Step 42: Submissions

This is one of the most useful features (from the teacher's perspective as well). We have managed to enable students to submit their writings online, and the teacher can also grade them online. In the Submissions section, we can specify what kind of evaluation we want to use – there is teacher assessment, peer assessment, and self-assessment. Naturally, we can also assign points to these evaluations right away (we can specify a total of 5 criteria, and assign points for each one individually), which will be credited to the student as soon as we finish grading.

Tips: Although there are three different assessment methods, they are not mandatory; we can choose just one or two. This can be specified when creating the assignment. We can also assign different point values to each assessment method, meaning that teacher assessment could be worth, for example, 500 points, while self-assessment might initially be worth only 100 points. It’s advisable to carefully weigh these at the beginning.

For peer assessment, we can specify how many students will be assigned to evaluate the essay. It is important that neither the student grading the work knows whose work they are assessing, nor do they know who evaluated their submission. Thus, decisions will be based on performance rather than popularity or friendship. Of course, the teacher can see everything and can modify or delete the results later if needed.

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