2022 has been a very busy year for the Digital Assessment Team. Here is a taste of what we’ve been up to. We have:
- Set up this blog!
- Lost four great staff members (Aurelie Soulier, Carol Fowler, Anisa Patel, and Eliot Hoving) 😞
- Gained one fantastic new staff member (Nadia Hussain) 😊
- Run 79 training sessions and workshops (see image for breakdown)
- Worked with all 11 faculties across the institution and written a landscape reports for each of them, and a landscape summary report
- Produced 12 case study videos (available on this blog and the Arena site)
- Maintained the AssessmentUCL Resource centre, which now has 16 pages and have achieved 49,731 page views. There are also 30 video guides which have had 33,468 views (views since September 2021).
- Worked successfully with Arena, the Central Assessment Team, all other areas in Digital Education, Registry, the Academic Communication Centre, academics and many other parts of the institution
- Improved our knowledge in many assessment and feedback areas including academic integrity, AI, accessibility, ableism, ipsative assessment, the misconduct process, … You can see many of the resources we have read on Wakelet
- Presented and attended several conferences and written up reports on them – Digifest (March), RIDE (June), UCL Education Conference (April), Assessment in Higher Education, (June), and Wisecon (September)
- Facilitated a Talk Teaching, Talk Tech session on Moving Assessment Online
- Supported the creation and marking of hundreds of flows on AssessmentUCL
- Co-ordinated piloting of the lockdown browser and tested both Wiseflow functionality and Moodle/Turnitin plugins
The Digital Assessment Team would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and all the best for 2023!
Note that the featured image for this post was created by Dall-e 2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.