Other Brightspace tools worth considering that can help your efficiency when providing feedback to students in Brightspace are rubrics and the assessment summary tool.

Rubrics

One very useful way of giving students feedback is through the rubric functionality in Brightspace. The rubrics allow you to give students feedback under specific criteria and levels that you have composed, the end result being a matrix of squares of description. Rubrics usually have a few statements of description in each square.

Rubrics allow for quick and timely feedback as:

• you can click on the different squares in the matrix and
• they are positioned beside the assignment and other tasks within Brightspace, such as discussion topics.

Therefore, once set up they are a good use of your time and very valuable for students.
In addition, you can also add very specific feedback to students, for example, advice on what to do to improve their next assignment.

You don't have to start from scratch as there are many existing rubrics developed. For more on this and on how to design different types of rubrics see this Designing Grading and Feedback Rubrics.

See our resource page ‘Introduction to Rubrics’ which outlines why use rubrics, types of rubrics and how to create them in Brightspace.  Once set up in your module you can copy to your other modules or share with other UCD colleagues.