Blackboard training - The assignment tool and good teaching practices
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The document provides an overview of the Assignment tool in Blackboard and best practices for its use. It describes the tool's capabilities like allowing students to submit work online and receive feedback, as well as limitations. It discusses using assignments to support active learning, give prompt feedback, emphasize time on task, communicate high expectations, and respect diverse talents. The document also addresses academic honesty and provides examples of assignment types and a discussion of good teaching practices.
Blackboard training - The assignment tool and good teaching practices
- 1. Live your life. Create your destiny. The Assignment tool and Good Teaching Practices
- 2. Live your life. Create your destiny. Learning Outcomes Understand and learn how the Assignment tool works Understand and learn the educational benefits of the Assignment tool Learn how to set up/design an assessment submission area/Assignment Learn how to use/implement the Assignment tool within a course Define Assignment best practice techniques and tips Learn about Academic honesty and plagiarism
- 3. Live your life. Create your destiny. Description of the Assignment tool •It allows students to submit work _____ •It allows lecturers to download, grade and provide _________ on submissions. •It encourages students to reflect on their feedback before they see their grade. •It allows lecturers to exchange ___________ with students in an organized fashion. online feedback documents
- 4. Live your life. Create your destiny. Capabilities, features and benefits of the Assignment tool •Students submit their response to the assignment - can attach a file and include additional information •Provide feedback for each student (viewed online when checking grades) •Provide students an option of saving an assignment that is still in progress •Download the submissions from an entire class simultaneously through the Grade Centre • The option to grade and comment on assignments without even downloading them •Convenient grading - assignment items are automatically entered into Grade Centre
- 5. Live your life. Create your destiny. Capabilities, features and benefits of the Assignment tool •Deploy assignments individually or to groups of students •Submit multiple attempts for the same assignment – each attempt graded and commented on individually •Can give specific students an additional attempt at an assignment in order to accommodate extenuating circumstances •SafeAssign - feature to deter student plagiarism by identifying derivative content in student papers •Submission history - Provides a quick recap of the submission content, feedback, comments, grades and participants of each submission •Blackboard automatically creates a column in the grade center for any assignments the instructor creates
- 6. Live your life. Create your destiny. Limitations of the Assignment tool •An assignment may not always copy over when copying content into a new course > may have to be recreated •Requires more set-up time. •Display assignment content in the assignments page - Assignment file and instructions are displayed after clicking the name of the assignment. Better to display the content in the assignments page before view complete link •Work that cannot be (or is not) prepared electronically, students must digitise it before submitting it (e.g. paper-based assignments may have to be scanned) •For work that is not marked electronically, or viewed on a screen whilst marked, a process will be needed to print it out and distribute it > negates the administrative benefits of online submission
- 7. Live your life. Create your destiny. Limitations of the Assignment tool Discussion Questions & comments
- 8. Live your life. Create your destiny. Good Teaching Practices the Assignment tool supports •Good Practice: Uses Active Learning Techniques •Good Practice: Gives Prompt Feedback •Good Practice: Emphasizes Time on Task •Good Practice: Communicates High Expectations •Good Practice: Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning
- 9. Live your life. Create your destiny. Additional Resource All resources available in electronic format PDF document: Tips and best practices for the Assignment tool
- 10. Live your life. Create your destiny. Pedagogical Issues Academic honesty and plagiarism http://www.docstoc.com/docs/9481395/Academic-Honesty-and-Plagiarism http://www.uhd.edu/library/guides/plagiarism.html http://academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au/plagiarism.html http://www.charleslipson.com/Reading-Writing-Plagiarism-and-Academic- Honesty.htm#Anti-plagiarismResources
- 11. Live your life. Create your destiny. Examples of using the Assignment tool •Students are given a scenario/practical issue to solve according to the theory taught in class •Students may be required to do an exploratory study/assignment on worked not yet covered in class, or work not mentioned in the syllabus
- 12. Live your life. Create your destiny. GTP & examples discussion Group Discussion & Reflection