Feedback on work submitted (for all years) is returned via Tabula, the coursework management system. Students will receive an email when the feedback is ready to be downloaded. The feedback will provide students with some sense of what the markers regarded as the strengths and the weaknesses of assessments. It will also often offer some distilled advice in the form of several highlighted 'Ways to Improve'. Students are encouraged to contact module tutors and convenors to discuss the feedback on their assessed work.

 

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Timeliness of Feedback

Timeliness of Feedback  

In Terms 1 and 2, all students will receive written feedback on their work 20 working days after the deadline. Exceptions apply (see below).  

In Term 3, all students will receive written feedback on work submitted on time during the following weeks: 

• Final years: Term 3 Week 9

• First Years: Term 3 Week 10

• Intermediate Years: Term 3 Week 11 

Please note that feedback on work submitted late, or flagged to the Academic Conduct Panel, may be delayed.  

Please note that occasionally there are delays in marking, e.g. due to staff illness. The History Office will contact students if their feedback is delayed.  

In addition, all students can make appointments to attend a one-to-one tutorial with their seminar tutor to support the written feedback. Personal tutors can also offer general academic advice. The department encourages students to talk with staff to further understand how to improve their written work.   

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Making the Most of Feedback

1. Be confident! Go and see your tutor for feedback! Find out about your tutors’ availability and how they prefer to be contacted.
2. Prepare a few questions you want to ask before seeing your tutor. Perhaps email them to your tutor in advance.
3. Think about what you want feedback on e.g. structure, analysis, referencing? Be specific.
4. Discuss your assignments with other students (this is not ‘copying’).
5. Learn how to give constructive, tactful and positive feedback to other students.
6. Ask for constructive assignment feedback comments from other students.
7. Think about when, where and how you can get feedback – verbal, written, email, audio; from seminars, labs, before/after a lecture, and from other students.
8. Be organised – if you want feedback for your next assignment (from tutors or students) – don’t leave it until the last minute.
9. Use exemplars of assignments and discuss with other students – this will help you understand what is being required.
10. Get advice on how to improve for your next assignment – ‘feed-forward’.