There are numerous ways to provide feedback to students using Inspera. The following table provides a snapshot of the options available in Inspera for different scenarios and ways teaching staff may want to deliver feedback.
- Feedback can be released after student submission or after the exam is closed
- This must be set up when writing your questions
- Feedback is only available when the marks are confirmed
- Only when candidate report is enabled
- Feedback can be released after the test period is closed, grades are confirmed and the “Visible from” (post date) has passed
- TFS has rubrics, annotation tools, QuickMarks (pre-defined reusable comments) and feedback boxes for personalised comments
For detailed information please refer to the Feedback and Review SharePoint site (Internal only).
Predefined feedback
Predefined feedback are feedback for questions (overall comment) and questions with alternatives which can be pre-written when writing your questions . This feedback type can be set up for manually and automatically marked question types.
- Feedback per question is available for all question types.
- Feedback per alternative is available in question types Multiple choice, Multiple response, Inline choice and True/False
Visit Inspera guide for how to create predefined feedback for your questions.
Bands and Criteria
Bands and criteria use a slider to allocate specific mark range (i.e., Band) for each criterion. Bands and criteria need to be created when setting up the question in Inspera, it cannot be added after students have begun their attempt.
Visit Inspera guide on how to create bands and criteria in your questions.
Criteria marking
Critera marking enables graders to utilize predefined criteria set within the question for grading. Each criterion is associated with a specific mark. Students are awarded marks corresponding to the selected criteria.
Visit Inspera guide on how to create criteria in your question for marking.
Rubrics
Rubrics is an effective way to allocate a specific mark or level of achievement against criteria and standards in a matrix format. Rubrics consist of rows (Criteria), columns (Level of performance) and marks.
Please rubric types and how to create a rubric in Inspera, please visit our Rubric guide.
Annotation and page notes
Annotation allow you to provide an in-text comment on a specific part of the student’s response. While page notes can be used to provide an overall comment or feedback for a specific question.
Visit Inspera guide on how to use page notes and annotations in marking.
Reusable criteria
Reusable criteria allows you to build a collection of comments (with or without marks) for a question when grading students’ responses. These criteria/comments can be shared with co-graders of the test.
Visit Inspera guide on how to use criteria in your marking.
Explanation
Explanation is used for providing general feedback to a student.
The explanation will not be shared until graders click on the Send to candidate button. It is customised per student and once shared, explanations cannot be withdrawn, edited or deleted.
For more information, please visit Inspera guide on explanation.
Assessment Feedback
Assessment Feedback allows staff to release a common feedback statement to all candidates once grades have been finalized. It’s the same feedback for all candidates in the test.
To enable Assessment Feedback, Candidate Report must be enabled. The General feedback for assessment setting will be available for staff to turn on when Candidate Report is enabled.
Visit Inspera guide on how to use Assessment feedback in your test.
Turnitin Feedback Studio
Graders can take advantage of Turnitin feedback features such as QuickMark comments, annotations, voice comments, and interactive rubrics within an Inspera assessment.
How to release feedback to students
Marks and feedback can be released to students via Candidate report or Post-submission review features.
- Candidate report: enables teaching staff to provide richer feedback to students after a test is graded and confirmed. Students can download and view their marks and feedback without seeing the exam/ test question(s). Please visit Inspera guide on how to enable and configure Candidate Report.
- Post-submission review: allow students to view their submission and prewritten feedback automatically (without manual confirmation by the marker) on the Inspera dashboard after their submissions or after the test is finished. Please visit Inspera guide on how to enable and configure the Post-submission review.
How do I set up pre-written feedback?
Feedback for questions (overall comment) and questions with alternatives can be pre-written when writing your questions (PREDEFINED FEEDBACK). PREDEFINED FEEDBACK can be set up for manually and automatically marked question types. Remember to enable POST-SUBMISSION REVIEW or CANDIDATE REPORT in the test settings, to ensure students can see the feedback after test is closed and marking is completed. You can define feedback for each alternative for Question Types that involve multiple answer choices, such as Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Inline Choice (i.e. students select the correct option from a drop-down menu), and True/False questions. Predefined feedback cannot be changed after a test is made available for students (i.e. activated).
For more information, please refer to the Inspera article: Predefined feedback
How do I control the release of marks and feedback to students?
Within Inspera marks can be released manually or automatically. Students will receive their feedback once the exam time has closed. Using automatic release is ideal for formative or practice quiz scenarios where students can receive immediate feedback. To release marks and feedback in Inspera enable CANDIDATE REPORT (a document where students can download and view their marks and feedback without seeing the exam question(s)). This is released when all markers have confirmed marking.
For more information, please click the SharePoint link (Internal Only)- Release of Marks and Feedback
How do I reuse comments across student responses on a specific question?
Reusable criteria/comments allows user to build a collection of comments (with or without marks) for a question when grading students’ responses. User can also choose to share the criteria/comments that have been set up with co-graders of the test. The collection of reusable comments are only available per test and per question. It is currently not possible to reuse the same comments on different questions.
For more information, please refer to this article: Reusable Comments/Criteria
How do I provide feedback to students for extended response questions?
Question types available for extended response include Essay and Upload Assignment.
There are two ways to provide feedback for extended response questions:
1. ANNOTATIONS allow to provide an in-text comment on a specific part of the student’s response.
2. PAGE NOTES can be used to provide an overall comment or feedback for a specific question.
For more information, please refer to the Inspera article: Feedback and Comments
What does my feedback look like to students?
Inspera offers two different ways to provide feedback to students: as a paper review (POST-SUBMISSION REVIEW) or as a student marks and feedback report (CANDIDATE REPORT). In both instances, the associated settings may be enabled after a test has been closed and graded.
For more information please refer to SharePoint Site (Internal Only): Feedback settings