Technology Enhanced Learning
Efficient Feedback in Sulis
Facilitator: Angelica Risquez
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Challenges and ideas for providing FB: discussion
Five principles of effective feedback
Practical ideas
Tools in Sulis that integrate FB
Automated FB: Test and Quizzes
Not automated FB:
 With small classes: Assignment tool, Discussion Forum and
Forums
 With large classes: Feedback tool
 Integrating all your grades: Gradebook/Markbook
Challenges of providing FB
 What challenges you encounter?
 Mid term multiple choice with large class, how to do
something else and provide FB to more than 400
students
 Content of FB: positive FB and time consuming
 Higher level thinking requires higher level questions that
require time grading
Practical solutions
What do you do/would like to do to provide better FB?
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Five principles of effective FB
Phil Race
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/aso/learningandteaching/id432_usi
ng_feedback.pdf
Timely: ideally a day or two
Intimate and individual: in large classes, at least private
Empowering: careful with critical FB, remember balance of power
Feedback should open doors, not close them: mind adjectives
(e.g. “weak”, “poor”, “excellent”)… use detail
 Manageable: beware of too much FB for your workload and for
students’ (important FB vs routine FB)
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Tools in Sulis that integrate FB
 Automated FB
 Test and Quizzes (and the new Tasks, Tests and Surveys tool):
automated FB and grading for correct/incorrect answers
 Not automated (manual) FB
 Assignments: lecturer can upload FB and grading
 Discussion Forum and Forum: lecturer can grade individual posts
 Feedback: lecturer upload Excel spreadsheet with qualitative or
quantitative FB for the class, students get only their own FB
 Gradebook/Markbook: amalgamates FB from all previous
tools, and also external grades (e.g. class presentations,
labs, paper exams, etc)
Tests and Quizzes
Test and Quizzes handout, videos and FAQs in
Sulis Support for Faculty site
Assignments
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Model answers before or after submission
Keep notes for yourself or to share with other lecturer/TA
All purpose items for general FB
Grading options:
 Letter grades, points, checkmarks, pass/fail grades, ungraded, and assign a
default grade to all students who have not received a grade
 Students can access your comments as well as their grades.
 Grade report: with all grades, downloadable to Excel.
 You can share grading responsibilities with other lectures/TAs. You all
can add feedback to the same student's work.
 Grades are sent to Gradebook/Markbook
Assignments handout, videos and FAQs in Sulis
Support for Faculty site
Discussion Forum
 Grading by forum and topic: you may grade each
student’s participation in discussions across all
topics in a given forum or within a single topic. You
may also leave comments, even when participation
is not being graded.
 Grades are sent to Gradebook/Markbook
 Similar functionality in Forums tool
Discussion Forum and Forums handout, videos
and FAQs in Sulis Support for Faculty site
Feedback tool
 Instructor posts individual FB (grades and comments) to
students in one step for the whole class
 Possible uses:
 Traditional FB on assignments or projects
 FB to team members to track their progress toward goals.
 General messages to targeted students, for example those who
did not submit a project
 Substitute of the Gradebook/Markbook tool, for students to see
midterm or final grades
Feedback handout, videos and FAQs in Sulis
Support for Faculty site
Gradebook/Markbook
 Very powerful, but complex. Get some training/check handout before
using!!!
 Brings grades from Assignments, Discussion Forums, Forum, Test
and Quizzes, and Task, Tests and Survey tools
 You can also integrate “out of Sulis” grades such as presentations,
labs, exams, etc.
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Auto-calculate overall module grades
Create categories so you can give assignments different grades.
Work with grades for a specific group in your class
Enter, view, edit, and release scores, comments, and grades to students.
Export/import scores and grades to/from Microsoft Excel in .csv format.
Give individual teaching assistants unique permissions within the Gradebook.
Gradebook handout, videos and FAQs in Sulis
Support for Faculty site
Questions?
 Instructor guides for each tool available in Sulis
Support for Faculty site
 Any questions to be logged by staff (not students)
through Netdesk (http://inside/itdservicedesk)
 CTL available for private consultations, tutorials,
etc.