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Assessments
When revisiting your assessments,
- Ensure your learning outcomes align with your assessments
- Revisit methods of assessment and weighting
- Design assessments that maintain academic integrity
While transitioning to a remote environment, some assessments will work with minor adjustments, while others may require a whole new approach. Either way, this is an opportunity to rethink your existing assessments and come up with creative solutions to both .
Ways to adapt
Below are some suggestions for how to adjust assessment in your course.
- Instead of a multiple choice exam testing facts and definitions, consider adapting your questions to reflect higher-order learning and using (PDF file) open book exams (opens in new window) through D2L Brightspace Quizzes (opens in new window) .
- If you are considering virtual proctoring, consider the many associated with this approach.
- face challenges with online timed exams, so we encourage considering an alternative assessment such as a which can be submitted through D2L Brightspace Quizzes (opens in new window) or D2L Brightspace (opens in new window) .
- Before students watch a pre-recorded video of a lab, ask them to write the procedure and their hypotheses and submit it through D2L Brightspace. (opens in new window)
- Provide students with the results of the lab, or a dataset, and ask them to interpret those results through a lab report or graphic representation and submit it through D2L Brightspace. (opens in new window)
- Rather than having students physically performing a lab, ask them to write a step-by-step process of how they would carry out a particular test, and what considerations would they make (e.g., equipment, controls, safety) and submit it through D2L Brightspace. (opens in new window)
- In place of a face-to-face presentation, students can record their presentation and upload it to a shared google drive or D2L Brightspace Assignments (opens in new window) . For groups, students can record their individual components of the presentation. For a synchronous option, students can deliver their presentation in real-time using Google Meet (opens in new window) or Zoom with their screen shared.
- Rather than students presenting their work verbally, students can submit a written script, a detailed outline of their presentation, or their presentation slides with speaker notes through D2L Brightspace Assignments. (opens in new window)
- State expectations, but allow extensions for students who have difficulties meeting deadlines. Be as flexible as possible. Be ready to handle requests for extensions or accommodations equitably.
- Consider saving files in two formats, the original format and an accessible, mobile-friendly format such as PDF.
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