CloudDeakin: Assessment and Feedback 

CloudDeakin assessment and feedback options enables you to create quizzes, assignments, rubrics, and facilitate feedback activities using assessment submission spaces. This suite of tools enables you to effectively manage student progress, provide timely feedback, and enhance the overall learning experience.

The assessment and feedback options allow users to: 

Select the tool that will support the assessment and feedback purpose;
Streamline the feedback process for timely feedback; and
Leverage the different features to enhance feedback loops.

AI elements

CloudDeakin currently does not have AI features enabled. For information on potential future features, click on ‘Find Out More’ below.

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Formative and summative assessment ensure learning has taken place, while feedback actively improves student learning outcomes. The features within CloudDeakin support these processes and support you to achieve your desired outcomes.

List of functions

Key features of CloudDeakin Assessment and Feedback are:

- Create, update and monitor Quizzes for formative and summative assessment;
- Increase feedback loops with automatic grading;
- Set up and manage Assignments;
- Create assessment Groups with a shared file space and filter for marking;
- Create rubrics with quick links for students to access;
- Provide group and individual feedback; and
- Supports multiple file types.

The following are widely used third-party tools:

- Feedback Fruits: Peer Review facilitates feedback setup, rubric design and analytics to ensure effective feedback loops with.
- Turnitit: Used for students to determine their similarity scores. Add QuickMarks to create a library of feedback that may be applicable on multiple occasions.
  Please note: Turnitin does not recognised AI-generated content.

Support resources

Deakin Resources:  

CloudDeakin Guides: An overview of CloudDeakin’s Assignment features. Navigate through the section to find out more about how to leverage the features mentioned above. 

Additional Resources: 

Deakin University Assessment Policy and Practices: This procedure outlines the standards for the design and implementation of assessment in Deakin University courses.  

Examples

The use cases below showcase some ways in which you can leverage CloudDeakin and the features within for assessment and feedback:  

Manage Assessment and Feedback

Assignment drop box – prepare submission spaces for student assessment upload

As a teacher I can use the Assignment function in CloudDeakin to develop formative or summative assessments aligned to real-world problems, ready to manually grade and provide targeted feedback.

My students can apply key concepts to propose solutions to real-world problems and submit their assessments to receive feedback.

Example design considerations for preparing Assignment submission spaces in CloudDeakin:

Consider and prepare appropriate and fair restrictions when setting up a submission folder, including deadlines, number of files permitted, similarity reporting.
Plan how you will provide feedback in a way that students can use it to improve their performance.

Quiz preparation – provide a formative knowledge checkpoint

As a teacher I can build formative assessment activities with feedback so students can assess their conceptual understanding and access relevant support/extension materials.

My students can engage with the quizzes to receive formative feedback on their learning of core concepts, to self-assess areas where they may require study assistance.

Example design considerations for preparing Quizzes in CloudDeakin:

While quizzes can be used as summative assessment tasks, consider the advantages of using a quiz as a formative tool. Quizzes can be used to iteratively assess students conceptual understanding to help reinforce learning of core concepts.
Consider the most useful question types for your content, such as multiple-choice, multiple-answer, short-answer, written, or calculation-type questions.
Embed feedback and automatic grading for formative quiz activities.
Even if it takes a little longer to setup initially, ensure automated feedback is meaningful (e.g. “You may have chosen this answer as it relates to X, however, this has been disproven by Y. Recent developments indicate Z, for example, Smith and Nguyen (2020) page 45.”).

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