Ideas
Sometimes when providing feedback to students I need to provide the same comments over and over again. Allowing for a customizable comment box so that all I have to do is click on a canned comment would be helpful in speeding up grading and providing students with more specific feedback.
Thank you, Sam. I am sure you all look at a lot of resources for developing these ideas. On the rubric upgrade I recommend taking a look at one of your conference presenter's book Common Ground Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom by Henshaw, Florencia G. and Hawkins, Maris D, chapter 2.
Thanks for the details and links, Kevin! I added your idea for "Add stamps/emojis for quick graded items" as a separate idea since that would relate to it's own implementation. Please give it a vote to help it gain some attention.
Your comment about the student view after a rubric grade is provided is one of the many reasons for the makeover. We'll plan on iterating on the new rubrics after we start to collect some feedback and we're really excited to launch what should be a massive improvement!
Yeah, I think that would help although it would be nice to include stamps for quick graded items. Here is an idea for that (https://www.teachtci.com/blog/new-provide-feedback-with-stamps/). With your idea below, It would be good to pre-populate some rubrics with ACTFL-aligned comments. For example, have one that is an interpersonal mode (listening speaking rubric and teachers can choose which proficiency descriptors to include. (Intermediate Low, High Novice, Mid Novice Etc.) Here are example texts www.languagetesting.com/pub/media/wysiwyg/AAPPL-Scores-Interpersonal.pdf . I was so glad to hear that rubrics are getting a make over. A challenge I have had with rubrics is student accessibility to the descriptors. Depending on the device the student was using, finding the meaning of their score was a bit difficult. I really don't know how many students saw the comments and descriptors of their score. I know this is another issue, but hopefully it will be more user friendly on the student side and teachers can see somehow if the students read their comments and score descriptor. Thank you for listening and your work to continue to improve an amazing platform!
Hi Kevin, your comment got me thinking. We're in the process of revamping rubrics on Extempore and this made me curious if Emoji's could work similarly to your comment by using the new rubrics and it looks like they might!
The only difference is that a point value would need to be associated. Would you say this will accomplish your request or would you still like to see us add "quick Emoji as feedback" where there isn't a point value associated?
It could be as simple as adding an emoji box with canned responses as thumbs up, smile, high five, etc. and stamps like great job, fantastic, improving, or more elaborate statements to improve to the next proficiency level like Avant Stamp and the AAPPL tests include in their reports. Please add this feature! It will be a great enhancement to the wonderful work done to the gradebook.