New BlackBoard ToolSet:Safe Assign, Module Evaluation & TextTools
FoC Student Experience (L&T) Meeting
Thursday 10 Feb 2011 1-2 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
&the7%?
“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 http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/01/25/The-Accidental-Plagiarists.aspx?Page=2 on 04/02-2011”
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 emailed 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