LSE supports staff to utilise technology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of assessment and feedback processes. The integration of appropriate digital tools (based upon the affordances of each) throughout the assessment environment can support consistency and standardisation, streamline administrative processes, facilitate more timely and targeted feedback, and enhance the overall student learning experience through accessible and engaging assessment formats.
For any format of assessment, you can consider:
- Could learning technology allow students to better demonstrate their understanding and abilities?
- Could the assessment enable students to develop their critical digital literacies?
- Which technologies can support you in the submission, marking and feedback process?
LSE offers a variety of platforms to make submission, marking and feedback more effective and efficient.
- Gradescope supports problem sets and programming assignments.
- Digiexam enables typed, in-person exams.
- Moodle has multiple tools to support the assessment cycle, for individual and group assessment.
- It is ideal for textual submissions (annotated bibliographies, case studies, essays, policy briefs) and audiovisual submissions (podcasts, posters and videos, including presentations)
- It can host a course wiki for student contributions and comments.
- Moodle also enables different forms of feedback: marking rubrics, directly annotating PDFs files and giving audio feedback
- Turnitin is commonly used as a text-matching tool to support academic integrity. Students can use it to develop their referencing, paraphrasing and citation skills. It can also be used for marking and feedback, particularly where rich feedback is required.
Contact your departmental adviser from the Digital Education team to discuss which technologies could be useful to you.
In the face of rapid advances in technology, it is important also to ensure students are supported to develop their digital skills and literacies. This can be done by designing assessments that are reflective of workplace practices, by embedding digital literacies and ethical considerations into assessment criteria, or by including clear guidelines for data privacy and attribution into assessment briefs.
LSE offers a variety of resources to support students and staff in developing their digital skills: