Moodle My Feedback: Assessment reports for staff and students Jessica Matt MoodleMoot IE/UK 2016

Moodle My Feedback Report Allows students and staff to easily view grades & feedback across Moodle courses. It is available from Moodle.org as an open source plugin.

Project Aims Raise the visibility of feedback to students & staff to identify areas for improvement. Increase staff adoption of Moodle to provide fast, quality and consistent feedback.

Shows feedback for: Moodle Assignments (including offline and group) Turnitin Assignments (v1 & 2) Quizzes Workshops (for peer assessments) Manual grade items Feedback for further modules can be added as required (with code adjustments). What it does

What it looks like now

What it looks like now

Available from My profile Activity reports How you access it

Also available from the course gradebook How you access it

My feedback available from the Moodle My Home page. And this block had also been added to Moodle courses.

Benefits for students Students can work with their personal tutors to: Access their grades and feedback quickly* 3, 7. Easily see grading criteria/rubrics (where available)* 2. Compare feedback across assessments to find commonalities* 9. Reflect on how to improve in future assessments* 10. *

Benefits for module tutors Tutors can see feedback and grades for courses they teach to: check students’ progress. identify those who need extra support. check students have acted upon previous feedback. see when students view their feedback. space assessments across the term *4. *

My Feedback Report project One stream of a wider integration programme. Pilot in UCL Moodle started in October 2015 with ~750 students. Further development ongoing during pilot. Full rollout across UCL expected in Project Team: Project Manager Business Analyst Technical Lead Moodle developer Business Advisor

What do students say? From 752 students we have only had 34 responses to our survey so far, but it is still open so we hope to get more. 8 students from a range of departments provided written feedback.

What do students say? Still difficult to find feedback (2). Some problems with different dates shown in report compared to Moodle (1) – Nb. fixed. “The class mean could at times be encouraging but also demotivating” (1). Probably wouldn’t use action plan or self-reflecting notes (2), as I concentrate my time on the course material (1).

What students asked for? More feedback (3). See grades straight away (2). Previous years feedback & class mean (1). Notification when feedback is given (1). A way to more easily inform staff if quizzes contain mistakes in the correct answer/feedback (1).

Thoughts on the student’s comments so far There is a risk the report simply highlights a lack of feedback, at least in electronic form. Students seem confused about whether the report is malfunctioning, or they really have little to no feedback. Reminders for feedback using the Moodle event monitoring system (turned off due to potential performance issues).event monitoring system

Some ideas we’re considering What’s next? Mockup courtesy of Matt Smith, Learning Technologist, UCL Management Science & Innovation

New features: Current and past year’s feedback. Summative and formative assessments. Performance score (relative to class mean). Programme administrators view: Full overview of department’s students. Assessment Calendar to enable assessments to be spaced out. UCL wide rollout. What’s next?

Useful links Background study leading to development of this plugin: link.lkl.ac.uk/jisc-ac-techreport link.lkl.ac.uk/jisc-ac-techreport My feedback overview: My feedback plugin download: My feedback GitHub code repository (should you want to contribute to its development or report any bugs/enhancement requests):

Acknowledgements The ideas forming this plugin originate with: Prof John Mitchell - Vice Dean Education (Engineering) Dr Jason Davies – Senior Teaching Fellow in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) Questions? Jessica E-Learning Facilitator, E-Learning Advisory UCL Information Services Division