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These pages were co-developed by:

Digital Learning Service (part of Library and Learning Services)
Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT)

We've unified our collective advice and guidance so that you can find it more easily and work through teaching and learning processes from curriculum design to using online tools in a more structured way.

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Course Principles

CLT has produced some sets of reflective questions that may be helpful to course teams who are currently redesigning, modifying and enhancing courses. Based on research-informed principles, these questions are designed to support course teams to reflect on current practice, identify activities that make the biggest difference to student continuation, completion and success, and increase L&T effectiveness.
The principles relate to student agency, inclusive learning, valid assessment, effective teaching and feedback, course identity and course coherence. A Guide to Student Continuation, Completion and Success
Online marking

Online marking can allow you to provide feedback to students in a range of ways such as inline comments, video and audio comments. The feedback can then be accessed by students both on and off campus and at a time of day that suits them, making it more accessible. Providing comments and marks electronically allows moderators and external examiners to review the work in a time and place that is efficient for them, removing the need for all parties to coordinate to submit, collect or return a single physical copy on campus. Audio feedback can add personalisation and more nuanced comments for the students to take forward.

There are a number of university supported systems that can help you to undertake online marking and feedback, such as Turnitin, Blackboard assignments and Pebblepad. You can find out more about which system might be best for your assessment in our online assessment and feedback mapping diagram.

For more information about how to use Turnitin, view our Turnitin guides. Information about how to use the Blackboard assignment tool is available in our Blackboard assignment guide, along with a comparison of the two tools.