How do we apply these principles and practices for online courses?
This section highlights considerations and available tools for marking, providing feedback, and submitting grades online, focusing on Avenue to Learn.
Avenue to Learn: Rubrics
Avenue to Learn: Assignments
There are Annotation Tools that can be enabled within Avenue to Learn by ticking the box for “Make annotation tools available for assessment” (found at the bottom of the page) when creating or editing an assignment submission folder. With these tools enabled, you can highlight text, draw, and leave comments in various formats on documents submitted by students within the evaluation screen. It is important to note, however, that these annotations are not fully accessible and cause issues with some screen readers.
Avenue to Learn: Grades
Summary
Let’s return to the question we posed at the start of this section: How do we apply these principles and practices for online courses?
We can now provide the following answers:
- Keep records and back-up copies of your grading
- Maintain confidentiality and security with respect to student work
- Use, adapt, and adopt new strategies for ensuring your marking is effective, efficient, objective, consistent, and constructive
- As appropriate, and with instructor consent, make use of Avenue to Learn’s features
- Rubrics
- Assignments
- Grades