Epilogue: Grading and Beyond
Unit 4 | End of Semester | ePortfolio Digital Track
Goals: Instructors kick back and enjoy the break after final projects are graded!
It’s over! You made it! Hooray!
Below are some tips on grading the Final ePortfolio. These are just here to make this as quick and easy as possible so that you can get the hell out of here!
Preparing for The End:
❏ Use one rubric! If you can, use the single rubric for the whole portfolio. Your student’s projects are impressive, but we’re passed the time for feedback and line-edits: be quick and general and check those boxes!
❏ You know this already: Ideally by this point, you already know what your students have been making and how those remixes turned out at the showcase. Now it’s just confirming!
❏ Heads-up! Use student’s heads-up statements to guide your grading at the end. We recommend being generous where technology let them down.
❏ Recommended: However you collect Heads-up statements, consider also including a yes/no request to share students work (anonymously, if possible) with future semesters. Having students examples of projects will only make this easier for you in the future!
Goodbye, Leo and Maria:
Maria (Video Track): Maria is impressed with the overall projects. They email a few students to ask for permission to share their work with future students. Several of Maria’s students want to continue their profile projects in other classes, and one student mentions they're taking video production class soon.
Leo (Audio Track): Leo goes through the student final projects and is surprised at how a few students have made genuinely funny and dramatic content. Leo isn’t sure exactly how to grade these projects, though, but he remembers to look at the [[Digital Project Rubric]] and uses the students' pitches from Step 8 to determine how effectively they met their goals.
Back to Step 9.
Thanks for a wonderful semester!