A Portal-Based Gradebook - DAG-Based Definition of Assessment Criteria in Higher Education

Assessment activities play a central role in university courses. Several types and methods of assessment can be combined to (a) motivate students to actively participate in exercises and (b) to assess learning outcomes. This article presents an approach to implement IT-supported standard processes for managing assessment activities in higher education. A model that is based on a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is used to define a reusable and shareable format of assessment criteria. A prototypical implementation shows how this approach can be realized.