"assessment" blog posts
Boost your Groupwork Assessments with new Buddycheck and Peer Evaluation resources
The Centre for Innovation in Education (CIE) is excited to announce a new collection of resources to guide and enhance your use of Buddycheck, a powerful tool for peer evaluation.
Posted on: 28 March 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) for Teaching, Learning & Assessment
I know what you’re thinking. Yes, I did write this myself. If, like me, you get to a point on what seems like a daily basis where you ‘get’ artificial intelligence, only to be back to square one the day after, well we may be able to help.
Posted on: 5 March 2024
Comparative Marking
In this video podcast, Tony Topping, Senior Learning Technologist in the School of Engineering, spoke to Sam Saunders from the Centre for Innovation in Education about the purpose, benefits and process of comparative marking – where markers examine two pieces of work side-by-side and make a judgement on which is better based on a set of criteria.
Posted on: 12 December 2023
Buddycheck Feature Update June 2022
Buddycheck is a peer evaluation tool used to help students to feedback and reflect upon the contribution of themselves and their peers towards groupwork tasks. This can be used to make assessment of groupwork fairer through increased accountability and peer-moderation of grades. It can also be used formatively as a prompt for reflection and source of feedback leading to development of teamwork skills. Buddycheck is intergrated into Canvas, and available for all staff at the University of Liverpool to use.
Posted on: 20 June 2022
Transition from New Box View to Bb Annotate for marking of assignments using Bb Assignments in VITAL
Earlier this year Blackboard Inc (the developers of VITAL) announced the move away from New Box View and the change to Bb Annotate for assignment viewing, marking and grading when using the Blackboard Assignment tool. Testing has now been completed to our satisfaction on this tool on our test server, and the change is due to be implemented, by our suppliers, on VITAL in the week commencing August 10th.
Posted on: 6 August 2020
Turnitin on Campus: Cultivating Academic Excellence – 20th June 2019
On the 20th June, the University of Liverpool hosted the first of a series of Turnitin on Campus events. These events held on campuses across Europe bring together academics, researchers and learning technologists to discuss topics that touch on cultivating academic excellence.
Posted on: 23 July 2019
SEDA Conference 2019
Ceridwen Coulby attended the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Spring Conference which took place from May 9th-10th 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Posted on: 31 May 2019