Introduction

In this article we will walk you through how to use Learning Collection from the perspective of a teacher, once the activity is live. This tool lets your students bring together work from across their courses into a single curated collection, reflect on it, and submit it for assessment, so you can evaluate their learning holistically rather than from one final deliverable.

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

• Learning Collection: For Teachers (Setting Up)

• Learning Collection: Overview

• Learning Collection: For Students

   

Tool In Action

How this article is structured

This article walks you through the steps of a Learning Collection 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 what students do once the activity is live, and how you review and assess their submitted collections.

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

We're devoted to making our tools as accessible as possible for all learners - to read more about accessibility in FeedbackFruits tools, check this article: Accessibility: Within FeedbackFruits Tools.
 

Overall Student Progress

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 the individual overall grade collected, if the students have read the instructions, finished the self-assessment, and finally if the students have read their self-evaluation.

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.

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: Student collections

Once the activity is live, students build their collection by selecting activities from across their courses, optionally reflect on the whole collection and on individual activities, preview it, and submit. Submitting locks the collection, and their work is saved as a snapshot at the moment of submission. For the full student experience, see Learning Collection: For Students.

Step 3: Give Feedback on Student Collection

In the active assignment, you can view an overview of your progress in providing feedback on your students' collections. 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 collections submitted by students.

Additionally, you can open a student's collection to see:

• The student's reflection on the collection as a whole
• Each activity they included, expandable to show the underlying submissions, comments, and ratings
• Any per-activity reflections the student added

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.
Provide your assessment against the criteria you configured - select a rating on each criterion and add written comments - then move between students using Previous and Next. Your review progress is shown as you go.

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.

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.

Good to Know

• Instructions do two jobs. Use the general instructions for overall purpose and expectations, and the student-collection instructions for the specifics of what the collection should contain.
• Set a minimum for evidence. The required number of activities ensures students submit enough work to assess meaningfully.
• Uploads are yours to control. Students can only add files from their computer if you enable uploading, and you decide which file types are allowed.
• Collections are a snapshot. Once a student submits, their collection is locked and frozen as it was at submission, so you assess a stable set of evidence.
• Multiple assessors are supported. A collection can be assessed by more than one assessor independently, and you control when assessment results are released to students.
• Familiar configuration. If you've set up Peer Review or Feedback Request before, the criteria and deadline setup will feel very similar.