Details of all assignments can be found under the 'Assessments' section of your Blackboard course. Word spacing should be 1.5 lines as per the HSS general handbook. All pages must be numbered. The use of appendices should be appropriate (contain additional information or detail etc.) and not be used to reduce the number of words contained in the text. The word count of your work (excluding title, tables, figures, reference lists and appendices) must be given at the end of the assignment. You must use Harvard referencing for all written essay assignments. Please see https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.html for details.
For posters, PowerPoints, presentations and other submissions you may use whichever font and type size you consider most appropriate. You may also use Vancouver (numerical) referencing if you prefer as long as you use a consistent style within your work. Please see https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/referencing/vancouver.html for details.
Precise details of each assignment and submission dates are given on Blackboard. NB The deadline for ‘Final Submission’ to Turnitin or Grade Centre (available in Blackboard via MUSE) is 12.00 NOON UK, on the date given. All written assignments should be submitted with your student registration number only. No name must be on any written assignment, so that anonymous marking may take place. All assignments are marked anonymously and are moderated internally as well as by the external examiner. If you have a diagnosed specific learning difficulty, then please include the letters ‘SpLD’ in your filename, next to your registration number.
For some modules such as Concomitance and Incomitance in Depth, Eye to Vision, Insight into Disease and Research Methods, completion of a course journal is a compulsory requirement of the module. When you have completed the answers for each unit, you can upload the completed work under the unit section of Blackboard and receive author answers on each submission. Please note that for modules where there is either a practice portfolio or reflective diary (Paediatric Ophthalmology, Exemptions and Low Vision), that there is no course journal submission, because the collective course unit work forms part of an assessed piece of work in these modules.
For all units you can find template blank answer documents under the unit on Blackboard for you to download and complete. For further help as to how to submit assignments please see: https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Student/Assignments/Submit_Assignments
Information available from the Assessment Preparation section of the Health Sciences School Student Handbook
For essay style assignments the Harvard system of referencing should be used, Please always strictly adhere to the library referencing guide for information on how to reference. A comprehensive guide to Harvard referencing is available here:
http://www.librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.html
For poster or Kaltura assignments it may be that numerical referencing is preferable and this is acceptable as long as the referencing style is standardised and consistent throughout the assignment. A comprehensive guide to Vancouver referencing is available here: https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/referencing/vancouver.html
Acknowledging others’ work (referencing) and avoiding plagiarism is included in the resources made available to you through Blackboard.
Information available from the Assessment Preparation section of the Health Sciences School Student Handbook
It is important that you do your best to hand in all work on time. If you submit work to be marked after the deadline your mark will be reduced by 5% for each working day the work is late after the deadline. A working day includes working days within standard vacation times. For example, if a submission date falls on the last day before the start of the Easter vacation, penalties would start to be applied from the following working day and not from the first day following the vacation.
If you submit your work more than 5 days late, your work will not be marked and it will be given a module outcome of NC (not completed).
Information available from the Assessment Preparation section of the Health Sciences School Student Handbook
For Modules ORT 6003 and ORT 6033 a Kaltura screencast presentation is required using the video platform ‘Kaltura Capturespace’ which is available to download from the Blackboard main menu. After selecting ‘Blackboard’, select the penultimate option on the left hand menu ‘Tell US & Tools’, then select ‘My Media’ which will give you the option to download Kaltura capturespace. ‘Add new’ allows you to make webcam and screencast recordings. Please note that your work can be edited once recorded, which can be helpful for clipping the start and finish of the recording. We recommend avoiding clipping within the main body of the discussion if possible, as this can appear interrupted or under-confident.
For ORT6003 (Eye to Vision), we recommend using PowerPoint to capture your video presentation and would prefer your recording to include a webcam picture of you as well as the screenshot. Please note that animations are not recommended, as it results in unsuccessful uploads of your material through the Kaltura Capturespace software. An accompanying PowerPoint presentation is NOT required for ORT6003 (Exemptions) – it is a webcam capture only.
These submissions are treated in a similar way to the word count of an essay submission and allow up to 5% over the time allocation without penalty. Beyond this, 20 going over the time will be penalised and included as one of the factors evaluated when these screencasts are assessed.
For further directions on creating and submitting Kaltura screencasts to Blackboard please the guidance given within each Blackboard course and also: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/apse/digital/media/students https://bbhelp.uark.edu/upload-your-kaltura-capture-video-to-blackboard/
Rubrics are available for each assignment and set out in a grid format, the marking criteria for each element of the assignment given to you.
For Turnitin (essay) assignments these can be found within either the draft or final submission areas. Please see the following webpage for guidance as to how to do this: https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/turnitin-website/student/submitting-a-paper/viewing-a-rubric-or-grading-form-before-you-submit.htm
For non-Turnitin assignments such as poster submissions or Kaltura screencast submissions, the rubrics are given separately as PDFs, under the 'assessment' section of the Blackboard course, under the tab 'rubrics'.
We strongly encourage you to view the rubrics and use this as a guideline to plan your assignments ahead of time.
When your work has been marked and moderated and feedback agreed, this will be revealed to you via your Blackboard course. Please see the following webpages for how to view your individual feedback: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/apse/digital/turnitin/feedbackstudents
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/apse/digital/blackboard/studentsmygrades
We will also provide a document with generic feedback to the cohort which will contain the mean mark for all of the assignments and the general strengths and weaknesses of the submissions as a whole. We then use this information to provide feed forward to the next year group. There will be a tab within the 'assessments' section of your Blackboard course entitled 'Generic feedback' where you will find this.
We then use the information provided to the previous cohort on the general strengths and weaknesses of the submissions for a particular assignment to guide the next year's cohort of students in planning their future submissions and we call this 'Feed forward'. Feedforward is the reverse exercise of feedback. It's the process of replacing positive or negative feedback with future-oriented solutions. There will be a tab within the 'assessments' section of your Blackboard course entitled 'Feed forward'. Unfortunately for your first year module and for the clinical leadership module, there have been no previous cohorts of students and so for these modules, this feed forward information will not be available.