Presenter(s): Thomas King & Mary-Ann Fife 

Collecting and organising your course data is important for institutional reporting, allowing students to track their own progress, and allowing you to identify struggling students or groups for early intervention. Having a well-designed, comprehensive Gradebook is fundamental to being able to access and interpret these kinds of course and assessment data.  

In this workshop, we’ll focus on how to optimise your Grades tool to serve as a comprehensive and usable data collection and management tool, starting with making the best use of the settings in the tool, to linking to internal and external assessment tools, to incorporating automatic functions for reporting and communication purposes.

While the workshop uses examples from large classes, we would encourage all lecturers, administrators and other staff involved in teaching to attend. It will be a practical workshop – please bring laptops and course outlines to work with during the session.

This workshop forms part of CILT’s Amathuba Accelerate project, which supports lecturers in making the best use of the Amathuba platform by providing in-depth, personalised consultation to identify problems or areas for improvement in course sites – from getting useful information on class performance through using the Grades tool, to refining assessments and grading procedures through Rubrics, to reworking the structure and flow of learning materials within the course. 

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