Feedback is a crucial part of the student experience and helps learning (Parkin et al 2012; West and Turner 2015) encouraging teacher-student interaction and learner engagement (Nicol 2010). Good timely feedback is a benchmark of a high quality student experience (Lizzio and Wilson 2008). The NSS has highlighted feedback is an area where institutions do not perform as well as they would like. To better this many universities have implemented strategies to improve feedback which invariably involves technology facilitated learning (HEA 2012). The School of Nursing addressed this issue in a progressive and student focused manner by moving towards online assessment and feedback in coherent and evidence based fashion.
This has relevance in the international arena as universities seek to internationalise their products. Robust valid and reliable assessment practices in the online environment will prove to be a key factor going forward. This study demonstrates how a move to online assessment can be managed positively.
