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Assessment

Great New Change to the OAKS Dropbox/Assignment tool!

Mendi Benigni

Students can now post a link or text directly into the Assignment/Dropbox submission area!

In the past, if your assignment required students to submit a link to something they created, they would have to put the link in a Word document and upload it.  Now there is a setting to allow them to add the link right on the Assignment Submission page, skipping the extra step of the Word doc!

screenshot highlighting the Submission OptionsNote: this only works on newly created Assignments

  1. In your OAKS class, go to Grades > Assignments/Dropbox
  2. Create a new assignment by clicking on New Folder
  3. On the Properties tab, scroll to the bottom and click on Show Submission Options
  4. Under Submission Requirements, click on Text submission, no file required
  5. Finish setting up your assignment then click Save and Close

 

 

Instead of a File Upload button, the students will see a text box they can type into and submit:

Screenshot of the student view showing the text box

Can I have my cake and eat it too?

The question I get most often is, can I have both a File Upload button and a Text submission in one assignment? Unfortunately, you cannot.  You need to choose one submission format or the other.  If you want to know more about this option, feel free to contact your Instructional Technologist!

Dear TLT
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Can I grade one OAKS Dropbox Assignment using two rubrics?

Mendi Benigni

DEAR TLTDear TLT,

I have an assignment that has two components but produces one grade.  I’d like to use a different OAKS rubric to evaluate each component.  Is it possible to do this within one OAKS Dropbox so that there is only one grade in the grade book?  I really want to keep them as one assignment.

Sincerely,

Karen HB
Health and Human Performance

 

Dear Karen,

The answer is yes and no.  The OAKS Dropbox allows the instructor to attach multiple OAKS rubrics to one assignment and use both of them to interactively grade the work.  However, it will only automatically load the calculated score from the first rubric.  As you can see from the screenshot below, only Rubric 1’s score has been entered into the Score area for the assignment.

Two graded rubrics with the score from the first one transferred
Two rubrics added and graded. Notice only the first rubric score transferred automatically to the assignment score.

 

 

You will just need to manually enter the appropriate grade into the Score area, based on the outcome of the two rubrics.

The other option to consider would be to create only one rubric in OAKS that has two Criteria Groups.  Group 1 is for the first component of the assignment and Group 2 is for the second part.  The benefit of using the groups is the you can use different scoring levels per section.  Note: this may not produce the same outcome as the two rubrics so be sure to test this before applying it to a live assignment.

Multipgroup rubric

Sincerely,

TLT