Creating Assessments for Students to Submit Online
As an admin or teacher, you have the ability to create assessments for students to submit online through the LMS module. This feature allows for a more efficient and organized way of collecting and grading student work.
Step 1: Creating Assessment
In order to create assessments, you must first access the "Assessment & Grading Module" and click on "+ Add" in the "Assessment" tab.
In the assessment form, fill in the details and click on "Show More Options" and enable "Online Submission".
Now, the students can make submission in the LMS module. Here's a documentation on how students can make submission to these assessments.
Step 2: Reviewing Assessment & Plagiarism Checking
After students submit their work online, the admin or teacher can review the assessments and check for plagiarism.
Classe365's plagiarism checker is a software application designed to scan a document and compare it against a massive database of existing content to find matches.
Why Plagiarism Checking?
Why Plagiarism Checking?
Students rarely set out to be "dishonest" just for the sake of it. Usually, it's a mix of pressure, poor time management, or a misunderstanding of what actually constitutes plagiarism in a digital world.
Copy-Paste Culture: Taking snippets from websites, blogs, or digital textbooks without attribution.
AI Over-reliance: Using LLMs to generate entire essays or code blocks instead of using them as a brainstorming partner.
Contract Cheating: Paying third-party services or "tutors" to complete assessments in real-time.
Collusion: "Group-chatting" where students share answers in a private messaging system or WhatsApp thread.
Benifits of Plagiarism Checking
Benifits of Plagiarism Checking
Plagiarism checking isn't just about "catching the bad guys." In a modern educational world, these tools act more like standard for quality. Think of a plagiarism checker as a digital proofreader that looks for missing citations rather than just typos. Here are the primary benefits:
Ensuring Academic & Professional Integrity: The most obvious benefit is maintaining a level playing field.
Fairness: It ensures that students who spent hours researching and writing aren't outscored by someone who used "copy-paste."
Reputation: For a school or a company, consistent plagiarism checks protect the value of the degrees or reports they issue. If a brand is caught publishing stolen content, its credibility vanishes.
Improving Writing & Citation Skills: This is a powerful teaching tool because it
Highlights Accidental Plagiarism: Sometimes you forget to add a set of quotation marks or a bibliography entry. The checker flags this before you submit the final version.
Encourages Paraphrasing: If a report shows 40% similarity, it forces the writer to go back and actually process the information, putting it into their own unique voice rather than just swapping a few synonyms.
Protecting Originality and "Intellectual Property": Plagiarism don't just check the web; it often checks against a private database of other student submissions.
Prevents "Recycling": It stops the same paper from being sold or handed down from an older student to a younger one year after year.
Copyright Protection: For students this tool can be used to see if their original work has been stolen by someone else on the internet.
To check for plagiarism, open the "Assessment" section and click on "Run Plagiarism Check" button.
Let the system evaluate the assessments submitted by the students, once done, you can view the plagiarism results.
The system will also provide results for individual students flagged from "Low" to "High." Students with low results are considered to have completed their work honestly, while those with high results may have used online sources, AI-generated documents, or copied content from the internet.
Clicking on the (ℹ️) button will give you an overview of the result.
To view the assessments, simply click on the submissions count button.
Clicking the submission's count, will display a popup listing all the submissions by the students.
Step 3: Grading Submission
After students have submitted their assessments, you can access them through the LMS module and grade them accordingly. You can also provide feedback and comments for each student's submission. This information will be visible to the student when they view their graded assessment.
Teachers can grant scores to the submission from the "Gradebook" simply click on the "Manage Grade Book" button, and it'll take you directly to that page.
The "Paper-clip Icon" indicates that this is an online submission, and can set scores here.
Conclusion
Creating assessments for students to submit online through the LMS module is a convenient and efficient way to manage student work. By following these simple steps, you can easily create and assign assessments, collect submissions, and provide feedback to your students. This feature is a valuable tool for both admins and teachers in the education setting.
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