Providing audio feedback remotely

St John the Baptist’s College (SJBC) opened as a Key Stage 3 co-educational all-ability school on 1st September 2017. It is located in the heart of the Portadown community but welcomes students from an array of neighbouring towns and villages and has an intake of 100 pupils in each year group. They introduced Google classroom very soon after the school was established.


Aoife Bradley is a beginning teacher of Modern Languages.


Aoife Bradley feedback.mp4

Key Learning

When thinking about feedback for pupils:

  • Try to ensure that feedback is timely and in a format pupils will respond to

  • Be consistent but use a range of different strategies to feed back to pupils

  • Any feedback process must be manageable

  • Remember that feedback is for pupils and their parents

  • Prioritise assessment for learning, not just assessment of learning


Questions to consider when planning for audio feedback:


How will I share the feedback with the pupils?

Can I create a 'class feedback' audio and give pupils opportunities to self-evaluate their work using the feedback?

Can I build other AfL into the way the lesson has been presented? (e.g. RAG for each learning activity/topic/teaching point)

How can I best communicate with parents to maximise the usefulness of the feedback?

Can I build consolidation learning into the feedback?



Making screencasts:

Aoife uses Screencastify, but there are many free tools to help you make a screencast. There are other presentation tools that allow the recording of presentations and creation of animated videos such as Adobe Spark, and Biteable.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nwZaYbUdgLUYtlwI_b_atdymHqPtTrTB/view?usp=sharing