Case studies and testimonials
See how UQ staff are using Inspera for their assessment.
Formative/low-weighted assessment
Inspera is most used for sequence assessment including tutorial problem sets, laboratory practicals, revision tasks, theory to practice exercises, data interpretation tasks, end of rotation assessments and reflections.
Written assessment
Inspera is suitable for all kinds of written assessments including case studies, reports, treatment plans, or other professional work artefacts such as site briefs.
A popular application particularly in first- and second-year courses is to ‘deconstruct’ an extended written task into separate ‘questions’ to guide the structure of the writing and allow teaching of the components of different genres.
Note: Turnitin is integrated within Inspera for essay and file upload-type questions. It is integrated at the question level. This means a similarity report is generated on each individual question – you do not get a similarity report on the assessment overall. Turnitin is not yet student-facing for educative purposes.
Video submissions
Inspera has a File Upload question type that allows the submission of any file type, including videos. Interesting examples of how this has been used so far at UQ include:
- video submission of a clinical teaching session combined with essay questions requiring students to explain and justify their choice of the identified learning need and the adult learning theories they employed in the video
- creation of a video assessment ‘module’ including instructional information about the assessment, hyperlinks to useful resources, embedded rubrics, and a final checklist for students, as well as embedded marking guides for staff
- video submission in response to a randomly presented case study. A ‘pool’ of case study tasks can be created, and students can either select one of their choice or be randomly assigned one.
- choosing to use Inspera for the video submission, as other assessment in the course was in Inspera and it provided consistency for students.
Oral assessment
Oral assessment can be created in Inspera using the Audio Record question type. See a demo example.
Audio questions can be combined with other question types or various kinds of stimulus to create rich tasks. Questions can be randomised, or students can select a task to respond to from several options.
Recorded online oral assessment where a recording of the student and their screen is captured to allow identity verified oral assessment in a secure environment is being piloted in semester 2, 2024.
Examinations
Bring your own laptop (BYOL) digital on-campus examinations can be completed using Inspera Assessment.
Different question types, enhanced with ‘stimulus’ panels, multiple points of answer interaction, and multimedia options (images, video, GIFs) can be combined in an infinite number of ways, completely changing the conception of what an exam can be.
InsperaScan functionality allows the creation of hybrid (in-person only) assessment that combines both digital and paper (drawing) tasks.
Improved efficiency without compromising the quality of assessment or student feedback
Inspera was used to automate actionable feedback which students could use to independently fill their knowledge gaps.
Students indicated the consolidation of foundational knowledge gained through working with this feedback enabled them to confidently apply knowledge to factual scenario-based questions in more heavily weighted summative assessment.
View the blog post – Redesigning assessment in IBUS3306 (November 2023)
Improved student success and reduced student inquiries
Staff and students were delighted with the digital assessment experience in 2022 Semester 2 for the course ACCT1101 Accounting for Decision Making.
Several positive outcomes resulted in the use of Inpsera assessment, including more students successfully completing assessment and 50% fewer student inquiries about assessment.
View the blog post – Inspera Assessment uplift case study (January 2023)
Staff
Ease of use
“I find it quite easy to learn – quite a lot of it was self-explanatory, like the whole setup of questions and dragging them around.”
“Picked up authoring of quizzes quickly.”
“Feel pretty confident moving forward in a fairly independent way – feel I got the hang of it pretty quickly.”
“Could definitely do this independently. User friendly.”
Rich assessment tasks
“It gave me the opportunity to provide case examples and to then have students answer through a diverse range of question types.”
"Videos are great for animal behaviour in zoology, and what it means is you can assess students’ observation skills even if they are not on campus. You can assess observation in an exam. That’s different."
“I saw an example where they've done an oral assessment using the audio record question – that's one example of really jumping into these new possibilities of Inspera and rethinking how we're doing assessment and also how this is going to make it so much easier for both staff and tutors to be marking oral assessment.”
"In some cases, people are usually using it for more visual questions that we wouldn't normally see, which is a really nice strength of Inspera, especially in our allied health disciplines."
Students
Ease of use
“It is easy to use. After I attended the practice exam, I exactly knew how to use it and I did a good job on my exam.”
“Easy to use which takes out the stress of exams and quizzes.”
“It was very user-friendly. Gives me peace of mind, to focus on the test itself, rather than any other variables.”
“It was fairly easy to submit a video assignment. It was simple and quick.”
Engaging and clear assessment
“The format was good, different style questions allowed for a more versatile examination process.”
“The ability to have multiple follow-on questions related to a single 'case' gave me the ability to think the scenario through.”
“The symbolic logic was easy to use and faster than manually writing since it was drag and drop.”
“The questions were able to be displayed in a descriptive and illustrated format, making them easier to understand.”