Assessment optionality: help to shape our research

The University is working with Manchester, Imperial and UCL on a Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) funded project to explore the potential for assessment optionality – and we want to hear your thoughts.

What is assessment optionality?

Assessment optionality is defined in our project as student choice. For example, this could mean choice around when students submit assessments or the format in which they submit assessments. This could have several benefits including more inclusive assessment, mitigating against malpractice, supporting individual learning needs, and improving the student experience.

The project (in collaboration with the University of Manchester, Imperial College London and UCL) will investigate academic and student opinions on the feasibility and practicality of assessment optionality – as well as exploring what colleagues are already doing in this area, and how we could empower and enable more colleagues to try it for themselves.

QAA Optionality in Assessment

Get involved

What does the future of assessment look like? Give us your thoughts!

Our student survey aims to understand student opinions on how useful increased choice would be for your studies and assessment, and how this could work in practice. We have already carried out a survey with teaching staff, but it’s really important that student voices are also reflected in this project.

The survey should only take 10 minutes to complete and will close on Wednesday 7 June 2023.

Students from Manchester, Imperial and UCL will also be completing the survey, and we’ll use the results to inform our next steps.

Complete the student optionality in assessment survey

Students have the opportunity to enter a prize draw.

Enter the prize draw

If you have any questions on the survey, please contact the Flexible Learning team at FlexibleLearning@manchester.ac.uk