Education/Training

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Dr Peter Evans
http:// eMarkingAssistant.com

eMarking Assistant awarded commendation at the 2010 Australian IMS Learning Impact Awards

Toowoomba, Australia. 28 March 2010 -The eMarking Assistant (also called eGrading Assistant) software received a commendation at the recent 2010 Australian IMS Learning Impact Awards. The IMS Global Learning Consortium is a global association promoting the learning and technology industries through standards, innovation and recognition of superior learning impact.

eMarking Assistant helps teachers provide effective feedback on electronic assignments and papers. Feedback on papers and assessment is one of the major ways students monitor and improve their work and this is becoming increasingly important with the increased popularity of online eLearning. But unfortunately marking and grading papers is not generally well resourced by universities and colleges and markers are required to mark ever larger numbers of papers in shorter time. In addition, often the most inexperienced and junior staff have the highest marking loads. While there are many tools to help students submit and retrieve assignments and administrative tools to record and process marks, there are few tools to help graders and markers provide detailed assessment feedback.

eMarking Assistant has been developed to help university, college and secondary school teachers provide detailed and useful feedback in an efficient way. eMarking Assistant allows teachers to quickly build banks of reusable comments containing text, images, links, tables and recorded audio and then select these from floating toolbars to insert into student assignments. These reusable comments can be saved to comment banks and shared with other teachers . Comment banks can also be "harvested" from a folder of assignments that have been marked using Word track changes and Word comments.

eMarking Assistant also contains templates to create automated marking rubrics which respond to toolbar buttons clicks by highlighting performance standards then recording, totalling and rescaling the marks. The performance standard and mark can also be easily inserted as comments into the margin of the assignment.

The eMarking Assistant site contains several videos and guided tours demonstrating the use of eMarking Assistant and creating and using the automated marking rubrics-. The site also contains comment banks and marking rubrics which have been shared by other eMarking Assistant users.

A 60 day fully functional trial of eMarking Assistant is available at so you can start to reclaim your weekends and improve learning outcomes. Currently every third person who downloads and installs eMarking Assistant will win a voucher for a 1 year license to eMarking Assistant.