Comments on: Negotiating Assessments & Feedback in Instructure’s Grade Form

By: Stein

Stein — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:43 +0000

@Scott I think you’re right, though if I’m scoring a blog I can think of a number of reasons for visiting the real thing rather than just the snapshot.

I suppose the reliability also depends on whether or not (1) the student submitted the url of a post or the url of their blog (which might have “Read More” links), (2) whether or not the screen shot is some portion of the page or the whole thing. A portion could mask the length of a document.

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:53:57 +0000

Ken’s comment is confusing me – I thought the snapshot image that Instructure took was done at the point of “submission” of the assignment, and stored locall,y precisely to avoid this issue of someone submitting something but then continuing to work on it. How would an umage on the student’s homepage change this? It seemed to me that the *preferred* thing to mark would be this screenshot as it would represent exactly what was submitted. At least that was my understanding.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:39:47 +0000

Jared (and others),

It is good to see some tools starting to be created to help teachers provide detailed and timely feedback to students — after all good feedback is very important to online students, it is time consuming to provide and most institutions don’t resource it very well.

I’d be interested in your, or other’s, thoughts on some software I have created to help teachers save time providing detailed feedback (text, links, images and audio) and an automated marking rubric template. You can see it at http://eMarkingAssistant.com

What other tools to people use to help them provide feedback on electronic assignments?

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:41:12 +0000

Right, and I don’t–but it is nice to verify. In this case, for instance, it didn’t tell me anything about the actual content of the assignment–just that there was a there there.

By: Ken Woodward

Ken Woodward — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:08:43 +0000

I would not rely on the screenshot of the URL that was submitted. Students could easily have a website that is one big image, and then do the work later. It is a nice feature, but I wouldn’t use it to grade the actual assignment (obviously this depends on the type of assignment and course).