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
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This only needs to be done once. Once a grade system is linked to a qualificationqualification's intake (eg. YB-2630-1902 NZ Certificate in Fashion (Level 4) (Dov) (2019)) any coursecourses that isare createdincluded underin itthe qualification will have itthe grade system is linked.
There are two type of grade system that are commonly used. Achievement Based Grades (%) or Competency Based Grades (C,N).
to assign an intake to one of these:
- 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
‘CompetencyappropriateBasedgradeGrades (C,N)’system. - You may not see any qualification until you change the reporting year to
the yearmatch thequalificationappropriatewas approved. 2016 or 2017 for the majority of our programmes.intake. - Tick the qualification to assign
competencythebasedgradegradessystemto (everything except DMA)to. - Click ‘Save Changes’.
creating assessments
Assessmentsonce created, assessments can be copied from one course to multiple coursecourse. We use Aplus+ to record only completion and becausegrade we are only recording genericdata, pass or fail data (not feedback or details of the what the assessment is). weA course can copyhave onas assessmentmany intoassessments allas necessary and weighting can be applied.
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To add an assessment to a 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(if1it's a competency based course max score should be 1) andset the appropriate weightingto 100(if it’s the only assessment in thecourse)course this should be set to 100%)- Click save changes
Copying an assessment to other course
Coping an assessment make a duplicate of an assessment in a different course. Useful if multiple intake of a similar programme exist or is there is a single assessment that doesn't need to be uniquely identified in a range of courses.
To copy an assessment:
Click ‘Show option formFrom inside the assessment tab of a course Click ‘Show option- 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
qualificationsqualifications) - Click find courses
- tick each of the courses you want to copy to
- Click validate
- if no errors are generated click ‘Copy Now’