A

• Anonymous marking Anonymous marking is the practice of marking students’ work without the marker knowing who wrote it.
• Audit trail in assessment An audit trail in assessment is a time-stamped record of the actions taken during an exam and its marking, showing who did what, and when.

B

• BYOD assessment BYOD (bring your own device) assessment is when students sit digital exams on their own laptops or tablets, not on institution computers.

C

• Contract cheating Contract cheating is when a student submits work as their own that has been produced, in whole or in part, by someone else.

D

• Double marking Double marking is when two markers each assess the same piece of work and their judgements are combined into one final grade.

G

• Grade justification Grade justification is the assessor’s written or oral explanation of why a piece of work received the grade it did.

L

• Lockdown browser A lockdown browser is an application that restricts a computer to a single exam, blocking other programs, websites and files until the student submits.
• LTI 1.3 LTI 1.3 (Learning Tools Interoperability) is an open standard for securely connecting learning platforms with external tools.
• LTI Advantage LTI Advantage is a set of services built on LTI 1.3 that lets learning platforms and external tools share content, participants and grades.

M

• Moderation Moderation is the process of checking that marks are fair, consistent and in line with the agreed standards before they are confirmed.

Q

• QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) is an open standard format that lets exam questions and tests move between assessment systems.

R

• Rubric A rubric is a marking guide that sets out the criteria for a piece of work and describes each criterion at different levels of quality.

S

• Second marking Second marking is when a second marker reviews or re-marks work that has already been marked, to confirm or adjust the first marker’s grade.
• Semantic similarity detection Semantic similarity detection is a method of comparing texts by their meaning rather than by their exact wording.
• Similarity score A similarity score is a measure of how much of a submitted text matches other sources, usually shown as a percentage.