Note to staff: 

1. Copy this text and paste it into the Assignment Brief section of your assessment point in Moodle and then edit as required.

2. Please ensure you remove all italicised text.

1. Tutor with responsibility for this assessment 

[ADD NAME] ( [ADD EMAIL ADDRESS] ) is your first point of contact for this element of assessment. 

2. The requirements for the assessment 

This section provides all the information the student needs to know in order to complete the assessment: what they have to produce and the required structure/format.  Students will expect the requirements for assessment to be consistent with the assessment criteria.

Some assessments will necessitate further special instructions, so add this here (for example, working in groups, provision of special resources to be used, the schedule for presentations or in-class tests, or the form of advice and support on offer as students prepare their assessment).  This is also the section to include FAQs about, for example, assessment formatting, word count or equivalent, referencing style. It is a good idea to upload complex additional instructions to the assessment point in Moodle as an ‘Additional file’.

For exams, this is the section to expand on the basic description already provided.  For example, for a seen exam, details could be provided about the release of the seen element.  For an open book exam, details could be provided about the materials it is possible to take into the exam, and how students might prepare and assemble those materials. For an unseen, closed book exam, further information about the structure of the exam questions and the weightings could be provided. 

3. Arrangements for submission 

Your individualised submission deadline will be available through your assessment submission point.  Although the Assessment Brief on the Module Guide includes details of the standard submission deadline, in all cases these become individualised for you, and presented to you through the assessment point itself.  This applies to all forms of assessment, with the exception of exams, where the date and time will be available in MyGlos approximately four weeks in advance, and certain forms of assessment such as presentations and performances, for which these details will be clarified by your tutor. 

State, either:  

Your assessment will be submitted online via Moodle. Please name the files you are submitting using the convention:

MODULE CODE_ASSESSMENT NUMBER (if more than one)_STUDENT NUMBER (plus _FILE NUMBER if more than one file is being submitted)

Note for staff: This naming convention is recommenced, particularly where anonymous assessment will be used, because it can help to facilitate offline marking and the investigation of suspected breaches. 

Please ensure you do not use special characters (e.g. brackets, commas, speech marks, question marks, etc.) in the file name.

The Maximum file size for uploading is 100MB.  

Note for tutors: you can submit a request to increase this limit up to a maximum of 1GB for a specific assessment by emailing ithelpdesk@glos.ac.uk, making it clear you have the approval of your ACL.

or: 

Your assessment will be [choose from SUBMITTED, SAT, PRESENTED or TAKEN] offline and the arrangements for this are as follows: 

Add one of the following: 

Submitted in person on campus – for offline submissions of coursework

Sat in accordance with the exam timetable – for exams

Presented as instructed in the requirements for assessment – for presentations 

Taken as instructed in the requirements for assessment – for in class tests 

Include below if anonymous marking applies (see the Anonymous Assessment Support Page on the Teaching Ready site to check which assessments are in and out of scope)

This assessment will be marked anonymously. This means Moodle will hide student identities from the marker during the marking process. To protect this anonymity, please do not incorporate your personal details, including your name, initials and email anywhere within the actual assignment or its file name.

Please also be aware that if you take an extension, it may not be possible for your work to be marked anonymously. This is because the technology reveals all student identities to the marker on the standard feedback return date, but your assignment might be marked after this.  

If you have any questions about anonymous assessment, please contact your Module Tutor. 

4. How your assessment will be marked 

This assessment addresses Learning Outcomes: 

[INSERT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED]

Add here, or upload as an ‘Additional file’, your assessment criteria and marking grid (rubric).

The main considerations that students should be clear on are: 

• How the assessment criteria relate to the assessment requirements (i.e., what they have been asked to produce) 

• How the criteria relate to the relevant module learning outcomes 

• How the criteria relate to any course grade descriptors

• How group work will be marked 

• Any weightings applied 

• The pass mark

• What happens should a student fail the assessment (retake opportunity)

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