Diane Bottomley began the session by demonstrating how she uses rGrade to manage assessment in her online courses. She showed the group how she accesses assignments students have submitted to the Blackboard digital dropbox within rGrade. Discussion ensued about the advantages and disadvantages of the Web Gradebook, rGrade, and the Blackboard gradebook.
Next, Diane discussed ways we could use rGrade data to evaluate our program in the future. rGrade has great potential for data manipulation and analysis.
Finally, the group had an extensive discussion about students' submission of the same project/assignment in several different courses. It was decided that the Elementary Education faculty should draft a statement to put in our syllabi stating that all work submitted for the course must be original and not previously submitted in another course. Additionally, faculty should configure their assignments with specific criteria to limit students from being able to use them in multiple courses.
