Feedback and assessment should empower learners to improve their performance. Assessments are integral to learning because they provide teachers and learners with data that will help them improve. When done well, it allows learners to reflect on their own progress, and will help them identify strategies to become better. How can you give better feedback? Here are some tips:
Be consistent with the goals. Make sure you framed the assignment well by adding a rubric, sharing expectations, or aligning it with learning goals. Use those expectations as starting points for the feedback you will give.
Comment on the process and product. If your assignment is designed in an authentic manner, both the process and the product would be aligned in your rubrics and learning goals. Providing feedback to the product tells learners how “good” looks like. It also provides them feedback on their learning journey by answering the question, “What steps did I do well, and which ones can I improve next time?”
Offer next steps. Identify action steps that will help the learner acquire a higher level of proficiency. This makes the feedback useful, encouraging learners to become better.
Providing feedback to work assigned to your students can be done by accessing the Grades tab. You can also send a private comment to the students to give them feedback. They can then reply to your comment to open a conversation about the feedback you provided.
Grading submissions using rubrics will help you in providing scores to your students’ submissions and clear feedback on how well you think they performed on a specific task. Here’s how to grade the submissions using rubrics:
Go to the assignment. You can check if a rubric is assigned to this assignment by going to the Edit page.
You can view all of the submissions by clicking on the Turned in button. You will see all of the submissions once you’ve clicked the button.
You can then click all of your students and see all of their submissions. Under the submission, you can see the different performance levels you’ve indicated in your rubric. Grade the student accordingly by selecting one of the boxes for each performance level.
Once you’ve selected the appropriate performance levels, press the three-dot icon beside the grade and press Return. This will send the grade you gave your student along with any private comments you sent them.