eMarking assistant: benefits for teachers, markers & students
eMarking Assistant received a commendation in the 2010 Australian
IMS Learning
Impact Awards finals -
view the 5 minute
presentation.
Teachers, graders, and markers save time and benefit because:
- it saves you time when marking assignments and grading papers allowing you to reclaim your weekends and do
the things you want because you:
- can build and reuse detailed feedback comment banks containing text, images, links and audio
- spend less time explaining the detailed comments to students
- can record audio assessment feedback within Word and saving it in the Word
document
- you remain in control of the emarking process and you can personalise any comment or use
other Word features such as Word comments, Word track changes, revision marks,
Word autotext or Word quick parts
- your detailed comments will be more understandable as they are
legible, detailed, and can contain links to supporting web sites
- you can highlight a phrase and then click the Google it
button to do a quick plagiarism test or search for additional
information
- your marking and grading will be more consistent, from the first to the last assignment
- marks will be automatically recorded, totalled, and rescaled reducing
errors and appeals
- you can reduce your carbon footprint by using less paper and returning
assignments via email
rather than post
- you can easily identify modified revisions in resubmitted assignments if
the student uses Word track changes
Course examiners and moderators will also benefit because:
- you can prepare marking rubrics containing detailed assessment criteria
and standards to assist contract markers to quickly grade
the assignments
- your detailed comment banks will help markers provide constructive, effective,
and appropriate assessment comments
- all markers will have the same foundation comments which they can then
modify
- the automated marking rubrics will reduce errors and increase
consistency when adding and rescaling marks
- the "harvest" facility allows you to quickly scan folders of marked
assignments to review and reuse comments, revisions and marks from contract markers
- comment banks and marking rubrics can be stored with assessment details for
future reuse
And student use of feedback increases because:
- the detailed comments can go beyond identifying problems to explaining
the issue and providing links to ways to resolve it in future
- the comments can contain images, tables, links and audio
- the comments can explicitly ask the student to rework the section or to
use the supplied information in future
- audio comments in the assignment can provide encouragement in a novel
and attention getting format
- assignment turnaround time will be quicker
- electronic submission and return of assignments is both timely,
practical and convenient
The following graph demonstrates that students more positively valued
feedback on assignments that were marked using eMarking Assistant.
