Assessment tools

Online assignment submission and marking tools facilitate efficient and reliable assignment submission for students, and more efficient assignment marking for teaching staff. Assignments are immediately available to teaching staff for marking, and once marked, are quickly available to students for reflection.

1. Blackboard Assignment : set up individual or group assignments and mark online.

2. Blackboard Test: set up individual or group tests and mark online.

3. Blackboard Discussion Board: post discussion items and reply to other posts.

4. Blackboard e-Portfolio: set up individual assignments mapped to assessment outcomes and track student progress.

5. Turnitin: set up individual or group assignments with a similarity report and mark online.

6. Kaltura Video Assignment: set up individual or group assignments and mark online.

7. Respondus Quiz Management Tool (Paid license): create questions offline and publish them into your NTULearn courses.

Turnitin is recommended for group assignments that require a similarity report, although it does not have built-in group functionality. One member of the group will need to submit on behalf of all group members and marks will need to be manually entered for non-submitting group members. The student who submits the assignment will need to download the feedback and share it with the other group members.

The Blackboard Assignment tool is recommended for group assessment that does not require a similarity report. Using the Blackboard groups and assignment tool in combination allows you to set up group project submission links. Any student in the group can submit the assignment and all members will automatically receive the assignment results and feedback.

The Blackboard Groups tool can be used to streamline student group enrolments, although groups are not connected to Turnitin assignment submissions. For more information, refer to the Groups tool page.

The Group Peer Assessment tool allows you to collects student responses on the contribution of individual group members, calculate averages scores (Likert option), PAFs (Peer Assessment Factors) and SAPAs (Self-Assessment over Peer Assessment). The tool also allows you to view collated responses and facilitate moderation of results.

NTULearnVideo can be used by students to submit video or audio assignments. You can also set up submission links using the Blackboard assignment tool which allows you to use the online marking function to provide comments and feedback using a rubric. Students typically record with their phone or use Zoom to generate their video.

There are two video or audio assignment submission options:

1. Set up a Blackboard assignment and have students use the Kaltura Media mashup in the text editor to upload and embed the file.

a. For individual video assignments, students simply submit their assignment which then can be marked through Grade Centre.

b. For group video assignments, the Blackboard groups and assignment tool can be used in combination so one student, on behalf of the group, submits the assignment which then can be marked through Grade Centre. See the Group assignments section.

The test tool allows you to create online quizzes and tests that include both automatically and manually marked question types.

Features

• Automatic marking with select question types (i.e. multiple choice, true/false).

• Results automatically transferred to Grade Centre.

• Randomisation of answers and question order.

• Questions can be randomly selected from question pools.

Limitations

• Unable to restrict students from accessing external content during test.

A discussion board is a place where you and your students can post discussion items and reply to other posts. It can be used for short question-and-answer-style collaboration between students.

Features

• Allows for marking of individual submissions or student contributions over a semester.

• Students can give feedback on each others' work.

• The "post first" set up can be used to ensure student enter their own response before they can view the responses of other students.

• It can be used it as communication tool for you and your students to share documents (i.e. PPT, words, video files) and as well as meaningful insights findings.

Limitations

• No similarity report.

• Posts are visible to all students.

Handwritten assignments (e.g. math working, chemistry equations, hand-drawn pictures and diagrams) can be converted to digital documents by students using a phone application and camera. These digital documents can then be submitted to either a Turnitin Assignment or BB Assignment tool and marked directly in those tools .

Note: A Turnitin Similarity report will not be available for this document format.

Guides for converting handwritten documents to digital documents:

• Scan to PDF via Onedrive (Android) by Microsoft

• Scan to PDF via Onedrive (iOS) by Microsoft
  

Face to face assessment such as oral presentations can be facilitated using Zoom or converted to a video assignment.
Refer to the Video assignments (Kaltura) section 4 above.

Face to face examinations can also be conducted on Zoom using the waiting room feature to admit students one at a time.

Respondus (paid license) is an assessment authoring tool for course instructors to create and manage tests, surveys, and question pools that can be printed to paper or published directly to NTULearn. The interface is user-friendly and consists of a series of tabs for the user to work through – from opening or creating a new quiz, to publishing it to NTULearn and retrieving reports.

Features

• Create assessment items offline.

• Batch publish assessment items to multiple courses in a step.

• Imported questions from MS Word (including embedded images).

• Set point values and assessment settings, and publish questions after preview.

• Download assessment items and custom reports, such as the Grade Center spreadsheet, student scores, and summary statistics.