Exploring ways on e-marking and e-feedback with iPads and apps for written essays Mercedes Coca, Language Coordinator (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan) Rocío Díaz, Spanish Coordinator (UCL) Lourdes Hernandez-Martin, Language Coordinator (Arabic and Spanish Projects)
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Exploring ways on e-marking and e-feedback with iPads
and apps for written essays
Mercedes Coca, Language Coordinator (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan)Rocío Díaz, Spanish Coordinator (UCL)
Lourdes Hernandez-Martin, Language Coordinator (Arabic and Spanish Projects)
Aims of project
• To explore the benefits and drawbacks for teachers (time involved, technology needed, management of the marking process, etc.)
• To explore the benefits and drawbacks for students (time involved to submit documents in PDF or electronically, clarity of marking notes, perceptions vis-a-vis traditional marking, etc.)
Why iPads?
• Portability of this device
• To retain a degree of parity over traditional marking practice and electronic marking practices (i.e. being able to mark in a cafe, in the train)
• To replicate their existent marking and feedback systems
• To avoid the physical demands of on-screen marking (i.e. back, wrist and neck strain) experienced already by the participants
Apps to annotate PDF
Apps Notability i-Annotate GoodNotes Turnitin PDF-NOTES within Moodle
Cost
Features Type of file
Voice comment
Others
Storage Dropbox
Google Drive
Returning feedback
Dropbox sync + Moodle
Others
Average of hours to become familiar with iPad and application
Open iTunes account 30 minutes
Get familiar with iPad 2 hours
Try more than one application to get familiar with annotating applications and choose the one which suits your marking system
4 hours
Getting familiar with application and adapting application to marking system
10 hours (includes creation of stamps and naming stamps)
Storing and file management issues
1 hour
Returning work issues 1 hour
Samples with iPad and iAnnotate. Weekly essays
iPad and iAnnotate. Essay 2
Electronic Management Assessment for weekly essays(https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/electronic-management-of-assessment)
iPad• Portability• None or reduced physical strain wrists, arms and back• Paperless• The security of having the mark pieces backed up on an online system• Marking process speed for some participants
App• Possibility to include comments not only in the margins or at the end but within text• Encourage creation of rubrics and therefore, reusing common comments• Marking offline• Different writing tools
Process• The applications used are suitable and adaptable for participants’ marking style • Encourage reflection on marking and feedback• Improvements in feedback: clarity and more detailed• Essays always available• Extracting and analysing data held
Teachers
Shared drawbacks
iPad• Capacity of the device does not allow to keep all students´ files• Non acceptance of external input• Use of cloud needed• Cloud security issues• One of the three teachers needed a keyboard
App• Lack of information on applications tools• Time needed to get familiar with application tools• Time needed to replicate the marking/feedback systems • Time needed to get familiar with storage and return of feedback
Process• Increase administrative burden. Extra time spent on managing files• Chasing up students who do not submit files into the right format (double spaced,
PDF)• Using personal storage space in the cloud
Students. 2015-2016LN121: 10 out of 18 - LN122: 8 out of 9 - LN120: 18 out of 19 - Total: 36 students
LN121-beginners LN122-intermediate LN120-advanced All courses0
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Writing process
By hand Typing Don't mind
Students
LN121-beginners LN122-intermediate LN120-advanced All courses0
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Handing essays to teacher
In class Via Moodle Don't mind
Students
LN121-beginners LN122-intermediate LN120-advanced All courses0