Assessing with blogs

This page is a work in progress, but here are some things you may want to bear in mind when looking to use blogging for assessment:

  • How to grade 
    • Assessment criteria - weighting of visual vs content
    • Group contributions
    • Practicalities - where does the grade/feedback go?
    • Deadlines and how to enforce them
  • Setting the assessment
    • Word count
    • Handling/detecting plagiarism
    • Technical issues and support
    • Target audience
  • Setting the context
    • What is blogging? How to blog? - get a blogger to speak?
    • Show a variety of examples - simple blog layout with great content vs amazing visual stylings and limited content
    • Digital literacies 
    • Referencing and copyright