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Fast Feedback Tracking System goes out to the wider community

The fast feedback tracking system, that has been developed by Loughborough College with the help of Mentor – Martin Hawskey is still being tested by a few tutors, but the code and the outputs of the project have been released to the wider community via Martin’s Blog post - http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/05/hacking-stuff-together-with-google-spreadsheets-fast-tracking-student-feedback-system/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=jisccetis it is hoped that there will be other [...]

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The fast feedback tracking system is ready for testing

After months of hard work, especially by Martin Hawksey who has done all of the behind the scenes programming, the fast feedback tracking system is finally ready to be trialled with 2 tutors at the college. The end product looks (in my opinion) very professional and clean, the next stages are now to test this [...]

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2 steps forward, 1 step back

In early February Patrick announced he would be returning to New Zealand, giving about 4 weeks of handover time before he departed. The LSIS project was now moving rapidly as we tried to create a prototype that would be fit for the initial testing. Martin Hawskey (our mentor) came to the college to run the [...]

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Discussion with critical friend makes for great reflection

Late January saw the team catch up with Victor Dejean, the fast-tracking feedback project’s critical friend. This was a great opportunity for the team to bring Victor up to speed with the progress so far and to reflect on what we’d learnt along the way. I’ll try to summarise some of the progress below, but [...]

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What the students said, and a demonstration of embedding a Google Form Summary.

Further to last weeks post we thought it might be nice to share the students opinions, and a bit of a work around to show that you can not only share Google Form Summaries with the world, but also that you can embed them within an online space. First this post will explain how to [...]

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Students feed back on Feedback

With the post Christmas marking being handed out students were asked by progress tutors to complete a questionnaire on assessment feedback (built on a Google Form).  course reports have previously suggested to that students would like to see improvements to assessment feedback so alongside a blank version of our generic feedback sheet students were provided [...]

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First Scripting session goes well

As the part of the project we have arranged for 3 scripting sessions with Martin Hawksey to be delivered using Adobe Connect.  In preparation Martin and I had talked over the content we thought might be appropriate for the session and discussed the progress made so far by Dave Foord and myself.  As part of [...]

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Staff feed back about feedback

Whilst the Sport team has been using a similar Feedback sheet for some years it was interesting to hear staff discuss what the do and don’t like about in a meeting just before the Christmas break.  Even more intriguing was the way in which different staff use the form; some filling it in grades then [...]

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In the beginning, there was planning.

After the initial excitement of winning the project Fast-tracking feedback has taken a slightly slower start, partly delayed by a wedding, a holiday, and the time it takes for paperwork to flow through systems however were are now up and running and looking forward to the first big milestone in the project, designing a feedback [...]

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Mentor and a Critical Friend appointed.

The LSIS Leadership In Technology bid required our project to nominate a mentor, after discussion, we’ve secured the services of Martin Hawksey Google scripting extraordinaire whose examples of the wonders possible with Google scripts can be found on his blog.  As an added bonus LSIS have also provided us with a critical friend in the [...]

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