This afternoon focussed on SafeAssign, the Grade Center and Scholar (not sure what this has to do with assessing, but I suppose it's an opportunity to push the tool).
A useful debate in the presence of Blackboard about the usability, value and robustness of SafeAssign. The urgent checking option isn’t really an option at all because all instructors will want checking to be completed as soon as possible rather than queued in the ‘slower’ option. SafeAssign does not yet accept Office2007 formats and it is not known when this will be resolved. Pepijn referred to the reports as giving an actual judgement of plagiarism. We explored copying and submitting web sources; the reports rarely identified the correct sources or simply gave partial matches, if they identified any matches at all. Jennifer expressed concerns about this and is going to report this issue to their Product Development Team.
A fantastic time exploring and getting to grips the Grade Center, although Pepijn and Jennifer must have experienced question fatigue from the amount of questions I was throwing at them. Again it was good to be able to hear reasons why things work the way they do from a Blackboard perspective, and being able to suggest enhancements.
And finally we were given a quick over of Scholar. I didn’t really take much away from this, not least after 7 hours of sitting in a warm pc room.
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