Getting serious about managing assessment in Moodle
Moving to Moodle in 2011 brings with it a number of challenges for how we manage assessment. It also introduces a stack of exciting opportunities.
Today marks the start of a focused attempt to draw together a series of initiatives, ideas, discussion papers and findings from the previous LMSes at UNE, all focused around creating awesome assessment experiences.
Our goals are simple:
- Assemble and support tools that allow for the widest range of meaningful assessment approaches
- Use our systems to save time and effort for everyone – staff and students
- Provide the clearest, simplest assessment approach imaginable
Why now?
Leaving Blackboard and Sakai also means leaving our internally-developed and supported integration and assignment management tools (TLCAdmin and ESubmission).
What’s already set?
- Moodle is our new assignment submission tool
What’s in scope for investigation?
Everything else!
- Online assignment marking
- Bulk printing
- Bulk (marked) assignment scanning and return
- Individual student assignment extensions (Moodle only supports a common date for all students)
- Turnitin integration
- File format auto-conversion
- Tracking of assignments (marked and unmarked)
- Assignment of markers, rubrics
- BIM plugin (blog post assignments)
- Lightwork Marking (assessment management tool by a team at Massey University
- Grade moderation
- Grade export (preparation for Callista import of final Grades)
We have and will continue to consult far and wide (academics, administrative support staff, the TLC, other Universities)