Assessment
The subject holder’s own scheme: components, points, weights and grade bands.
Study and exams
Assignments and deadlines
A thin course layer on the timetable, not a learning platform. The lecturer sets an assignment for a subject, the students hand in a file by the deadline, and the points the lecturer gives go into the subject’s assessment — and from there to the weights, the exam condition and the grade proposal.
- The deadline in the timetable and in the student’s calendar
- Points go into the assessment, not a second gradebook
- Attendance can be a condition for the exam
What it does
- An assignment per subject: a title, instructions, the assessment component it counts towards, the most points it can earn, and when it opens, is due and closes.
- One hand-in, as many versions as needed. A student uploads a file; a new upload before the deadline makes a new version, the earlier ones are kept and the latest counts.
- Late work is the lecturer’s choice. If late hand-ins are allowed they are taken and marked as late; if not, the assignment simply closes.
- Grading in one place. The lecturer opens the hand-ins of a subject, reads each file and gives points. The points are written into the assessment as the component’s result.
- Tied to a lesson, if you wish. An assignment, or an item of course materials, can name the date of the lesson it belongs to; the student sees “For the lesson on …” beside it.
How it goes
The lecturer sets the assignment
On their own page of the web timetable, under the subject they teach: what is asked, how many points it is worth, and the dates.
The student sees it with its deadline
On the student portal, and as a small “Due 14:00 — title” mark in the heading of that day in the web timetable. The student uploads the file; it is checked and kept.
The lecturer reads and grades
Each hand-in opens as a file with its versions. The lecturer gives points; from then on the work is locked. Clearing the grade clears the points and reopens the upload.
The points do the rest
They count in the assessment’s weights, in the exam condition if the subject has one, and in the grade the lecturer proposes. Nobody types them in a second time.
Deadlines where students already look
Students do not open a course page to find out what is due; they open the timetable.
- In the web timetable, a signed-in student sees a small mark with the time and title in the heading of the day a deadline falls on. It is shown only for work that is not handed in and not closed, and it sits apart from the lessons, because a deadline is not a lesson.
- In the student’s own calendar. On the assignments page the student gets one calendar address, to subscribe to in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. Each open assignment becomes a short event ending at the deadline with a reminder a day before; once the work is handed in, it drops out.
- Separate from the timetable feed on purpose. The timetable the school publishes is for everyone; a student’s deadlines are personal, so they are a feed of their own, switched on by the student.
Attendance as a condition for the exam
The third part of the thin layer, for schools that keep attendance with the QR lists. A school that runs Wise Ed has its own attendance rule in the student records instead.
- One rule per school: the lowest attendance, in per cent, that lets a student register for an exam, and the fewest recorded lessons before the rule applies (three, unless the school sets another number). Switched off, nothing changes. The settings are “Attendance required for an exam (percent)” and, beside it, the number of lessons counted, in the “Exam periods and registration” group of the school’s web settings.
- Counted from the register. Present and late count for the student; left early and absent count against. Lessons that are excused or not yet confirmed are left out. The count starts on the first of October of the academic year of the exam.
- The student is told why. A registration the rule stops shows the reason with the student’s own rate and the rate required, not a bare refusal. The student office can still register the student, with a reason.
- Where attendance is kept is attendance; the rule reads it, it does not ask for a second record.
Who can do what
- The lecturers of the subject set assignments, read every hand-in and give the points.
- A student sees only their own work, the assignments of their own subjects and their own deadlines.
- Files that can run anything are refused, and a file is limited in size (four megabytes unless the school allows up to eight).
- Graded work is locked. A hand-in cannot be replaced after it has points; the lecturer reopens it by clearing the grade.
Not yet
- Quizzes, forums and plagiarism checks are not part of Wise Ed. They belong in the school’s learning platform, which Wise Ed connects to rather than replaces.
- The deadline in the mobile app’s week view, and a button to renew the calendar address, are still to come.
Questions about assignments
We have Moodle. Do we need this as well?
Not if Moodle already does what you need. This is for schools without a learning platform, or with one that lecturers do not use for hand-ins, where the wish is simple: collect the work, grade it, and have the points in the assessment without typing them again.
Does the student need a new account?
No. A student signs in as they already do to the student pages, and the deadline mark in the timetable appears for the same sign-in.
Can the deadline reach the student’s phone calendar?
Yes. The student subscribes once to their own calendar address from the assignments page. Anyone who has that address can read the deadlines, so it is not to be shared.
Do we have to use the attendance rule?
No. It is off until the school sets a minimum, and a school can set it without using any other part of this page.
Works with
Each module works on its own. These are the ones it does more with.
Course materials
Lecturers’ files and links per subject, for the students who take it.
Exams and grades
Exam records, online grade entry, rules that say why, sign-off and the transcript.
Attendance
Roll call by the lecturer, QR attendance from the timetable, and alerts before it is too late.
For lecturers
Grades, assessment, materials, absences and the monthly report, on one web page.
See Wise Ed on your own school
Book an online presentation. We will walk through how your student office works today and show you the same job in Wise Ed — with your programmes, not a demonstration dataset.