What is it?
Feedback tracker is a single page report that allows students to more easily access feedback and see feedback turnaround times.
It allows staff to signpost assessments and indicate when feedback is going to be returned, in what format, and whether the assessment is summative or formative.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to indicate to students which are the most important assessments they should focus on.
It also demonstrates to students that feedback turnaround times are being met.
Who can use it?
Availble on all Moodle courses. It can be configured by Course Administrators or Tutors.
Meeting the baseline
The UCL Connected Learning Baseline suggests the following for assessment :
- 4.1 Provide an assessment outline with a clear description of the module assessment
The assessment and feedback outline should include the schedule, criteria, submission details, and an overview of how students should expect to receive and make use of feedback.
Moodle could be used to amplify and support that information, perhaps to include sources of advice, etc.
How do I set it up?
The report appears automatically for all Moodle courses with assessments.
Configuring Feedback tracker
Written guidance is provided below. You may also like to watch the Feedback tracker staff video guide.
Viewing the Feedback tracker report for your course
- Navigate to your Moodle course
- Click the Report tab
- Click Feedback tracker
By default you will see the Course administrator view of the Feedback tracker.
You can select to "View as" a student to see what the student will see for your course.
Editing the Feedback tracker report for your course
From the Feedback tracker page, toggle Edit mode on.
The interface should change to show editing options.
The following fields can be edited.
| Field | Datatype | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feedback due date | Datetime | 20 working days after the assessment due date. Turnaround is based upon UCL’s academic policy on Assessment feedback requirement that feedback should be delivered within 20 UCL working days excluding all UCL holidays. This field can be edited, but staff must provide a reason for doing so. This reason is not shown to students. |
| Method | Optional free text field. | Use to communicate the kind of feedback being returned e.g. written, oral, video, in-class. This helps signpost the different kinds of feedback students are receiving. |
| Contact | Optional free text field. | Use to communicate any contact staff member or email for students to see alongside their assessment. |
| Additional information | Optional free text field. | Use to communicate any additional information e.g. updates on marking, link to cohort feedback Moodle forum post. |
| Cohort feedback provided | Checkbox | Select to indicate cohort feedback has been returned. This will change the feedback status to released for the assessment. Once the checkbox is selected, the option will save automatically. |
| Summative | Checkbox Integration from Mark Transfer & Assessment Categorisation | Identifies the assessment as summative which is displayed to the student from the Feedback tracker report. Once the checkbox is selected, the option will save automatically. If an assessment has been mapped using Mark Transfer or Assessment categorisation has been used, the assessment will appear as summative automatically. |
| Hide from report | Checkbox | Hides the assessment from the Feedback tracker report. Does not hide it on the course from students. Allows for staff to hide practice assessments that they do not wish to highlight in the Feedback tracker report e.g. practice assessments, optional assessments. Once the checkbox is selected, the option will save automatically. Note. If an assessment is hidden on a Moodle course, it will not show on the Feedback tracker report. |
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