Grading in Assignments

Overview

Brightspace provides a number of tools to support assessment activities in your module. To further assist you in delivering a range of assessment options, we have a number of integrations that elevate how you may wish to offer your assessments. All have the option of being formative or summative assessments and provide options for directing students and providing feedback. These tools cover the full scope of assessed activities. They provide for individual, group and peer assessment.

The Accessible Activities view within Brightspace

Key Features

Depending on your module and how you wish to deliver your assessment, Brightspace offers a number of different features to support you.

The Assignment tool is primarily used for assessments such as essays, assignments, capstone projects, group assignments etc. Assignments should be created where a submission of a file is required. Brightspace supports the upload of most file types. Turnitin Originality Checker can also be enabled in assignments for plagiarism detection.

The Discussion tool can be used to grade the individual posts or overall threads posted by a student.
PeerScholar, a peer review tool that allows students to work together to deepen learning while also exercising & measuring core skills
Bongo Video Assignments that allow for time stamped feedback on submitted videos from individual students.
Turnitin Originality Checker is the plagiarism detection tool, available to support academic integrity on assignments within your module.
YuJa allows for formative and summative assessment options via the use of in video quiz options, Students can also submit video assignments/podcasts/mp3 files using YuJa via the assignment tool.

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