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These tools help educators create, administer, and grade assessments.
Cirrus
Cirrus
Cirrus is a powerful and intuitive online exam platform designed to help educators create, manage, and deliver assessments efficiently. It offers advanced question types, blueprints, psychometric data, and custom marking workflows, ensuring exams are relevant to modern learners. The platform also boasts robust security features, including anti-cheating measures and ISO certification, guaranteeing exam integrity and reliability.
Cirrus provides significant benefits by ensuring a smooth and efficient assessment process for both staff and students. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to learn and use, while dedicated customer success teams support seamless implementation and ongoing assistance. This results in higher satisfaction levels among educators and students, ultimately enhancing the overall learning experience.
Panopto
Panopto
Panopto offers integrated and flexible recording and publishing tools, making it easy to capture, share, and grow expert knowledge. Panopto connects with various technology tools, including LMS platforms, and supports recording from Zoom, Teams, Webex, and more. Its AI-powered tools facilitate content creation, knowledge discovery, and accessibility.
Educators can use Panopto to record lectures, meetings, and other educational content, which can then be published to a fully indexed video library. This allows students to access on-demand playback optimized for all devices. Panopto also supports interactive content creation and provides captioning for videos and live streaming, making learning more accessible and equitable.
Panopto benefits institutions by supporting diverse learning modalities, from in-person to fully remote and asynchronous learning. It enhances the online learning experience with interactive and accessible content, ensuring that students can engage with course materials anytime, anywhere. This flexibility helps future-proof enrollment and supports a rich, inclusive learning experience.
PDF Marker Tool
PDF Marker Tool
The new PDF marker tool is available: A new PDF marker tool is available enabling lecturers to mark assignments, submitted in PDF format, electronically (on screen). The tool is still under development to improve and extend its functionality, but can already be used for basic marking. This Infographic provides an overview of the steps for using the application. For detailed instructions on downloading, installing and using the tool please view the short video clips below. More information on demonstration webinars will follow soon.
NB: Please take note that this tool is under development. The PDF marking tool can currently only be used with the Assignments tool in eFundi and not Tests and Quizzes.
Please take note of the following regarding the PDF Marker Tool:
The PDF Marker is still under development
This means that the PDF Marker should/must/can only be used with the assignments tool within eFundi.
This means that Tests & Quizzes and Groups are not supported yet. Thus, if you use any other tool than assignments, you will experience issues.
We humbly request that you only attempt to mark assignments that were set up correctly (more on this below), that was downloaded within the assignments tool.
We humbly request that you do not attempt to use the PDF marker with Tests & Quizzes or Groups.
Remember to set your assignments up correctly
When setting up your assignment, remember to change the submission type to uploaded PDF file(s) only. This ensures that students won't be able to submit documents in any other format than PDF. This is quite a common mistake, that causes a lot of errors.
Secondly, remember to set the Grade Scale to Points.
Thirdly, remember to add the maximum points in the box below the grade scale.
We acknowledge your need for the PDF Marker beyond plain assignments. Please take note that we are continuously working on improving your experience. However, the development and testing of the PDF Marker is a resource-intensive and time-consuming process.
We are starting with testing the upcoming version which boasts various new features, as requested by our PDF Marker community! Keep an eye on the announcements for teasers.
Turnitin (TII)
Turnitin (TII)
Turnitin is web-based text-matching software that works by comparing electronically submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the Internet and proprietary databases as well as the work of other students’ papers submitted to the Turnitin repository.
The North-West University has an institutional license for Turnitin, which is embedded into the Assignments tool of eFundi.
Important note: Turnitin does NOT identify plagiarism – only similarities. The lecturer/study leader has to work through the reports to determine whether similarities are in fact plagiarism.
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