Cadmus

In the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, we are using Cadmus to enhance the student experience of assessment and to support student learning through assessment. Feedback from students and staff using Cadmus has been very positive. Thousands of students used Cadmus during the last semester and we have seen a significant uptick in staff requesting access to the platform to support their teaching. The Cadmus team have been incredibly responsive to our queries and questions. They are supporting our ongoing work to design out academic malpractice, improve student understanding of the assessment criteria and help us gain insights into feedback. We are looking forward to working with them again this semester as we try to tackle some of the challenges in student assessment.

Our assessment reform at the University of Manchester is focused on ensuring that our assessments are inclusive, relevant, and trustworthy. With the recent change in landscape with Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models such as ChatGPT, we have sought the assistance of Cadmus to help the university ensure that our students, colleagues, and regulators have confidence in our assessment processes. AI is here to stay, and we are keen to work with students to best support their learning and engage them in authentic assessment.

I loved the layout and formatting of Cadmus, and it was so helpful having all the instructions separated out into a step-by-step checklist. This made the workload so much more manageable and I knew exactly what I had to do to complete it.