Overview


This guidance will give you an overview of assessment practice, ideas for assessment, and online assessment tools available.

Contents

Designing Assessments

The Digital Learning team is available to offer advice on assessment design - for more information email dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. The list below covers the majority of ways that Learning Space can be used to support assessment.

Summative Assessments

All summative assessment links are created by Student Programmes and Achievement (SPA) (SPA@falmouth.ac.uk). You should not create your own. These are created using the Assignment activity. 


When SPA contacts course leaders for assessment information, they ask if the assignment should be with or without TurnitIn enabled. 


Without TurnitIn enabled

The majority of Assignments do not have TurnitIn enabled. Submissions to these links have the following limits:

  • 20 files
  • 1GB in total
  • any file type.

Note that students cannot submit folders of files but they can submit zipped folders.


With TurnitIn enabled

Where the assessment type is an essay or dissertation, Turnitin can be enabled within Assignment. The submissions will be limited to: 

  • 1 file
  • 100MB
  • Word document or PDF.

As well as originality checking, TurnitIn incorporates Feedback Studio that allows annotation of documents, overall text and audio comments, creation of a bank of reusable comments, and feedback via rubrics. A few courses use Feedback Studio, though most provide feedback by uploading a completed feedback proforma in Word or PDF.


First-time submissions

Students can edit their submission up to the deadline. They can also edit it up to a week after the deadline, but doing that will cause the submission to be classed as late.


Refer submissions

Students cannot submit or alter their submission after the deadline.

Summative video submissions

In the 2023/24 academic year, videos should be submitted via Panopto. Please familiarise yourself with the guide for students, and refer your students to this guide:

Summative portfolios

Portfolios may be submitted as:

  • a PDF (typically created in Word, PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator)
  • the URL of their Journal.

Journal is an educational version of Wordpress, whereby students can create a website or blog that relevant staff can access, but no-one else. Use of Journal is approved by SPA. Do contact dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk well in advance to discuss the best way to set this up so the student experience is a smooth one.


Please see more detailed notes on Assignment for Studio Submissions / Portfolios.

Draft Assignments with Turnitin enabled

Where the assessment type is an essay or dissertation it is possible for academic staff to create a draft Assignment activity in Learning Space with Turnitin enabled. The draft Assignment provides students the opportunity to view a Turnitin similarity report before they officially submit their work for assessment. 


The draft submissions must be limited to: 

  • 1 file
  • 100MB
  • Word document or PDF.

Exclamation mark iconImportant: In the 'Assignment activity settings' for a draft assignment you must ensure that within the 'Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings' that 'Store Student Papers' option is set to 'No Repository'. The 'No Repository' setting allows draft submissions to be checked for originality without them being stored in Turnitin's database.


Please refer to guide, Setting up an Assignment for further information on creating a draft Assignment activity with Turnitin enabled in Learning Space.

Formative Quizzes

The Quiz activity offers:

  • Marking done by the computer for most question types and can include pre-prepared feedback
  • Multiple question types
  • Essay questions can be used (with manual marking)
  • Controlled and time-limited
  • Random selection of questions

Peer Review

Please consult dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. This may be done via the following Learning Space activities:

  • forum
  • database
  • workshop.


The most comprehensive of these is the Workshop activity, but it requires plenty of preparation and familiarisation by the teacher. Its features include:

  • Designed for peer-assessments within a structured review/feedback/grading framework
  • Allows for the assessment of how well a student reviews another's work as well as how well they did on their own submission
  • Tutor has ultimate control over what the student sees
  • Tutor can provide exemplar work

Further support

For further support on Learning Space, or to report any issues with this guide, please get in touch with the Digital Learning Team via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, please refer to the numerous help guides found on our Knowledge Base. 


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