Feedback and Evaluation

Feedback and Evaluation

At LiFT, we believe that robust two-way communication between you and your learners is key to their engagement and learning. The LiFT feedback cycle includes review of submitted assignments, opportunities for two-way discussion with your learners, potentially multiple opportunities to return their work for revision, and the ability to mark the assignment complete, evaluate it and add it to a Learner’s Skill Portfolios. Working the feedback cycle becomes much of the day-to-day work of using LiFT.

In LiFT, there are two ways to review student Evidence, either on your Evidence-All page, or on your Projects tab in the Class Module. Through either path, you can:

  • Review submitted Evidence
  • Send comments to your Learner that are either general or specific to one of the tagged Skills, providing guidance and encouragement
  • Return Evidence to the learner for revision if it is not yet complete or has room for improvement
  • Mark Evidence as complete
  • Evaluate the Evidence, giving it either a rubric rating or a numeric score
  • Add the Evidence to the Learner’s associated Skill Portfolios
  • Approve a Skill’s rating

Using the Projects tab in Your Classes Module


Finding Evidence

First, it is helpful to know that there are two different views available in the Projects tab, plus search filters to help find the Evidence you are looking for.

Your first view is Project – Evidences – Learner. This view is particularly helpful is you want to evaluate a particular Evidence assignment from all Learners in your Class.



The second view is Project – Learner – Evidences. This view works well if you’re looking at how each of your Learners is doing in a particular Project.



The data displayed for both views functions the same. For the purposes of these instructions, we will look at the Project – Evidences – Learner view together.


Evidence Status Info

The left data pane shows you the status of the Project’s Evidences. The icon headings enumerate the number of Evidences that are Assigned, In Progress, Completed, Overdue and have Unread Comments. Hovering over an icon will display its label.

The clickable summary counts show how your class is progressing on each Evidence assignment. Click on any summary count to display only evidence in that status. (Note that assignments 'Review Requested' and 'Revision Requested' are considered 'In Progress'.)

Filtering the Evidence list this way makes it easier to see who is at what stage in a Project, and to be able to update specific groups of students using Bulk Action. (Have you played with the Bulk Action button in the upper right corner?)


The Right Detail Pane - your command center


The right data pane is your Feedback & Evaluation command center. From this one screen, you can do pretty much everything: view the artifact, send comments to the student, review the tagged skills' skill levels, evaluate the evidence, change the evidence status, add evidence to portfolios, approve skills.



View Artifact

Click on Artifact under the Evidence name and the center pane will display a preview of the submitted Evidence/Artifact of Learning. Click on the four corners icon in the upper right corner of the Artifact Preview window to expand the preview window to screen width to make your review of Evidence easier.
 
From the Artifact Preview pane, you can also delete the Evidence (red & white button), update/replace the Evidence (green button) or by clicking on the blue View button, you either download the evidence or open it in another browser tab, depending on file type.


View & Enter Comments

Click on Comments and you can scroll through past communications with your Learner about the Evidence and add new comments, either about the Evidence in general or a specific skill.


View Skill Levels

If you click on a Skill, the left pane will display the Skill Levels for that Skill and their criteria. You can evaluate this Evidence against each tagged Skill by simply checking the appropriate box – hovering over the box will display the Skill’s label. If you have enabled Numeric Scoring for this Evidence, you can score it here.


Evidence Status

You can adjust the Status of individual Learner’s Evidence by opening a drop down menu and selecting from Not Started, In Progress, Review, Revision Requested, Complete and In Portfolio. If the Project is complete (is this still required?) and has been Evaluated, you can click on the Plus icon to send the Evidence to its associated Skill Portfolios. You can also Approve a Skill’s rating (what’s the best way to describe this use case?)


Evaluate Evidence

With one click you can evaluate the submitted Evidence against each tagged Skill. If you've enabled rubric rating (when creating the Project), a row of boxes - one for each of your Skill Levels - will appear for each Skill. Hover over the boxes to see the Skill Level labels. Place a check mark in the appropriate box if you're ready to evaluate the Evidence.

If you've enabled numeric scoring (when creating the Project), a numeric field will appear and you can enter your score there,

It is not necessary for Evidence to be completed before you can evaluate it. Providing feedback and evaluation during early stages can help learners better understand what is expected of them.


Send to Skill Portfolios

When the Evidence is finalized and you have updated its status to Completed, you can click on the plus sign icon to send it to that Skill's Portfolio. Once it has been sent to the Skill Portfolio, the icon changes to a green check mark.

Approve a Skill

If you wish to indicate that a standard has been met, you can click the Approve box and a badge will accompany that Skill's rating in the Skill Portfolio.



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