Learn how the University of Edinburgh found new ways to utilise PebblePad for authentic learning and to supply feedback at pace.
In this use case featured at PebbleBash 2024, Paul McLaughlin at the School of Biological Science reveals how our platform was reconfigured for classes of up to 400 third-year students to support and assess their unique complexes. To achieve this, the School used PebblePad to:
- Create workbooks where students are given a task to find data on their unique complex using a different website and different aspect each week.
- Benefit from PebblePad’s ability to download all student work as a CSV file and make direct links to submitted image files, enabling rapid feedback.
- Introduce peer feedback that allowed students to learn how to gauge their work against others – as well as gauge their own feedback’s quality against another.
This new approach has been met with approval by students as they feel they are ‘doing’ their subject – rather than being told what to learn and what to believe – giving them a sense of genuine progression.
To discover how PebblePad can be used to innovate in authentic assessment, download the exclusive use case now.
