Title: Activity 3.2: Planning for Assessment
Course: Stage 3: Online and Blended Teaching > Section: 2. Focus on Assessment

In this activity we consider what we would like our assessment practices to be.

Purpose: to create an assessment plan for your course.

Timing: 35 (5+30) mins (sync & async)

Tools: Forum; Text doc

Resources:

  - Assessment Plan Template (doc);
  - Your own Course Characteristics & Storyboard documents
  - Princíples of Assessment . (doc)

Task: Develop an Assessment Plan for your blended / online course

Questions:

  1. WHAT must be assessed?
  2. What is the PURPOSE of this assessment?
  3. I am used to assessing in these ways (e.g. through an exam, assignment, and other forms of assessment) because ...
  4. I would LIKE to consider assessing in these other ways because ..
  5. The activities done by my students during the course will contribute to formative and then summative assessment in these ways: ...
  6. Formative feedback will be offered by tutors and peers in these ways: ...
  7. Peer-assessment will be built into the course as follows: ...

Response: Working individually or with your team, and referring to your Course Characteristics and Storyboard:

- Download the template and save it to your device, renaming the file.
- Then respond to the questions on the template in the space provided.
- Upload the file to your Private Files area.
- Attach your completed Assessment Plan to a forum post, providing some context in the body of your post.
- Then take a look at other assessment plans and comment constructively by replying to your colleagues’ contributions.