Usage

Why use Assignment Review?

The Assignment Review tool helps students learn from feedback on their work and supports you as a teacher in assessing different types of products:

• The tool is suitable for reports, but also for videos and audio clips, for example
• Feedback can be given at specific moments in the work (for example, by pausing the video/audio)
• As a teacher, you can monitor students' progress and respond to it in the interim, for example by providing additional explanation or more in-depth feedback where necessary
• Clear assessment criteria make expectations clear to students
• Feedback can be used as a basis for reflection or to improve the work and resubmit it.

To take into account

To use Assignment Review effectively, it is important to structure feedback well:

• Provide clear and concise criteria, for example using a rubric
• Make it explicit what students should do with the feedback (e.g. reflect or improve)
• Keep the focus on learning, not just on assessing the final product

Steps in Brightspace

Select the Unit/Folder where you want to add the Assignment Review. Select Add Existing and then choose FeedbackFruits.

Select Start from scratch and select Assignment Review. 

Select COPY AND EDIT

First, enter the Activity name at the top, then enter the Instructions by teacher under step 1 Instructions.. 

Under Student collaboration, you can indicate whether students submit work individually or as a group and whether they are assessed individually or as a group.

Next, under step 2 Submissions, you can adjust all kinds of settings for submitting:

• Required numbers of files to hand in: here you indicate how many files may/must be submitted. 
• Scheduling deadline: here you can enter a deadline after which submissions will no longer be accepted..
• File requirements: please specify here which types of files may be submitted..
• Anonymity: please indicate here whether the submitted work should be anonymised for fellow students (as an instructor, you will always see the names of the students who have submitted work).
• Visibility: indicate here who can view the submitted work.
• Below Guiding students you can provide additional instructions for submitting work.

In step 3, the instructor provides feedback on the submitted work. Here, you can configure the criteria for the feedback by creating a new rubric or by selecting previously created rubrics.

You can enable Step 4 Received reviews if you want students to be able to provide feedback on the reviews they have received.

Next, under Grading, you can adjust the settings for any marks. If you do not want to assign a mark, you can delete this section using the x:

Additional instructions for instructors

For each step, you can also provide additional instructions that are only visible to instructors. To do this, click on the + sign:

Adding extra steps

If you wish, you can also add other steps by clicking on + Add learning step at the bottom. You can then choose from:

• Automated feedback on writing
• Reflections

Are you finished? Then click on SAVE in the top right corner.