New BlackBoard ToolSet: Safe Assign, Module Evaluation & TextTools FoC Student Experience (L&T) Meeting Thursday 10 Feb T9-05 Peter Chalk & Mehryar Adibpour

Safe Assign Student centred Draft essay plagiarism check Built into WebLearn SafeSubmit for plagiarism check of final submission

Create or add a SafeAssign submission using Build Tool

Teacher view of student view – one OK, 7% is refs; one plagiarised 66%

Analysis shows matching text: by %age and in blue; and source URL

& the 7% ?

“I particularly like the idea of ‘safe assign’, which is a program developed to help both students and tutors see whether a piece of work is plagiarised. For the student, it gives them a chance to check their work for signs of plagiarism before handing it in. In an article [1] on avoiding plagiarism thejournal.com states, “it generates a report that identifies what percentage of the paper may be lifted from somewhere else”. I believe I will find this a very useful tool for me to use in my future education. 1 Susan McLester, 25/01/2011, “The Accidental Plagiarists” accessed from Accidental-Plagiarists.aspx?Page=2 on 04/ ” Student View (CC1H01N CW essay)

Module Evaluation in WebLearn Developed by Mehryar Adibppour In J.../FoC L&T/SEMs Questions zip file goes into WebLearn: –Designer tool, –Manage course, –import, then –upload the zip file

Analysis and presentation of results Excel spreadsheet analysis and presentation tool Copy and paste data into Tab (Sheet) 1 Results automatically displayed in Tab 2 Percentages and Pie Charts Including free text comments

Creating questionnaire in WebLearn Zip of questionnaire imported into WebLearn Unzip to Question Database Set up Assessment Survey Add all questions

Assessment/ survey:

Download and copy questionnaire results into tab 1 – tab 2 shows results

TxtTools Text students about urgent events Get feedback Use in class – ‘ask the audience’ Company recently bought by BlackBoard Previously used in pilot; also recently by LMBS and others; and now FoC Chrisina Jayne has account admin rights Module leaders, course ldrs, PAAs...

Grab students from SITS, turnstile file, or enter one-by-one (!); as a group; text individually or as group; reply needs codeword for lecturer

Groups are listed; type 160 chars (like twitter; send; replies can be ed to you

Summary New uni policy – all staff to have weblearn toolkit: –Safe Assign –Module evaluation –TxtTools –......are all examples of what we need in our toolkit, as appropriate to each module