This site contains a multitude of tools that are designed to make our jobs easier via the team at the Colchester Institute. These are currently aimed at those teaching UAL Media but if there is enough interest I can add varied tools for other courses and requirements. 

Marking tools will allow you to generate extensive general comments tailored to specific criteria that you input, or will analyse the student work you paste to throw out comments you can use as specific feedback to the learner. 

General comments are designed as assessment filler. These range from comments specific to typical areas that learners tend to require feedback for, to randomised tips that you can throw in as generalised feedforward commentary. 

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Teacher tools are designed to take the work out of admin tasks such as writing emails, creating smart targets or writing statements. These are designed for consistency and formality. 

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Creative tools is an area which I call "the playground" where I experiment with creating different tools that we might find useful or useless, either way they are fun and potentially handy. 

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Please feel free to share these tools with your colleagues and friends in other colleges too and hopefully we can help save some time. 

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If you notice any tools are broken or have suggestions for features please email me at bill.saunders@colchester.ac.uk