Documentation:Learning Environment/OLFM Workshop Feedback/OLFM Workshop Comments

Comments, Suggestions and Concerns

OLFM Notification:

Comments:

• Good idea*This is important*Awesome*So Useful*Very Importatnt*This is vital* I would love this as I work from the feed. Yeah!! :) * Yes, very important* It is important to me. Yes, I like this* Good idea *Good Idea * Assignment notification would be important * Very important...I don't like navigating out of email and then logging into LMS* I like being able to access via link* Very handy. I currently find it difficult to set to all assignments/blogs/discussions/quizzes* Good*

Concerns:

• It is easy to see assignments in Blackboard Learn. Don't know why we need to be advised multiple times. This is duplicating work and overloading other email systems.
• Outlook? Having fewer email in boxes should be a goal.
• Can this please go to course messages and NOT to outlook?

Suggestions:

• Prefer the notifications be on a landing page, similar to what the last version of WebCT provided.
• Need to also include new discussion postings
• Must be able to turn it off
• Can this be set up so that students cannot submit form their personal email?
• Need to be able to set up which quizzes I get notified about.
• Course message notification is needed
• Should provide course name in the email (example in deck does not show this)
• Should be able to turn it off for each assignment
• Include dates for paced courses

Grading Centre:

Comments:

• Streamline process so assignments are marked quickly. We are paid a fixed $,taking longer to mark an assignment is NOT ACCEPTABLE
• Flexibility is good
• Anything that highlights showing assignments and messages is Good...comments within document never seems to work well...functionality cannot be undone.

Concerns:

• Would this replace emails received from OL Registration system?
• What type of files?
• There is difficulty when students use different software and types of documents

Suggestions

• need to be able to embed feedback right in the paper-highlights and different colour ink. Save time form having to download
• Need official mark
• One page for all feedback given would be handy
• Allow ability to send back assignments for further work and allow multiple submissions easily.
• Allow re-submissions and grade changes

Click to Grade from Homepage

Comments:

• Good*Much easier than the one used now

Concerns:

• n/a

Suggestions:

• I like to mark the same assignments for the multiple students, currently Blackboard Learn allows me to order the assignments, can this functionality still exist in new system.

Marking Online

Comments:

• Options are great

Concerns:

• n/a

Suggestions

• Currently system bumps you out after 20 minutes. If you are typing when the warning box comes up you lose everything
• When marking online, students don't always access all the feedback. It is not intuitive. Need in-document feedback too
• Stylus?
• Abiltiy to annotate the pdf on the screen directly
• Stylus idea :)

Marking Offline

Comments:

• Especially important in Math and Physics courses because then we can point things out "draw" on their work etc *Offline marking important * I download all essays and use MS Word and track changes *important *marking offline for large assignments of 30+ pages

Concerns:

• NO

Suggestions

• Would like to use feedback functions when marking offline.
• Would like to use the edit function in word to put comments in edit bubbles can we make this feature available for feedback
• Ensure we still have the attached document?
• For COMP courses we need zip, java, vb etc. Java and vb need to load into IDE and test run as part of marking
• have to be able to upload assignments that have been marked offline