Cadmus - Instructor Resources

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Introduction

Cadmus is an online assessment platform, accessed through MyUni. It enables teachers to create written assessment tasks for students to complete. Cadmus is designed to simplify the process of delivering high-quality assessment experiences to students while helping them learn and develop academic skills.

Cadmus is recommended for a range of individual written assessment tasks such as essays, literature reviews, lab reports, and tutorial activities.

Cadmus isn't supported on every browser. Some browsers, particularly older ones, don't support all the functionality required for Cadmus. It is accessible using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, however, we recommend using Chrome for the best experience.

When using Cadmus for the first time in a course, we strongly recommend providing students with a formative activity that provides them with an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the user interface and functionality.

Creating a Cadmus Assignment

Start by creating an assignment in Canvas (MyUni)

1. In your MyUni course, Create a new Assignment.

2. Add assignment Name and Description. We strongly recommend that you include a description that informs students that they will use Cadmus to generate the assignment. Include an introduction to Cadmus, especially if it is the first Cadmus assignment. This is an example of a standard description.

3. Under Points specify how many marks the assessment is worth.
Don't set this to 0 — student grades will not pull through from Cadmus correctly.

4. In the Submission Type section, select External Tool from the dropdown menu. Select Cadmus from the list of external tools.

5. You need to set Due dates in MyUni Assignments. Dates will be also set in Cadmus settings as explained in the "Assignment setup requirements" tab below, so make sure dates are aligned in both MyUni and Cadmus environments.

6. Click Save to finish setting up the Cadmus link.

7. You have created a link to Cadmus assignment.

Video: Accessing Cadmus Assignment in Canvas

Overview of Cadmus Teacher Environment

Cadmus Assignment Setup Requirements

After creating Cadmus assignment link in MyUni, you need to set up the Cadmus assignment details:

Note: When you set up the assignment requirements for marking, we recommended the " Use Canvas SpeedGrader for marking" option.

Marking and Feedback

Managing your class in Cadmus

Managing My Class Page
Video: Intro to My Class
Managing Extensions
Filtering, Sorting and tagging students in your class

Setting up groups for multiple markers

Before setting up groups in Cadmus, make sure to sync your class list.

Setting up groups in Cadmus class
Video: Setting up groups in Cadmus class
Uploading groups from a Spreadsheet

Marking and Feedback

Allowing Annonymous Marking in Cadmus

Providing Feedback on draft submissions

Marking using MyUni Speedgrader

Marking using Turn-it-in

Cadmus Insights

Cadmus FAQs

What is Cadmus?
Cadmus is an online assessment platform, accessed through MyUni. It enables teachers to create written assessment tasks for students to complete. Cadmus is designed to simplify the process of delivering high-quality assessment experiences to students while helping them learn and develop academic skills.
Which assessment tasks is Cadmus best suited for?

Cadmus can be used for a range of written assessment tasks. However, it is only recommended for certain assessment types. Cadmus is designed for individual written assessment tasks, such as literature reviews, essays, lab reports or case studies.

We do not recommend Cadmus for formal highly formatted written reports, such as professional written reports requiring Table of Contents, Headers, Footers or complex tables and Appendices.

Which courses can use Cadmus?
Cadmus is available within all courses in MyUni.

How does Cadmus work?
Watch this Intro to Cadmus Video
Who can I contact if I have questions relating to the set-up of Cadmus assignments?

If you need help incorporating Cadmus in the assessment design for the course, please contact LEI Learning Designers/Educational Technologists.

For MyUni set up questions, please contact myunisupport@adelaide.edu.au
How does Cadmus support academic integrity?

Watch this video: Using Analytics for Academic Integrity

Known issue: If grades are not syncing automatically, please contact myunisupport@adelaide.edu.au

Cadmus and ChatGPT

As the higher education sector finds ways to harness and embrace the recent release of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms which present immediate risk of academic misconduct in assessment creation, specifically contract cheating, Cadmus will continue to support university partners through this with long-established and sophisticated academic integrity capabilities.

Within Cadmus, educators have access to real-time analytics, which monitor the process around students’ development of their assessment rather than trying to catch AI-generated content at the point of submission. Educators can identify how many hours a student has spent writing their assessment in Cadmus, if the work was copied and pasted or transcribed into Cadmus, and the source from which the pasted work originated.

You may read a document below prepared by Cadmus to support the higher education sector:

Read the Cadmus ChatGPT Guidance note

Cadmus webinars recordings

- What is Cadmus?

- Setting up your first Cadmus assignment

- Exam Alternatives

- Academic Integrity with Cadmus

Need help?

If you need help incorporating Cadmus into the assessment design for your course, please contact LEI Learning Designers/Educational Technologists.

For MyUni set up questions, please log a request via the MyIT Portal

Known issue: If grades are not syncing automatically, please get in contact via the MyIT Portal