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Authentic assessment
and feedback

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Assess knowledge and real-world skills
to equip students for the future

Integrating authentic or work-relevant experiences into the curriculum improves the learning experience and prepares students for the world of work.

PebblePad can support a range of authentic learning and assessment designs that make the process of learning visible, enable dialogic feedback and empower students – at scale.

Whether your students are learning on campus, out in the workplace, or on placement, field trips or volunteering, university staff or external supervisors and assessors can easily provide timely feedback and guidance.

Assess activities in and out of the classroom

Leverage workbooks to augment the curriculum and support extra-curricular learning.

  • Competency based assessment
  • Reflection and analysis
  • Portfolio assessment
  • Collaborative projects
  • Placement
  • Self and peer review
  • Video tasks and much more!

Support extra & co-curricular activities

Leverage workbooks to augment the curriculum and support extra-curricular learning. PebblePad supports students to:

  • Engage at a pace and place that suits them.
  • Gain and accrue micro-credentials.
  • Enjoy guidance during internships or placements.

Powerful authentic assessment features

PebblePad offers real-time insights into ongoing work and the option to involve external mentors. Staff can support students during any learning experience, even when students are off-campus.

View live work-in-development and engage in feedback conversations during the process of learning.

Access on-the-go

The PebblePocket app allows on-the-go reflection, recording of evidence, digital sign-off and more. Students can:

  • Create simple records of learning.
  • Add photos or videos.
  • Save, edit or remove assets on their device.
  • Continue to work when they don't have internet access.

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GUIDES

Want to dive deeper into PebblePad platform capabilities? Review the platform page and request the features and functions guide.

WEBINARS

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"Using templates developed in PebblePocket, students undertake clinical assessments in real time, ensuring assessments are contextualised and integrated into clinical learning."
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Key tools to support assessment

See how educators are using the PebblePad platform across disciplines to support students with authentic learning, assessment and feedback.

Learning templates

Scaffold learning with out-of-the-box templates or customise to support Professional Standards, Competency Frameworks or Graduate Attributes.

Evidence capabilities

Make it easier and faster to record and link evidence against multiple skills and capabilities.

Real-time feedback

Make learning visible and give assessors the power to provide formative feedback in real time at multiple points across a task.

Easy access

Access any-time, anywhere, even offline with the PebblePocket App.

Features and Functions Guide

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Built for the ambitions of higher education

Explore how PebblePad supports teaching, learning and assessment ambitions across five key themes.

Authentic
assessment
and feedback

Flexible
learning
design

Belonging,
wellbeing
and success

Employable
and future
ready

Professional
identity and
capability

Authentic
assessment
& feedback

Flexible
learning
design

Belonging,
wellbeing
& success

Employable
& Future
ready

Professional
identity &
capability

Sallie

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We will be recording (audio/video) the presentations during the event. A conference photographer will also be capturing moments for our highlights reel. The video and photography will be used to share insights and market PebbleBash to the wider HE community. We do not give automatic refunds, please see the cancellation policy in the FAQs.

Curriculum Transformation at the University of Edinburgh: co-creation and the relationship between local innovation and institutional change

Talk description: I will use the themes of reflection and experiential learning, skills development and assessment (including programme level assessment and changes in assessment practice) to explore this process in more detail. This includes the link between disciplinary and institutional curriculum reform, learning from local innovations and changes, and using this to inform University level changes and support.

Bio: My current position is leading the University wide Curriculum Transformation Project. This is a major and long term initiative for the University considering all areas of the University’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate curriculum. Prior to this Jon set up and led the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) at the University of Edinburgh. The IAD provides University level support for teaching, learning and researcher development, including direct support for students and staff, and support for enhancement and innovation in curriculum development, the student and researcher experience. Jon has a PhD in petroleum geology.

Mission Possible: The DNA of a bespoke professional development program

Talk description: The diversity of students in higher education dictates that there cannot (and should not) be a single ‘silver bullet’ approach to address the complex challenge of career readiness learning. However, the reality of modern university structures is that delivering bespoke experiences for each student is a challenge in and of itself.  And yet, all things are possible with creative use of PebblePad to streamline delivery (for the university) and make it highly personalised (for the student). 

Bio: Gayle Brent is a Learning and Teaching Consultant (Employability) at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Gaye’s specialist area of interest is developing and implementing strategies to enhance staff and student understanding of employability in both curricular and extra-curricular contexts. She completed a Master of Education and Professional Studies Research to explore the potential barriers and challenges to embedding employability-based learning in higher education curriculum and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy exploring the impact of an extra-curricular employability program on the individual student experience.

Dr Melissa Highton. Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh

Talk description: A journey through the stories told by wicca data. How a neglected research data set was used by students to overturn historic injustice and shed new light on the lives of women in Scotland.

Bio: Melissa has worked for many years in higher education at some of the UK’s finest and most ancient institutions. In each place she enjoys discovering the hidden histories and less heard voices which can be surfaced in new ways using the most up to date and open technologies. She is a champion of playful and curious approaches to engagement with audiences on campus and online, and is an invited speaker at events about dangerous women.

Education is an Experience That Should Be Designed

Talk description: We have any number of problems and opportunities as universities, and universities must adapt to help students from diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge and skills they need to thrive and make a positive impact in the world. Key to those adaptations is understanding that we provide students with an experience. We ought to design them with intention and purpose. This talk with take up this argument and ground it within a large educational transformation project at the University of Leeds.

Bio: Jeff Grabill is Deputy Vice Chancellor for Student Education at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Grabill was at Michigan State University (MSU) in the United States for nearly 20 years. He served Michigan State University as the Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. In that role, he was responsible for facilitating innovation in learning and educator professional development via his role as Director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology. Grabill’s research focuses on how digital writing is associated with citizenship and learning. That work has been located in community contexts, in museums, and in classrooms at both the K-12 and university levels. Grabill is also a co-founder of Drawbridge, an educational technology company.

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