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Assessment and Feedback Collection

This Assessment and Feedback collection consists of six short guides which will help you explore different methods of assessment, grading, and feedback, and how they can be clearly planned and communicated to students. Assessment methods should be carefully considered in terms of equity, transparency, rigour, and integrity, and may challenge conventional approaches to quizzes and exams. With the rise of generative AI, this collection also emphasizes designing “AI-resilient” assessments, setting clear boundaries for ethical tool use, and leveraging AI to enhance student creativity and metacognition. We hope this guide will help you navigate these topics with confidence and clarity.

What you'll explore

Measuring achievement of learning outcomes

Communicating grading policies clearly

Providing frequent and varied assessment opportunities

Writing clear assessment instructions

Setting expectations and providing meaningful feedback

Promoting academic integrity through assessment design

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Assessment and Feedback Guides

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Guide to Measuring Achievement

Review your assessments and how they align with course learning outcomes—what you want students to know or be able to do by the end of the semester. Explain how each activity or assignment is specifically related to the learning objectives for the task and the desired course-level outcomes.

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Guide to Developing a Grading Policy

Review the grading policy for clarity and transparency from the perspective of students. Set up an online gradebook in Canvas and explain to students how to view grades and feedback online.

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Guide to Frequency and Variety of Demonstrating Understanding

Review strategies for enhancing the variety and frequency of assessments in order to give you and your students targeted and reliable insight into how they are learning.

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Guide to Writing Clear Instructions

Clear and actionable instructions for completing assessments support student confidence, engagement, performance, and success. Writing from a student’s perspective helps learners complete tasks more confidently and independently, reduces the number of questions and emails, and potential grade disputes.

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Guide to Expectations & Feedback

Use text, audio, or video to introduce an assignment and remind students how the assignment is connected to learning outcomes. Make it clear how the assignment will be graded and how you will give feedback. Clarify the connections between evaluation and outcomes in the assignment prompt, rubric, and so on. Provide examples if possible.

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Guide to Academic Integrity

Instructors can improve students’ commitment to academic integrity by clearly spelling out honesty expectations, teaching citation skills, emphasizing the educational benefits of a course, and using appropriate software tools. It is also important to address known and even suspected academic dishonesty.

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