This blog highlights a TLA inspire story that discusses Will Jackson & Anne Hayes from the School of Justice Studies who have been using the feedback dashboard to support tutees.
The feedback dashboard is an online space where staff can access all the electronic feedback in Canvas for each student on a single page.
The main way Will and Anne are using this dashboard is prior to and during individual tutorials and PDPs, using it to help students to see the commonalities across the different assessments leading to plans and strategies to improve. For instance, prior to a meeting they might go in and have a brief glance at some of the different comments left on the assignments and also a quick overview of their marks in the past semester.
“I only spend a couple of minutes on the system before the session. . . this allows me to have a more focused meeting” Anne
It helps with ‘Connecting the dots’, helping the student to see the connections between the assignments
“As staff submitting to journals, our experience of feedback is usually so useful because eventually, you are going to get something out of responding to it and getting your work published. In contrast, for students’ feedback tends to feel final and there’s no chance to resubmit, so it’s an important part of the process to work alongside the student to connect those dots and help the student utilise the feedback from a previous submission to improve the next one. Students don’t always naturally see that connection” Will