H810: Accessibility Ahead

All TMAs that were submitted on by October 18th have now been returned. You can pick your assignment back up from the eTMA system. Your returned assignment will contain additional files: an electronic PT3 form and another Word document named something like “MyAssignment-MARKED”, where “MyAssignment” is whatever you originally named your assignment file. The electronic PT3 contains a statement of your assignment mark plus my overall comments. These overall comments and a specific breakdown of how the marks were allocated is included in the “MARKED” copy of your assignment. That copy also contains numerous inline comments in large blue Verdana typeface as well as grammar corrections in large purple Verdana typeface. It should be easy to read either visually or using screen reader. If you have any problems, please let me know.

The above chart shows the distribution of marks. The actual range was 45% to 87%. In reviewing the allocation of scores, it was difficult to generalize where people tended to lose points. Some people lost points for online participation. Others lost points for not addressing all four topics in their essay or for not writing from a specific context. In general, though, people tended to do quite well at writing from their own context, but did not necessarily do so well at tying their context to concepts and ideas we have been covering in the course, like models of disability, the need for disability awareness and training, or how assistive technology can address identified challenges. While you are invited to reflect and write from your own context, I am looking for you to demonstrate that you can apply the ideas from the course to that context.

All in all, though, it was a good start to the course for everyone and there’s TMA 2 ahead in which to improve.