<p>The submission of example pieces of work by the teacher is optional
and for certain assignments may not be appropriate.</p>
-<li><p><b>Allow Student Submissions...</b> The assignment is now opened
+<li><p><b>Allow Student Submissions</b> The assignment is now opened
to the students. If the teacher has set up example pieces of work, the students
are required to assess a specified number of these. (The number of
assessments is given when the assignment is created.) Once a student has
- made the required number of assessments they can then submit their own
+ made the required number of assessments they can then submit their own
work. In the case of an assignment with no examples, the students are free
to submit their own work without any delay.</p>
+
+<p>The advantage of leaving the assignment in the Submission phase is to allow
+ a build up of submissions. When they are subsequently allocated, in the next
+ two phases, there is better distribution of work. If the assignment is put
+ straight into the "Allow Submissions and Assessments" phase from
+ the "Set Up" phase (which is allowed) students who submit early
+ will tend to have early submissions to assess and those students who submit
+ late will tend to have late submissions to assess. Adding a "delay"
+ before peer assessment starts will eleviate that problem to a large extent.
<p>When a student submits a piece of work the teacher can, if desired, assess that
work. This assessment can be incorporated into the student's final grade. These
- assessments can take place either during the submission phase of the
- assignment or after the submission deadline.</p>
+ assessments can take place in the submission and assessment phases of the
+ assignment. Provided the teacher's assessments are made before the calculation
+ of the final grades they can used in that calculation.</p>
-<li><p><b>...and Assessments</b> If the assignment includes peer assessment,
- students who have submitted work are now shown other students' work to assess.
- The teacher may want to split the submission of work and its peer assessment
- into two distinct phases, awaiting for all students to submit their work before
- going into the peer assessment phase. This is not strictly necessary and the
- allocation of the (peer) assessments can be proceed while students are still
- submitting work. When there is such an overlap the teacher should consider
- setting the Over Allocation Level to ONE (possibly TWO) to allow the allocations
+<li><p><b>Allow Student Submissions and Assessments</b> If the assignment includes
+ peer assessment, students who have submitted work are now shown other students'
+ work to assess. Students who have not yet submitted work are allowed to submit
+ their work (but they are <b>not</b> show other students' work to access).
+ In this phase, submissions, re-submissions and assessments of submissions
+ and re-submissions are allowed to take place together. </p>
+
+ <p>The teacher may want to split the submission of work and its peer assessment
+ into two distinct phases, waiting for all students to submit their work before
+ going into the peer assessment phase. In that case this phase is not used at all,
+ the assignment goes from "Allow Submissions" straight to "Allow
+ Assessments". This allows the teacher to place a deadline on submissions,
+ the assignment is moved into the "Allow Assessments" phase at that
+ deadline.</p>
+
+<p>If the teacher, on the other hand, does not want such as clear cut division in
+ the assignment, then the assignment uses this phase. When allowing submissions
+ and assessments to occur together, the teacher should consider setting the
+ Over Allocation Level to ONE (or possibly TWO) to allow the allocations
to go smoothly (see the Admin page for more details). Note that doing this will
result in some submissions being (peer) assessed more times and some less
times than the majority of the submissions.</p>
- <p>When a student have made an assessment their peer can see that assessment. The
+ <p>When a student has made an assessment their peer can see that assessment. The
student who submitted the work can comment on the assessment if that option
was chosen for the assignment. The teacher can, if desired, grade these peer
assessments and these scores can be taken forward towards the students' final
- grades (but that is not really necessary in many cases, see the next phase).</p>
+ grades (but that is not really necessary in many cases, see the Calculation of
+ Final Grades phase).</p>
+
+<li><p><b>Allow Student Assessments</b> In this phase peer assessments continue but
+ students are not allowed to make any submissions, that includes re-submissions.
+ Students who have not made a submission are told that submissions are no longer
+ allowed and they are <b>not</b> shown any (peer) submissions to assess.</p>
+
+ <p>The teacher can continue, if desired, to grade the peer assessments and
+ these scores can be taken forward towards the students' final grades (but
+ that is not really necessary in many cases, see the next phase).</p>
<li><p><b>Calculation of Final Grades</b> After the deadline has passed, the teacher
- moves the assignment to the next phase where further submissions and assessments
+ moves the assignment to the next phase where further assessments
by students are not allowed. The teacher can, if wished, complete the grading of
assessments made on the examples and the grading of the student submissions.
They can also grade the peer assessments made by the students. This is <b>not</b>
The teacher can use this page to assess and re-assess submissions, grade and
re-grade assessments, delete submissions and assessments, and generally watch
the progress of the assignment.</p>
+