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Spent time writing feedback for students but not sure if they're engaging with it?
You want to know that students benefit from the feedback you spend time and effort preparing. However, the message from the literature is that across the sector students don't always manage to make use of assessment feedback.
- The MyFeedback Report gives an overview of when students ' engaged with each instance of the feedback given via Moodle (except Turnitin).
- The Turnitin inbox displays a column which tells staff whether or not students have looked at their feedback for over 30 seconds.
Here's how to monitor the most basic aspect of engagement with feedback - whether or not they students have looked at it.
- Choose one of your Turnitin or Moodle assignments with a feedback release date in the future (ideally before Easter) and where where markers are providing feedback within Turnitin or Moodle.
- In your diary, make a note to check it one day, one week and one month after the feedback release date.
- On each date, check according to the instructions below. Record the data somewhere so you can find it again. It will also help to make a note of the size of the cohort, and how they received notice that feedback was available, and support with what to do with it. You can use this data as a benchmark and compare future cohorts with it.
Turnitin Assignment
You can see at a glance who has viewed feedback directly from the Turnitin assignment activity.
- Go to the Moodle area containing that assignment
- Click the link to the Turnitin assignment.
- Click the Submission inbox tab .(if the assignment has multiple parts)
- Show all, if necessary.
- Page - down, counting the number of students who have looked at feedback. (See image below. You can hover over the image for the date and time).
You can also check the number of submissions
at a glanceby
clicking the link to Assignments (Turnitin) which may be in Navigation bar (you can also view this summary by enabling theenabling the Activities block on your Moodle
area frontcourse's main page, and then clicking on
itsthe relevant Turnitin link
).
Note anything else of interest.
Here is an example of a Turnitin assignment which denotes whether students have viewed the feedback area. (The icon may not display if students have visited the feedback area for less than 30 seconds).
MyFeedback Report
The date that students viewed the feedback from an assessment is displayed in Moodle's MyFeedback report, allowing tutors to easily determine if and when their comments has have been viewed. Feedback that has not been viewed has a cross displayed beside it.
Moodle
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Unlike with the Turnitin assignment above, you cannot see at a glance who has viewed feedback directly from the Moodle assignment activity. By viewing the assignment log and taking a sample of students who
...
visited the assignment/assignment part, and seeing how long they remained on that page before their next movement,
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you can speculate (and then triangulate by asking students, if
...
you wish to).
- Go to the Moodle area containing that assignment.
- Click the link to the Moodle assignment.
- In its Settings (context menu which displays in a side block) click Logs; the logs for the assignment display.course
- Select Reports
- Select Logs
- Select the required Moodle assignment, from the 'All Activities' drop down list
- You can filter All Days to the day you want to look at.
- You can filter All Actions to just View.
- Select Get these logs
- Rather than Display on the page, you can download as a spreadsheet; this . This allows you to eliminate any staff members member entries from the records.
You can also check the number of submissions
at a glanceon the assignments by enabling the Activities block on your Moodle
area frontcourse main page, and then clicking on
its Assignmentsthe assignment link.