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Here’s how No More Marking works:

• NMM helps you assess open-ended work.
• Set a task on paper, scan the scripts as pdfs, and upload them.
• After uploading the scans, you add the email address of your judges.
• You set a question for your judges, such as ‘The better piece of writing?’

• Your email your judges links to judge the work.
• Your judges decide, for a series of pairs, which of each pair is better according to your question.
• After a number of judgements NMM creates a scale of best to worst according to your question.

Interested in finding out more about No More Marking and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Now that you know all about No More Marking, it’s time to try it for yourself

Proceed to Demo: https://www.nomoremarking.com/demo1

Here are just a few of the possibilities with Kahoot!:

• Tap into learners competitive natures, they can play against each other, in teams or against their own past scores
• Assess understanding. It works great for assessing where learners might be missing a concept or content.
• Zero in on the needs of individuals. You can get detailed reports of which learner missed which questions

• Pre-assessment to gauge the level of knowledge on a topic in the room
• Post-exercise to gauge the understanding of new concepts
• Peer to peer learning – get learners to create Kahoots for their class mates and explain their questions/answers

Interested in finding out more about Kahoot and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Now that you know all about Kahoot – here are some more advanced ways you can use it in your class or lecture room.

Introduce a new concept or topic

Rather than doing a quick assessment, many Kahooters throw away PowerPoint and play a game to introduce new information at the start of a topic – often spending a whole lesson Kahooting. A game would typically consist of around 5 questions, each one building up a narrative around a specific concept or topic with explanatory photography, video or diagram embedded. After each question, discuss the why? – you will likely spend 10 minutes debating each one!

Kahoot! calls this approach Blind Kahooting

Reinforce knowledge

We often hear our community say “My students begged for more!”. By turning on the ‘Randomise order of questions?’ and ‘Randomise order of answers in questions?’ options on the orange launch screen at the start of a game, you can reinforce learning by playing the same Kahoot multiple times! This ensures the focus is on the right/wrong answers rather than remembering the placement of the correct one(s).

If you’ve previously introduced a new topic with a Kahoot, why not play the same game again to reinforce knowledge?

Challenge learners to make their own Kahoots

Kahoot! is avidly promotes a pedagogy they call ‘Learners to Leaders’ pedagogy which encouraged students to make their own Kahoots to challenge the class or play against one another outside of school. They suggest that the teacher/tutor you gets things started by initiating deep research and critical thinking on the subjects that inspire them the most! This allows you to play their game, and watch them become leaders as they discuss topics most important to them.

Want to learn more about Blind Kahooting and Learners to Leaders? Check out this great Kahoot! Pedagogu guide: https://files.getkahoot.com/academy/Kahoot_Academy_Guide_1st_Ed_-_March_2016.pdf?utm_source=getting_started_pdf&utm_medium=pdf&utm_content=Resources&utm_campaign=Teachers_Getting_Started

Here are just a few of the possibilities with Digital Assess:

• Capture evidence of milestones using in-built digital features or learners’ own mobile devices.
• Learners, teachers and assessment bodies can annotate and input feedback directly into content in any digital media, demonstrating where learning goals have been met.

• Allows for Our revolutionary tool for automatic ranking and grading of work with remarkable accuracy and consistency.
• An assessment workflow for centres and accreditation bodies based on a secure digital portfolio that lets you mark, verify and moderate with ease.

Interested in finding out more about Digital Assess and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some explainer videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

How to get started: “Go to http://digitalassess.com/enquiry and fill in the enquiry form

Now that you know all about Digital Assess – here are some more case studies to help you figure out how it could be used in your organisation.

University of Limerick in Ireland was named University of the Year 2015 by the Sunday Times Good University Guide. Digital Assess was tasked with helping tutors improve trainee teachers’ ability to assess soft skills and thus improve their teaching skills, which ultimately led to improving feedback mechanisms and enhanced critical thinking skills. Here’s how we helped this forward-thinking University to reach its goals with our user-friendly technology, with some illuminating results. Find out more: http://digitalassess.com/university-of-limerick-deploys-pioneering-technology-to-develop-critical-skills-among-trainee-teachers/

The University of Edinburgh is one of the UK’s top universities. But student satisfaction, as reflected in the annual National Student Survey, was not as high as the university would have liked . In response, the University embarked on an award-winning programme to improve students’ experience which included working with us to introducing a more reliable, streamlined and student inclusive digital assessment and feedback process. Find out how Digital Assess helped to boost satisfaction scores while also improving engagement and attainment: http://digitalassess.com/university-of-edinburgh-closes-gap-between-national-achievement-and-student-satisfaction-ratings/