Re: [Bodington-developers] Peer Marking tool

[Paul T. <pau...@ou...>]

Aggie,

We upgraded WebLearn today and have at the top of our new features the
Peer Marking tool :-)  Just wondering if you've produced any
documentation in addition to the notes you provided below...? 

Regards,

Paul

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Paul Trafford
WebLearn Administrator
Oxford University Computing Services
pau...@ou...
01865 283429

Details of WebLearn's latest release:
http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/info/announce/2_14/
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On 10/11/2006 16:05, Andrew Booth wrote:
> Colin
>
> Here's a few points about the peer marker.
>
>
> The peer marker assumes that there are markers, candidates for marking and
> one or more moderators. The markers and candidates may be in different
> groups or in the same group.
>
> Markers must have mark privilege.
> Candidate must have post permission.
> Moderators must have manage privilege.
>
> A user can be both a marker and a candidate. Whether he/she can mark him/her
> self is a property of the peer marker.
>
> When you create a peer marker, you have the option of  allowing marking only
> once, or allowing markers to re-mark and also the option to disallow
> self-marking.
>
> The peer marker tool allows you to create/edit items for marking.  These
> will usually take the form of a marking instruction and a marking range. A
> typical marking instruction would be: 'Please give a mark between zero
> (worst) and 10 (best) that you think represents the contribution that each
> member has made to the group's discussion.'  You can add more items, each
> with its own instruction and marking range.
>
> When a marker accesses the peer marker, for each item they see a list of
> names of the persons whose work is to be marked.  
>
> Note that the work to be marked is entirely separate from the peer marker -
> it can be a discussion, work upload to a pigeonhole, a website. It can even
> be an activity outside Bodington.  
>
> The marker sets marks for each candidate and then records the marks.  If the
> marker has review privilege, he/she can review the marks he/she has given.
> If 'Marking allowed only once' (a peer marker property) is unchecked, then
> he/she can change the marks he/she has given.
>
> (I check 'Marking allowed only once' and uncheck 'Marking self allowed'.)
>
> The marks can be reviewed and moderated by a moderator, who must have manage
> permission.  He/she can get a list of the marks given by each marker, the
> marks received by each candidate, or an overall summary of the marks.  The
> moderator can change any of the marks, can disallow individual marks, or can
> disallow all of a marker's marks.  This is necessary when allowing students
> to peer-mark, as not all of the students will take the marking seriously.
>
> When the moderator is satisfied that the marks represent a fair assessment
> of each candidate, he/she can examine a summary of marks across all peer
> marker tools at the same level in the hierarchy (so if you have several peer
> marker  tools, one for each of a set of groups, you can all of their marks
> in one go.)  Moderated marks will be shown in red and disallowed marks will
> be indicated with an X.
>
> The moderator can also export the marks as a CSV file for further
> manipulation in Excel etc.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Aggie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bod...@li...
> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Colin Tatham
> Sent: 10 November 2006 14:51
> To: Bodington developers
> Subject: [Bodington-developers] Peer Marking tool
>
> Hi Aggie
>
> We're in the process of adding the Peer Marking tool to WebLearn -- all
> looks great so far. At this 
> stage we need to provide a brief overview of how it works (and how it could
> be used in conjunction 
> with other Bod resources). Do you have any notes that we could elaborate on,
> rather than starting 
> from scratch?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Colin
>
>