Feedback Tracker Report

Next week the Digital Learning Environments team will launch a new Feedback Tracker Report in Moodle. This report will show students the status of their assessments and feedback and is inspired by the manual feedback tracker created by the School of Pharmacy in 2023. 

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The initial release will only display the following Moodle activities: 

• Moodle Assignment 

• Turnitin Assignment 

• Moodle quiz 

• Moodle lesson (where graded) 

• Moodle forum (where graded) 

• Moodle Grade items 

Student View 

Students will access the Feedback Tracker Report via the Feedback tracker link on the Moodle dashboard or via their user profile menu – both access options are illustrated. 

Access via the Moodle dashboard 

Access via the user profile menu  

The Feedback Tracker Report gives students a personalised view of their assessments. If a student has adjusted submission times, the adjusted submission times will be shown to them. 

The report displays all courses that a student is enrolled upon, showing all assessments that are not set to be hidden from students.  

If an assessment has been categorised as summative or formative, either manually or by using the Marks Transfer feature, this information will also be displayed. 

 

For each assessment, the following information is shown: 

• Assessment Name: displayed as a link to the assessment. 

• Submission Date: The date the submission is due. If a student has an extension, their individual submission date will show.   

• Student Submission indicator: 

• • Submitted (green) = student submitted before the assessment due date. 

• • Submitted late (yellow) = student submitted after the assessment due date. 

• • Overdue (red) = student has not submitted, and the assessment due date has passed. 

• Feedback Due date: This date is based upon UCL’s academic policy on Assessment feedback requirement that feedback should be delivered within 20 UCL working days excluding all UCL holidays.  

• Feedback Status Indicator: The Feedback indicator will display:  

• • Released (green) = Feedback has been released within 20 working days from the assessment due date. 

• • Released late (yellow) = Feedback has been released but it took longer than 20 working days from the assessment due date.  

• • Overdue (red) = Feedback has not been released and more than 20 working days has passed from the assessment due date. 

•  Staff can add the following information to their course assessments via the configuration page: 

• • Feedback method – the kind of feedback being returned e.g. written, oral, video, in-class. This helps signpost the different kinds of feedback students are receiving.  

• • Contact – a staff contact point for students. 

• • Additional information – any note relevant to students, for example you could explain that cohort feedback was provided in a Moodle forum post and link to that post.  

Staff View 

Staff will be able to view a course level Feedback Tracker Report by going to the Reports tab for any Moodle course and clicking the Feedback tracker link as illustrated below. From this view, staff will be able to select to view as a course administrator or view as a specific student on that course. Staff will only see assessments for the course that they are accessing. 

 

 

Administrator feedback tracker configuration page 

Every course will have its own Feedback Tracker configuration page. From this page course administrators and tutors will have a full unfiltered view of the assessments on the course and will be able to select overrides on features such as visibility. Course administrators will also use this page to add any of the free text fields that are available into the report. 

From this page, Course Administrators can: 

• Hide assessments from the Feedback Tracker Report, these will still appear on the course but won’t appear in the student report. This allows staff to focus student attention on the most important assessments. 

• Indicate where an assessment has received cohort feedback. This will change the feedback status for the assessment to “Released”. 

Future Developments 

The Digital Learning Environment team will continue to work on the Feedback Tracker Report including: 

• Early life support and bug/issue resolution as required. 

• Developing a staff version of the reporting dashboard that will contain additional information. The team will be working on the specification within our next Agile termly increment. 

• Add additional functionality to the feedback tracker report e.g. the ability to bring other non-Moodle assessment information from SITS. 

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact the Digital Education team via MyServices.