New help files for teacher admin page.

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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Assessment of Teacher's Examples</B></P>
<P>After the teacher has submitted the examples it is useful from the
teacher's point of view to assess these examples, if only partially.
These assessments are private to the teacher, they are NOT shown
to the students at any stage during the assignment. They are,
however, useful when the teacher looks at the student assessments
of the examples. When grading a student assessment, the teacher
sees their own assessment at the top of the page and the
student's assessment of the same piece of work at the bottom of
the page. The &quot;extra&quot; assessment acts as a reference
source and a reminder of the salient points held in the example.
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Grading of Student Submissions</B></P>
<P>In general the teacher will want to assess the work submitted by the
students. The assessments are shown to the students and should provide
feedback on their work.</P>
<P>The grades from these assessments can be used
in two ways in the final grade calculation. Firstly, the grade itself can be
used as a (weighted) component in the final grade. Secondly, these
grades can optionally be added into the pool of peer assessments and
used as a &quot;calming factor&quot; if it felt that the student
assessments are too high or too low.
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Submission of Teacher's Examples</B></P>
<P>If the students are required to assess some example pieces of work
before submitting their own work, the teacher uses this link to submit
that work. The teacher can submit any number of pieces of work. If the
number of pieces of work is greater than the number of example
assessments each student must make, then the work is allocated in a
random but balanced fashion. The system tries to assure that each of
the examples is allocated to the students the same number of times.
The allocation is random in that if, say, ten examples are submitted then
it is highly unlikely that the first student is allocated submissions
1, 2 and 3 to assess.</P>
<P>If the teacher submits a fewer number of examples than given
in the corresponding parameter of the assignment, the students
are given just those examples to assess.</P>
<P>After the teacher has submitted the examples it is useful for the
teacher to assess these examples, if only partially. These assessments
are private to the teacher, they are NOT show to the students at any
stage during the assignment. They are, however, shown to the teacher
when the teacher looks at the student assessments of the examples.
When grading the student assessment the teacher sees their own
assessment at the top of the screen and the student's assessment
of the same piece of work at the bottom. The &quot;extra&quot;
assessment acts as a reference source and a reminder of the
salient points in the example.
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>UnGraded Assessments (Student Submissions)</B></P>
<P><B>Assessment of Student Submissions</B> These are the peer assessments
made by students on eachother's work. In general, these assessments do NOT
have to be graded by the teacher. Provided each of the student submissions is
assessed about five times, the system can make a reasonable judgement on
the inidivual assessment performance of the students. When the number of
peer assessments is low then the teacher may want to grade these
assessments. Any grades given to the assessments can be taken into account
when calculating the final grades for the students.
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>UnGraded Assessments (Teacher Submissions)</B></P>
<P><B>Assessments of Teacher Submissions</B> These are assessments of
the example pieces of work which the assignment may require the students
to make before they can submit their own work. These assessments should,
in general, be graded by the teacher. The assessments will show whether the
student understand the assignment and will provide possibly useful feedback
to the teacher on whether any remedial action or fine tuning of the
assignment is necessary. Further, if an assessment is graded the teacher's
comments are made available to the student. These may provide valuable
guidance to the student in the preparation of their own piece of work for
the assignment. </P>
<P>These assessments do not have to be graded. Leaving a student's
assessment of the examples ungraded when NOT stop that student from
submitting their own work. It is recommended, however, that all least a
sample of the assessments are graded for the reasons mentioned above.</P>