External Examiners

Blackboard Induction for External Examiners

Below is a curated set of pages from TLC which should help you carry out your duties. It focusses on accessing student assessments and grades.

Introduction to Blackboard

Blackboard is Aston’s Virtual Learning Environment.Log into Blackboard at vle.aston.ac.uk using your Aston username and password.On the Welcome page, under the My Courses title, you can see a list of modules available to you. If you are missing modules from this list, please contact your liaison at Aston who can .It is suggested that you customise the view of the My courses panel to make it easier to browse.Once you have confirmed that you have access to the required modules you should follow the The Blackboard Environment & Content guide. This will give you an overview of the module interface and show you the basics of building your content. If you are familiar with Blackboard already you can skip this step.

Viewing Student Grades

We use primarily two assessment tools at Aston, the built-in Blackboard assignment and Turnitin. Grades for both tools can be found in the Grade Center. Here is some guidance on accessing and navigating the Grade Center.To view a specific submission, you can select that submission, open the context menu and choose the Grade Details.

As Turnitin is a separate third-party tool, there is a separate interface you can access which gives you more information. You can access the Turnitin tool by opening the Course Tools menu on the left and scrolling down to Turnitin Assignments. From here you’ll be taken to a list of assignments in that module and clicking through them will take you to the assignment inbox where you can view student grades and the associated similarity reports.