e-Submission

If you would like more information and pedagogic insight into the use of online submission, an excellent starting point is this JISC guide.

What can go wrong?

• Students do not know or have forgotten how to submit their essays online.

What can I do?

• Make these instructions available to students via your Moodle page and/or as part of your assessment guidance:

What Else?

• Each semester, students submit the wrong document and receive a fail grade for doing so. The regulations do not permit a change to the submitted document after the deadline has passed. Please make is very clear to your students that they should review their submission to ensure they have uploaded the correct document.

Timing your assessment deadline.

• Consider the timing of your assessment deadline in terms of the time for submission as well as the date. Midnight is a default setting, but this can lead to mistakes due to tiredness for students who work to the deadline and prevent them from checking their submission.

Changing the time will also relieve the potential for pressure on the system at key time in peak periods. There is less fragility in the system in terms of ‘crashing’ due to high volumes of activity, but we can still assist in this by varying our time of submission.

Deadlines that are set at times when there is little possibility of support or advice from OB (for example during periods of University closure or out of hours) is likely to cause preventable anxiety if a student is experiencing difficulties.

Students registered with the Dyslexia/SpLD Service

Students who are registered with the Dyslexia/SpLD Service are entitled to attach an online blue marking card to their Turnitin or Moodle assignments to indicate to their tutors that they wish their work to be marked in accordance with the blue card guidelines.

The process of submission and marking involves students handing over their completed assignment to the appropriate person so that marking and/or feedback can take place. In using e-submission and feedback the process can be made as easy as possible for students and avoid them having to make a journey to campus just for this purpose. For administration purposes making it readily possible to see who has and hasn't submitted, to undertake academic integrity checking and distribute the assignments to markers.

This is a key stage in the lifecycle when student work is formally evaluated against a set of predefined assessment criteria with marks and feedback provided. It is possible to carry out all of these tasks electronically and the end point of this stage is the culmination of marking and moderation processes - a single grade is recorded against each piece of work and recorded in the student record system.

OLAF Principles

• Support students to meet assessment requirements and manage deadlines. (Submission)