Assessment & Grading Hub
Assessment is how educators understand what students are learning, ideally to guide further instruction and provide students with growth-oriented feedback.
The most effective assessment is:
- ongoing—measures progress along the way
- transparent—students clearly understand the value of the assignment, the expected tasks to complete it, and how it will be evaluated.
- equitable—designed so that everyone can be successful.
- authentic—relevant to students’ lived experiences and future interests.
This Assessment Hub curates TEP and UO Online resources that will help you design and enact, through grading and feedback, your assessments.
Use the Quick Links to the right to jump directly to a section, or scroll down to explore each area in more detail.
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Assessment Design:
- Assessment Design Strategy
- Authentic Assessment
- Planning Assessment
- Transparent Assignment Design (TILT)
- Designing Rubrics
- Designing Assessments for Academic Integrity
- Course Builder
- AI & Assessment
Grading & Feedback:
Read a description of each resource:
| RESource | Description | when to use this resource |
|---|---|---|
Assessment Design | ||
| Assessment Design Strategy | Provides a roadmap for meaningful assessment, beginning with learning goals and graduating to feedback and improvement. | I'm looking for a step-by-step process with examples from real assignments. |
| Authentic Assessment | Defines authentic assessment, offers strategies for design, and provides examples and grading tips. | I want to design real-world assessments to improve student motivation and efficancy in and beyond the course. |
| Planning Assessment | A step-by-step guide to planning assessments in three parts: designing, building, and giving effective feedback. | I'm looking for a comprehensive guide to assessment that links to other helpful TEP materials. |
| Transparent Assignment Design (TILT) | Learn about the benefits of TILT for students and professors while making your purpose, task, and criteria for evaluation transparent to students. | I want a "gold standard" tool that is easy to implement, doesn't require a complete course redesign, and reduces my time spend re-explaining to students. |
| Designing Rubrics | A comprehensive guide to rubrics with various examples to promote clarity, consistency, fairness, and structured metacognition to assignments. | I want to know the why and how of rubrics with in a thick guide that allows me to make informed choices about what rubrics to use. |
| Designing Assessments for Academic Integrity | This page offers four main strategies for designing assessments with greater academic integrity, as well as focused, actionable tips for creating and placing settings on exams to support academic integrity. | I am looking for the digest version with quick ideas in bullet-point format I can use to promote academic integrity in my classroom. |
| Course Builder | This guide highlights important steps to take to get your new course off the ground, beginning with learning outcomes: what you want students to know and be able to do by the end of the course. | I need to see how assessments fits in with the larger picture of course design. |
| AI & Assessment | This page offers examples of how instructors are experimenting with a variety of ways to integrate or mitigate use of GenAI tools in their courses, including in assessments. | I need solid examples of ways instructors at UO are approaching AI use or mitigation. |
Grading & Feedback | ||
| UO Registrar Grading System | This page explains how letter grades and alternative marks translate into quality points for GPA calculation, outlines available grading modes, and clarifies policies related to grading options and exceptions. | I need clarity on grading models and how they factor into Grade Point Averages. |
| Grading Schemes in Canvas | The most common use of a grade scheme is to apply a letter grade to the final grade score in the gradebook. This guide shows you how. | I need to make adjustments to the default, UO-compliant grading scheme. |
| Canvas Quizzes | This guide will walk you through the various facets of Canvas Quizzes including creating a Canvas quiz; adding questions to quizzes and groups; creating quiz banks; and moderating quizzes for AEC (Accessible Education Center) accommodations. It will also cover grading quizzes using SpeedGrader and regrading quiz questions. | I need a practical how-to for using Canvas quizzes. |
| 20 Tips for Efficient Grading | Streamline your grading with these useful tips. Comes with a two-sided, printable handout. | I need digestible, time-saving tips, and I need them now! |
| Giving Feedback | This page defines feedback with research-informed strategies for giving effective feedback, including self-evaluation and peer feedback. | I need the bullet-point guide to providing students feedback that is clear, timely, and aligned with my learning objectives. |