Lightwork is a new application for the management and marking of assignments. In addition to making the process of working with assignments more efficient, Lightwork aims at encouraging good marking practices. Lightwork is open source and is designed to work in conjunction with Moodle. It builds on the assignment functionality Moodle offers and adds features that help with the marking tasks.

Lightwork is an application that runs on the user’s PC. It connects to the institution’s Moodle installation and works together with the assignment module and Gradebook in Moodle. Students still submit their assignment work to Moodle and receive their marks and feedback via Moodle. Students do not interact with Lightwork directly. After having setup the assignment specification in Moodle, the teacher and their markers work in Lightwork to manage the marking and to perform the marking tasks.

Lightwork Version 2 is now available. Lightwork 2.3.1 is the recommended Lightwork version. The corresponding Team Assignment activity is being finalised.

Major changes from Lightwork Version 1 to Version 2

Lightwork application downloads for the current recommended Lightwork version

Lightwork documentation and recommendations for educationally sound use

Frequently asked questions

Lightwork Version 1 (previously called Lightwork Core) has been available since March 2010.

The Lightwork Version 1 Evaluation Report provides an analysis of Lightwork use across four New Zealand tertiary institutions in the first semester of 2010.

The full project development information, including requirement specifications, roadmap, issue register, source code and software downloads for development versions, is available at http://lightwork.massey.ac.nz/. This site also contains the Moodle patches you need to enable a Moodle site for connection from Lightwork.

To prevent any database conflicts when changing from one version to the next remove the folder 'lightworkdb' from your user directory (e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\eheinric\lightworkdb) (this will be taken care of automatically in future versions).

Lightwork is developed with funding from the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand. General project information is available at http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/projects/e-learning-support-assignment-management-and-marking.

Last Update: August 2010