Gill Harrison explains how to use the Turnitin Moodle plugin to generate similarity reports and how to interpret and use them to support students with their written assignments
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Moodle quizzes for self-assessment of knowledge
Raf Benato, from the division of Health Services Research and Management in the School of Health Sciences, explains how she uses Moodle quizzes to enable her students to assess their knowledge in the Leading and Facilitating Learning in Practice module
Confidence-based marking quick answer questions for clinical diagnosis
Confidence-based marking is a way to encourage students to think about how confident they are with their answer to a question. Positive and negative marking is used to award more marks for correct answers given with confidence and less marks for incorrect marks with a high degree of confidence that the answer was correct.
Gill Harrison from the division of Radiography and Midwifery explains how she uses confidence-based marking in class and within Moodle to encourage student self-assessment of their diagnostic skills.
Moodle quizzes for (self-)assessment of learning and feedback
Gill Harrison from the divison of Radiography and Midwifery demonstrates the various uses of the Moodle quiz activity and how they can be used in a module to promote self-assessment, provide formative feedback and enable teachers to assess learning and progression.
Formative Moodle quizzes and conditional release of learning material
Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona from the divison of Optometry and Visual Sciences explains how she uses Moodle quizzes and conditional release to provide students with ongoing feedback on their learning progress and identify students in need of more support.
Poll Everywhere in Optometry – Presentation from Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona
Moodle Turnitin assignment guidance from the Educational Technology Team
Moodle quiz guidance from the Educational Technology Team
Formative assessments for anatomy and physiology using WileyPlus
Pam Cherry from the division of Midwifery and Radiography describes how she embedded WileyPlus MCQs in her formative assessment to support self-study.
Collaboratively building exam model answers using Sharepoint
Elliot Freeman, Department of Psychology
With ever-increasing undergraduate student numbers, individual students can become lost in the crowd, and high assessment workloads make it difficult to provide sufficient feedback on students’ performance. To reduce workload, Elliot replaced some traditional exam essays on his second-year Visual Perception module with short-answer questions. He then coached his students on this new format and decided to provide new weekly workshops to engage students.