New USQ assessment functionality: out with the old in with the new

Fiona MyattMichael Sankey

Learning environments and Media

Enrolled students USQ

• All students 28,100+• On-campus 7,600• External/online 20,500 (73%)• International 6,000 (1,100 ONC)

The vast majority of USQ students access information services onlineMost Students and Staff know what they’re getting themselves in for when they come to USQ

The context – our VLE

USQStudyDesk

Student facing

USQStaffDesk

Staff training and playground

USQOpenDesk

OERs and Community

based courses

RepositoryEquella – LOR and other collections

ePortfolio

USQ Website and Portal

This time last year Vs Now

MoodleEASE

CMA/EMS

Turnitin

Moodle

Turnitin 2

• We are all on a journey

Integrated StudyDesk project

• New look-n-feel for Moodle• Develop new communications/notifications bar• Develop new tabular functionality• Develop a fork of Moodle assignment (temp)• Integrate assignment + with PeopleSoft• Fully implement Equella under Moodle• Semi-automate processes for migrations• Further integration Mahara

Standardised look and feel

Context

Staff eLE

Moodle Assignment

• The new features include: – Marker quota management– Auto marker allocation – Draft filtering and flagging for attention– Submission file type limiting – Enhanced verification of student submissions – Staff development resources– Administrator comments

Marker quota management

Assignment quotasAuto marker allocation

Assignment quotasAuto marker allocation

Draft filtering

Flagging for attention

Submission file type limiting

Enhanced verification of student submissions

Administrator comments

Training

USQStaffDesk

Pedagogy

Issues we have faced

• A bigger change for staff than we anticipated• Over whelmed them with a 50 page document• We got caned • Conflated with Turnitin issues• But, staff were not engaging in PD• Had to offer more personalised training • But we have a plan to make further improvements• Identified future development

– Moderation – More filtering options – extensions, late submissions, not

yet released– Configure downloaded submissions into directories– Identification of downloaded assignments

Conclusion

• Hopping that some of these innovations can be deemed worthy for inclusion into core

• Most of the issues we faced were not due to bad functionality

• Different way of supporting staff and students• Need to be conscious that most teachers are

really busy