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