Assessment

Adding assessments to courses

The Marking and feedback process is still completed in our learning management system ‘Blackboard’. The results of the marking need to be recorded in Aplus+

To enter grades and completion data for a course, a grading system need to be assigned to the qualification.

All of the programmes delivered by Yoobee are competency base the the exception of DMA which has achievement based grades.

Assigning a grading system

(Unnecessary if your campus already has assessments working in APlus+).

This only needs to be done once. Once a grade system is linked to a qualification any course that is created under it will have it linked.

select ‘Link Grade Systems’ from the Campus Admin tab in the main menu bar.
Make sure the correct campus is selected in the top right corner.
You should see a list of two grade systems under the heading Global grade systems click on ‘Competency Based Grades (C,N)’
You may not see any qualification until you change the reporting year to the year the qualification was approved. 2016 or 2017 for the majority of our programmes.
Tick the qualification to assign competency based grades to (everything except DMA)
Click ‘Save Changes’

creating assessments

Assessments can be copied from one course to multiple course and because we are only recording generic pass fail data (not feedback or details of the what the assessment is) we can copy on assessment into all course for all programmes. If a course has more than one assessment then it is best to create them separately and assign weighting correctly, however the can then be copied to other instances of the same course.

Select a course and enter the assessment tab
use the create course dropdown on the right to select ’Summative Assessment’
set the ‘Max Score’ to 1
and the weighting to 100 (if it’s the only assessment in the course)
Click save changes

Copying an assessment to other course

Click ‘Show option form inside the assessment tab of a course
Click ‘Copy ALL assessments to other courses…’ in the dialogue box that appears
Select the ‘School’, ‘Dates’ and ‘Qualifications’ you want to copy to. (you can select multiple qualifications
Click find courses
tick each of the courses you want to copy to
Click validate
if no errors are generated click ‘Copy Now’