PebblePad

What is PebblePad?

PebblePad is a Personal Learning Environment consisting of two main tools: Pebble+ and ATLAS. It allows Griffith students to collect, curate, create, communicate and share achievements, personal capabilities and professional skills. Griffith staff can similarly curate and create professional portfolios and evidence of achievements.

PebblePad includes a fully integrated assessment engine to facilitate feedback and marks, as well as a host of clever tools to support formative and summative assessment. These include integrated rubrics, feedback templates, scorecards, peer review, multi-level approvals and more.

Why use PebblePad?

PebblePad allows for flexible design of learning materials. Students can use custom workbooks and templates for experiences such as laboratory sessions, work placements and professional capabilities.

PebblePad integrates with Learning@Griffith and can be used for assessment, feedback, reporting and archiving.

Staff and students can use PebblePad to:

• Collect: This includes examples and experiences from course to course, evidence of participation, practice, capabilities and experiences.
• Curate: Because artefacts are collected across a student’s enrolment period, students can easily choose to highlight specific skills and knowledge.
• Create: Using collected and curated artefacts, students can build portfolios that include rich content to showcase skills and abilities.
• Communicate: Share achievements, personal capabilities and professional skills.

How to access PebblePad at Griffith

PebblePad can be accessed via the Staff Portal or from within Learning@Griffith, in the menu of each course site. Log in to your Griffith account with your sNumber and password.

Using PebblePad for assessment

PebblePad can be used for assessment including:

• placement workbooks
• reflection journals
• portfolios

For information on how PebblePad and Canvas assessments interact, see Setting up a PebblePad Assignment in Canvas.

ATLAS

When using PebblePad for assessment, you need to also use its companion application, ATLAS. ATLAS is the marking manager for PebblePad, and creates a connection between PebblePad and our Learning Management System.

While PebblePad brings significant benefits, designing workbooks and ensuring good integration into your course can take some time and experience. Your Learning Teaching Consultants (LTCs) can assist with this.

For more information, see  Learning and Teaching Support - PebblePad (Sharepoint)