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Jason Gulya
Jason GulyaPragmatist
AI and Alternative Assessment
Gulya walks through the single day he spent converting an online film course from traditional grading to alternative assessment, starting by rewriting the inherited course learning objectives as core skills and rebuilding the assessment structure on top of them. He is explicit that his own hybrid of competency-based, specifications and contract grading is neither finished nor generalisable, and that honesty is what makes the account usable, because you can see which decisions the course forced on him and which were simply his taste. Read it once you have concluded that the trade of work for grades is the real obstacle, and you want to know how much labour the change actually costs before you commit a term to it.
- Task
- Grading & feedback
- Time
- 12 min
- Level
- intermediate
- Cost
- Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.
- Tools
- None in particular
- Published
- 2026-04
- Voice
- Jason Gulya — Writes up the mechanics of moving a course to alternative assessment under AI conditions, and takes student resistance seriously rather than as non-compliance.
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