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WISEflow uses different terminology to UCL so below are some useful definitions.

WISEflow terminology

UCL terminology

WISEflow

AssessmentUCL (AUCL)

Flow

Assessment e.g. exam, essay, report

Flow type

Assessment type e.g. oral, written exam, multimedia

Participant

Student

Assessor

Tutor (first or second marker)

Author

Module Lead, Tutor (or Exam Liaison Officer, Teaching Administrator)

Reviewer

Module Lead, External Examiner, Exam Board Chair

Manager

Exam Liaison Officers, Teaching Administrators

Supporter

Digital Assessment Advisors, Faculty Learning Technologist Leads, Digital Education Support Analysts and Central Assessment Team

What assessments can be run on AssessmentUCL?

If you wish to run your assessments on AssessmentUCL, it is recommended that you submit your request to the Digital Assessment team at least 8 weeks in advance of the start date of the assessment.

Flow Type

Description

Features

Suitable for following assessment types
(refer to UCL's Assessment Operating Model)

FLOWassign

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File-based assessment where students upload a PDF file submission (file size: 200MB)

  • PDF file (up to 200MB)

  • Appendix (if enabled): files up to 5GB

  • In-line annotations (e.g. highlighting)

  • Turnitin similarity report

  • Section based marking - via Rubric Based Assessments

  • Mark input

  • Summary comment

  • Rubric marking

  • Controlled-conditioned exams

  • Take-home papers

  • Coursework and other assignments (e.g. essays, reports)

  • Dissertation/research project

FLOWmulti

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Online assignments authored on the platform.

Includes multiple question types, multiple-choice, interactive questions etc.

  • 50 different question types available (free-text, embedded images etc)

  • Auto-scored and manually scored questions.

  • Statistics/ data analytics

  • Annotation comment

  • Section based marking available

  • Mark input

  • Summary comment

  • Rubric marking

  • Controlled-conditioned exams

  • Take-home papers

  • Quizzes and In-class tests

FLOWhandin

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Allows submission of various digital formats (audio and video files) as well as PDF, Word and Excel. File limit: 5GB

  • Various digital formats accepted

  • One or more files up to 5GB

  • Mark input

  • Summary comment

  • Rubric marking

  • Coursework and other assessments (where Turnitin is not required - e.g. portfolios)

FLOWoral

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Enables administrative support of oral exams, such as scheduling oral exam slots. 

Nothing submitted in AssessmentUCL, students are timetabled.

  • Markers can take notes digitally on the platform as student presents in-person or via web conference platform (Teams, Zoom etc)

  • Mark input

  • Summary comment

  • Rubric marking

  • Practical exams

FLOWcombine

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Supports sequential or conditional assessments where assessment is broken down into smaller elements.

  • Combination of file types

  • Sequential or conditional assessments

  • Formative assessment (tbc)

  • Mark input

  • Summary comment

  • Rubric marking

  • Coursework and other assignments (e.g. portfolio, reflective journal, etc.)

Please note that AssessmentUCL does not currently support peer review assessment whereby students assess the work of the fellow peers or alternatively they evaluate the peer contribution to a group project. If you are wanting support on running peer assessment, please contact digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk.

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You can have more than one role on the same assessment instance, and different roles on different assessment instances.

UCL role

Example AssessmentUCL roles

Tutor/Module Lead

Author to create assignment paper and rubrics

Assessor to mark

Reviewer to moderate any marking and in some cases to approval final assessment marks

Course Administrator

Faculty Learning Technologist Lead

Exam Liaison Officer

Manager to create assignments and track progress.
Author to support the creation of online exam content (i.e. MCQs)

External Examiner

Reviewer to review assessments including student submissions and marking

Student

Participant

Post Graduate Teaching Assistants

PhD students

Author to create assignment paper and marking rubrics

Assessor to mark

You can learn about the different roles by opening the UCL role guides below:

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  • CAT = Central Assessment Team

  • DAA = Digital Assessment Advisor

  • FLTL = Faculty Learning & Technology Lead

  • ELO = Exam Liaison Officer in a Department

  • TA= Teaching Administrator in a Department

Centrally managed
assessments

Departmentally managed
assessments

Functions

Integrated

CAT

DAA/FLTL

ELO/TA

Integrated

CAT

DAA/FLTL

ELO/TA

Create assessment via SITS integration

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Populate participation and assessment deadlines

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

(manual)

Yes

Yes

No

Check/edit assessment basic information (quality check)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Add pdf file assignment: FlowAssign

Yes

No

Selected
depts only

No

No

Yes

Add online assignment: FlowMulti

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add multimedia assignments: FlowHandin

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Upload additional material to assessments

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add/edit cover sheet

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Set up marking and feedback options

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add additional markers to assessment (Assessor role):
users not recorded in SITS

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add additional moderators to assessment (Reviewer role):
users not recorded in SITS

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add additional Authors to assessment:
users not recorded in SITS

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add additional Managers:
users not recorded in SITS

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

Section based marking: allocate questions to markers - FlowMulti and Rubric based assessments

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Add and manage Rubric including RBA

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Set up late submissions: where applicable 

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Activate assessment (flow)

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

View student participation using the Flow Monitor

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Approve final marks: FLOWmulti (section based marking) AND RBA

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Un-submit or reset final marks

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Transfer marks via Portico integration

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Export marks via csv file

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Download submissions to pdf

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Release feedback to students

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Apply late penalties

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

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