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style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 100%;background-color: #f2f2f2"> <h1><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/course-design/"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt">Course Design</span></a></h1> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li class="first-child"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/course-design/#DP">Design Principles</a>: assessment and awards * programme: quality specifications * course-focussed assessment * accessible and inclusive assessment * resources</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/course-design/#AO">Assessment with ‘online in mind’</a>: formative V summative assessment * digital technologies * ChatGTP software</span></li> <li class="last-child"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/course-design/#LO">Learning Outcomes</a>: description * writing * </span></li> <li class="last-child"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/course-design/#UGD"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">University Grade Descriptors</span></a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(UGD):</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">categorical marking</span></li> </ul> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 100%;background-color: #f2f2f2"> <h1><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt">Setting (module level)</span></a></h1> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li class="first-child"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/#MA">Module assessment</a>: learning outcomes * criteria and type * tasks and methods * verification and moderation</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/#Regs">Regulations:</a> tariff * word limits * university grade descriptors * rubrics </span></li> <li class="last-child"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/#Feed">Feedback:</a> design and types of feedback</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/#Reass">Re-assessments</a>: departmental assessment boards (DABs) * extensions (request to repeat an assessment attempt (RRAA) and request to extend a submission deadline (RESD) * referrals * deferrals * continuing * sub-tasks * in-module retrieval * grade-based assessment</span></li> <li class="last-child"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/setting-module-level/#AS">Assessment scheduling:</a> task clustering * statement * group work * examinations * calendar * to-do list </span></li> </ul> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 100%;background-color: #f2f2f2"> <h1><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/supporting-students/"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt">Supporting students</span></a></h1> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Student / Academic Conduct</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): Disability * Inclusive Practice * International * Race Equity * training and development.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">IT equipment and display screen assessment (DSE)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Student Wellbeing </span></li> </ul> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 100%;background-color: #f2f2f2"> <h1><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt">Submitting / Sitting</span></a></h1> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#SOW">Submission of work</a>: online management * Blackboard * formats * storage * instructions to students * submission: arrangements and points * capping report * in-module retrieval * exceptions * group work * rationale for online submission.</span></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#AAF"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Academic Advising Framework</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#Port">Portfolios</a>: types * student guidance * collected work.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#REC">Receipting</a>: online * other.</span></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#REF"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Referencing</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#OCT"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Originality Checking / Turnitin.</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#DEA"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Deadlines</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#EXAMS"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Examinations</span></a></li> <li class="last-child"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/submitting-sitting/#FB"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt">Feedback </span></a></li> </ul> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 100%;background-color: #f2f2f2"> <h1><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240228235553/https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/assessmentessentials/marking-and-feedback/"><span 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