heading on through this semester and towards end of term assessments we thought it would be helpful to once again highlight marking through Turnitin. Turnitin recently released Feedback Studio; an updated and revamped way of marking papers with some nifty new features such as page navigation and Grading/Similarity layers. Access to…
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Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas
Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, PlayStation 4 and elf onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! During December our team of Student Advisors will be available,…
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Technology Supported Learning – A Wright Rubric
Andrea Wright – FLM3023 (CW1) This summer, for the first time, Film Studies moved over to marking using Turnitin, and we decided that we wanted to make that marking as useful to the students as possible by indicating how they were scoring in relation to the grade criteria of 0-100, how well they were meeting…
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Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas
Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, Playstation and elf onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! During November our team of Student Advisors ran a series of…
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Rubrics… So what are they anyway?
Recently in the Learning Technology Department we’ve been taking lots of calls and emails from staff wanting to use Rubrics in their teaching and learning but specifically, marking. What are they? Rubrics could also be called Grading or Marking Criteria. I’m sure many of you are used to the grid system used to mark students…
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LTD on Location – English and History
Recently, I popped into the Department of English and History to discuss the upcoming academic year (Yes! we really do start that early!) and as a result of a brief conversation about what the department needs from Learning Technology, we came up with a great idea for me to be based in the department for…
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Turnitin Grades – What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen!
It’s that time again… marking. Very few would actually admit to enjoying marking reams of students’ work right after the Christmas break but it is a necessary (evil) task. And to make things worse, students seem to be finding their grades out early! How on Earth did that happen? You’ve done everything you thought you…
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Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas
Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, XBox and onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! We’ve drawn together some good practice to ensure that your…
