Learn about Cadmus Group Assessments, its features, and instructions for setting them up.
Group Assessment is a new type of assignment focusing on collaborative student projects that you can create in Cadmus. Unlike classic Cadmus, which primarily supports long-form text-based assessments, and Cadmus Multi-format Assessments, which support question-based assessments like quizzes, Group Assessment allows students to work together and submit assessments, and teachers to facilitate the end-to-end process.
Group Assessment offers tools that facilitate:
Group formation and role allocation
Expectation setting
Project management
Collaborative editing and writing
Sentiment Checks
Visibility into individual and group-level progress
Group Report
Individual Assessment
Peer Evaluation
Self Evaluation
Group Charter
To set up a group assessment
If your institution has enabled Group assessments, follow these instructions to set one up
- Launch Cadmus using the (external tool) link from within your LMS.
- Select Group Assessment as the format of the assessment.
- Set the requirements and settings. Configure critical assessment-related settings such as components, weightage, word limit, marking, and referencing. You can also select whether you wish to add a group charter and sentiment check.
- Add the instructions for the group and individual projects, if applicable. In this step, you can add a rubric by creating a new rubric in Cadmus, attaching a pre-existing rubric or attaching additional resources.
- Create groups by dividing students equally at random or manually, via self-enrolment, or by importing groups from a file.
- If the Group Charter is enabled, add the charter overview, timeline, and milestones, and read-only or text input sections.
- If Peer evaluation is enabled, add instructions and a rubric for peer evaluation.
- In the last step, add the final due dates for the group charter, group report, individual report, peer evaluation, and feedback due date for the group assessment.
- Click on Release Instructions in the Instructions tab to share the assessment instructions with your students.
