Collaborative grading

[Flo]

Hey guys!!

As I read that this bug-reporting tool can be used to give some inspiration for new features, I would like to do so:

@ our UAS we projected Mahara and as one of our first needs to the system, we found out about a missing possibility to rate (or grade) a project or single parts out of a project.

So our wish for some further funcionality is the possibility to enable some kind of collaborative grading, where all other students out of a group of students can evaluate and rate the work of others and additionally maybe the possibility of a master-grade of a lecturer who is responsible for a group of students. Afterwards the possibility of a small grading-interpretation-screen would be fine.

I know the idea is not very well elaborated right now, but possibly it gives the right kick-starter to some developer who recognizes the good idea and sees the meaningfulness behind it.... (Maybe it is just the general feedback feature which has to be pimped a bit?)

Thanks for reading & best regards,
Florian Sauer
(UAS Technikum Vienna, Austria)

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for the suggestion. You can get somewhat more flexibility in your grading/assessment if you use the Moodle Mahara assignment plugin, which lets students submit a Mahara page as their submission for an assignment in Moodle. However, I don't think the Moodle assignment lets students do collaborative grading or assessment, so that wouldn't cover all of your bases. But I thought it might be worth mentioning.

https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission

Cheers,
Aaron

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

In addition to what Aaron wrote: More recent versions of Moodle (at least 2.5) have the possibility to use the standard assignment module and have a group submission. That way only one member of the group needs to upload the assignment and it can be graded for all.

A quick Google search revealed https://cis.technikum-wien.at/moodle/ and thus you could set up a Mahoodle instance so that your Mahara pages can get graded in Moodle. Currently, this only works with portfolio pages of individual users but not group pages.

[Flo (mr-acid)]

Hey guys,

many thx for your replies!

But what I really meant, is a kind of peer review, so that a bunch of people can "grade" or "rate" a single students or a groups portfolio.

best regards from Vienna,
Flo.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

As far as "rating" goes, as long as comments are allowed on a page, users with access to the page can leave feedback and also leave a rating if they are turned on (see http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.8/administration/extensions.html#artefact-type-comments ).

Grading would be much trickier as we don't have a gradebook.

[Dirk Meyer (dirkca68)]

One caution I would have when thinking about introducing formal grading features in mahara, is to not be limited to alphanumeric numbers. Alignment with outcomes or rubrics for example are hugely important. Introducing limited grading capabilities I think has some dangers.