1. Online Assignment Submission, Allocation, Marking, Moderation and Return in Blackboard - A Fresh Approach Michael Garner, Griffith University Professor Stephen Colbran, University of New England www.remarkspdf.com

2. The University Griffith University Blackboard Academic Suite 8 –Moving to 9.1 in 2012 OUA provider –courses in online only mode 5 Campuses

3. The Context All courses have a presence in Blackboard Currently 4 Assignment types as well as paper-based submission –Native e-submission –Remote Assignment Printing –SafeAssign –Manual submission Blended Learning Strategy aimed at increasing the baseline of technology use in courses Supporting a larger project to develop consensus moderation practices to support comprehensive Quality Assurance of Assessment standards Reviewing the 3 online assignment tools and looking for a more integrated approach Responding to student feedback around easier submission and faster return of feedback

4. Why Remarks? Multiple marking Facilitates quality feedback quickly Consistency through shared marking criteria, comment banks. Offline capability

5. The Pilot 2 stage roll-out Stage 1 –Familiarity with the RemarksPDF tool –Expectations around e-Submission, marking and return –Evaluate viability of seamless LMS integration Stage 2 –Ongoing familiarity with advanced features of RemarksPDF –Seamless Integration with LMS Outcomes so far Enthusiasm from academic staff about the –range of marking tools available in the software –students in receiving timely and meaningful feedback. Positive feedback from students around the time to get the feedback and quality/amount. Issues so far: Limited LMS integration (ie. Involves multiple steps) – corrected in Stage 2 SafeAssign: Whilst there are workarounds, unable at this stage to extract assignments submitted via SafeAssign

6. LMS integration

7. Advanced PDF functionality

8. Rubrics

9. Text, audio and video comments

10. Coverpage and Endnote

11. Marks, criteria and comments

12. Handwriting, drawing and pen tools

13. Style libraries

14. Smart charts

15. Colour coding

16. Criterion-based marking

17. Stamps

18. Automatic mark addition

19. Moderation

20. Customizable

21. What students’ think

22. Questions Michael Garner m.garner@griffith.edu.au 07 3735 4097 Stephen Colbran stephen.colbran@remarkspdf.com www.remarkspdf.com 07 3399 4010