{"id":6998,"date":"2018-03-14T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:56:08","slug":"learntech-updates-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2018\/03\/14\/learntech-updates-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"LearnTech Updates: Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0LearnTech\u00a0team\u00a0is pleased to share some updates and improvements around assessments and related processes in NILE.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Firstly, the Team had been\u00a0tasked with exploring existing options for applying prompts for students within NILE for both\u00a0Turnitin\u00a0and Blackboard assignments as soon as the submission deadline had\u00a0passed,\u00a0and\u00a0non-submission of assessments had been identified.\u00a0The following solution will provide consistent\u00a0standardised\u00a0responses\u00a0and so allow for appropriate action to be taken to support students. The text going out to students\u00a0has been approved at the Student Experience Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Updated guidance has been produced as a result and is now available. For Turnitin and Blackboard assignments, tutors have an option to\u00a0send emails to students who have not submitted an assignment by the due date (including\u00a0tests, surveys, graded discussion boards, journals or blogs):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><a title=\"Q. How do I send emails to non-submitters from Blackboard?\" href=\"http:\/\/libanswers.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/180664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q. How do I send emails to non-submitters from Blackboard?<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">While staff may have used Turnitin&#8217;s &#8216;Email non-submitters&#8217; option previously, you should be aware that students who are unavailable in your NILE sites will still receive these notifications. Our recommended guidance avoids this outcome.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Secondly, tutors will notice that they now have another option available to them when setting up assessments in NILE \u2013\u00a0Qwickly\u00a0Jot. This\u00a0tool allows\u00a0you\u00a0to\u00a0select an image for students to markup and submit as a piece of work: for example, you may want your students to label a biological\u00a0diagram\u00a0or\u00a0plot a graph. The submissions are linked\u00a0directly with the Blackboard grade\u00a0centre, so they can be viewed and marked directly from your module\u00a0site. Further information and guidance on how to use the tool are available here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><a title=\"Q. What is a Qwickly Jot Assignment?\" href=\"http:\/\/libanswers.northampton.ac.uk\/Learntech\/faq\/182544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q. What is a Qwickly Jot Assignment?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">And finally, those of you who are familiar with the\u00a0LearnTech\u00a0FAQs may have noticed that they have migrated to a new home,\u00a0LibAnswers\u00a0&#8211; a central place for Library and Learning Services help.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/LibAnswers_FAQs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7005\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/LibAnswers_FAQs-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">You can find these along with our NILE Guides by clicking\u00a0the\u00a0HELP tab at the top of NILE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Within the new FAQ\u2019s you can filter your results by\u00a0selecting \u201cLearning Technology (NILE)&#8221; under \u201cGroups\u201d and\u00a0\u201cStaff\u201d or \u201cStudents\u201d under \u201cTopics\u201d on the\u00a0right-hand\u00a0side.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/LibAnswers_FAQs_filter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7006\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/LibAnswers_FAQs_filter-300x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0LearnTech\u00a0team\u00a0is pleased to share some updates and improvements around assessments and related processes in NILE.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Firstly, the Team had been\u00a0tasked with exploring existing options for applying prompts for students within NILE for both\u00a0Turnitin\u00a0and Blackboard assignments as soon as the submission deadline had\u00a0passed,\u00a0and\u00a0non-submission of assessments had been identified.\u00a0The following solution will provide consistent\u00a0standardised\u00a0responses\u00a0and so allow [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learntech-news","category-nile-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LearnTech Updates: Assessments - Learning Technology Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2018\/03\/14\/learntech-updates-assessments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LearnTech Updates: Assessments - Learning Technology Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0LearnTech\u00a0team\u00a0is pleased to share some updates and improvements around assessments and related processes in NILE. 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