Introduction

In this article we will walk you through how to use Assignment Review from the perspective of a teacher.

If you’d like more information on how this tool works, you can check out other articles here:

• Assignment Review: For Teachers (Setting Up)

• Assignment Review: Overview

• Assignment Review: For Students​

   

Tool In Action

How this article is structured

This article walks you through the steps of an Assignment Review activity, following the same flow as the tool itself. It will describe the process of using the active assignment. This refers to what happens after the assignment is published and available to students. It covers monitoring student progress, viewing submissions, giving feedback, and reviewing outcomes.

Note: When you open a published activity, you’ll land on the Active Assignment view by default. To return to the setup view after publishing, click Edit in the upper-left corner of the activity.
You can see the article about Setting Up this tool here.

Accessibility

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Overall Student Progress

Please note that this section is only available in the Active Assignment view. It will not appear while you are setting up the activity and will only become available after the activity has been published.

At the top of the assignment, you will see the Overall student progress overview. Click on Statistics per active student to see individual students' progress. Here, you can see if students have read the instructions, handed in their work, read their feedback and finally, if students have written their reflections, if enabled.

Click on the headers in each column to change the order (ascending or descending) in which students are displayed. You can also click Fullscreen to pop out the full display of student progress.

The check marks under read instructions and submissions mean that that student has finished the step. The light green dot means the student has not read the instructions or submitted his file yet. If you see a red dot, this means the student has missed the deadline for handing in.

Under the Given Reviews and Received Reviews headers, you will find the completion status of each review for each student. If a student has completed the module, it will display ✔ Completed instead of a percentage.

It is also possible to export all the student data into an excel file. This file contains information concerning review ratings, review comments and grading. You can download this export by clicking on the EXPORT ANALYTICS button in the overall student progress window.

Step 1: Instructions

Here, you can view the instructions you wrote while setting up the assignment. You can edit them by clicking on the Edit button in the top right corner of the screen.

Step 2: Submissions

Once the assignment has been set up, this step provides an overview of which students’ have completed their hand-in. It also provides information on whether it is handed in on time and how many days prior to the deadline. The files handed in shows the documents that the student has submitted.

If the deadline has passed, but you want students to be able to still submit their work, you can edit the assignment, and either change the deadline, give a deadline extension to a specific student or enable allow late hand-in.

Student submissions can also be accessed directly from the assignment. There are two ways to do this:

1. Click on the View Submissions option located below the grade percentage. This will open a new page displaying submissions in the order they were submitted.

2. In the row corresponding to a student's name, click on the file listed in the Files Handed In column to see their submissions. Select View to open the submitted work. This way is ideal if you want to review a specific student's submission.

Note: If the student has submitted a video, you will see the video player instead of the document.

Clicking the View button will direct you to the following page:

If the student submitted a video, a video player will appear instead of a document. Clicking the Open button will allow you to access their file.
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Step 3: Give feedback on student work

In the active assignment, you can view an overview of your progress in providing feedback on your students' work. This includes your review status, progress in evaluating student submissions, the list of reviewers (if other teachers are also using this tool), review comments received, and the files submitted by students.

To begin, click the purple Start Reviewing button (or Continue Reviewing if you've already started) to review students' submissions in the order they were submitted. Alternatively, if you prefer to review specific students or are collaborating with another instructor, hover over the area next to a student's name, and a Review button will appear.

When you click Review, you will be directed to the reviewing page. Here, you can see the name of the student you are currently reviewing, your progress below their name, their submission, and the feedback criteria you configured in the settings when you scroll down. You can then start providing your review.

If other teachers are assigned to review the same student, you can switch between reviews using the Show feedback given by option. You can choose to view all reviews, only your feedback, or feedback from a specific colleague. This feature is helpful for comparing your feedback with that of other teachers.

This is the end of the review step. You are able to exit the screen by pressing the arrow button on the top left or continue to the next student by pressing the next student button at the bottom on the top right. You can also download the feedback by clicking the download icon next to full screen icon.

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Step 4: Received Reviews

In this step, you can track which students have read their received reviews, identify those who still need to review all their feedback, view the time each student spent on each review, and see the average number of comments they received from teachers.

Step 5: Reflect on Activity (optional)

Writing a reflection is a valuable step to end an assignment with. The student can for instance write a reflection on how the whole process of giving feedback went. The teacher sees this reflection in an overview in step 5 as shown in the image below.

Here, the teacher can see which groups and specific students have made progress on completing their reflection. Only students and groups with progress in this step are shown. To view all of their reflections, press the View Reflections button. If you'd like to read the reflection of a specific student, clicking on View next to the name of the student will show you their reflection.

Grading

In this step, you have to access a comprehensive overview detailing the grades of each student within the system.

If the teacher has included grading in the settings, it will be visible after the last step. The image below shows what that will look like. By clicking on the arrow on the right or using the scroll bar at the bottom, the teacher can view the rest of the grade sections (from left to right). On the far right there is also an optional grade adjustment . This allows the teacher to add or subtract points for each student. Click on Fullscreen to get a better view.