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Beyond the mark: Automating assessment quality assurance in Moodle

In an era of increased scrutiny around grading fairness, academic integrity, and regulatory compliance, higher education institutions must evolve how they manage and assure assessments. This session explores how Moodle can support robust, transparent, and scalable quality assurance (QA) processes—without creating administrative overload.

We’ll demonstrate how automated workflows in Moodle can streamline internal moderation, external verification, blind marking, marker allocation, grade reconciliation, and audit trails—making assessment more consistent, accountable, and defensible at scale.

You’ll see how Moodle can be extended to enable:

  • Seamless moderation workflows with automated notifications and QA oversight
  • Dynamic assessor allocation and triple-blind marking
  • Transparent grade justification and built-in dispute resolution
  • Audit-friendly logs and evidence capture
  • Automated marking of assessment criteria triggered by eLearning or tutor-led sessions
  • Charging for assignment resits via our native Moodle Shop—without manual steps

We’ll also showcase dashboards that visualise learner progress, including incomplete or referred criteria, and RAG-rated overviews for tutors and institutional managers.

Grounded in real-world implementations across universities and professional bodies, this session shows how institutions are moving beyond spreadsheets and siloed processes to implement intelligent, policy-aligned assessment workflows—entirely within Moodle.

Attendees will leave with:

  • A blueprint for automating key QA and assessment workflows
  • Ready-to-use examples of templates, triggers, and dashboards
  • Insights into designing assessment journeys that meet academic and regulatory standards
  • A look at our upcoming roadmap: offline marking, penalty handling, sample feedback workflows, and escalation logic


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