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