What is the difference between PebblePad and ATLAS?
Learn the key uses and differences between the two platforms.
Key uses and differences
The table below provides a summary of the key uses and differences of both platforms.
| PebblePad | ATLAS |
|---|---|
A personal and private learning space for staff and students | An institutional assessment space for students to formally submit assessments to and for teaching staff to manage assessment submissions |
All organised by the user | Allows teaching staff to manage formal assessment by tutorial or by group sets |
Private and secure and visible only to the student or staff member unless they choose to share | Submissions can be seen by teaching staff who can grade and provide feedback |
Students can choose to share and collaborate with other users , to the web and to ATLAS subject workspaces for assessment | Data and analytics reports on assessment submissions and student engagement with ATLAS assessments It may be used to identify at-risk students |
A place for teaching staff to share digital resources they wish students to complete, such as workbooks and templates | A place for teaching staff to distribute formal assessment resources |
A place for students to develop creative and interactive assessments | A place where assessments are stored for archival purposes |
In-built templates for meaningful reflective practice | Feedback templates such as rubrics and scorecards can be used for both formal and informal feedback to students for subject assessments |
Asset and resource store management for users to organise their Pebblepad | Teaching staff can easily grant access to external assessors |
A platform with existing templates and a creative suite of tools | Canvas LMS integration
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This guide was last updated 03 May 2022.
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