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How you will receive your feedback

Formal written feedback on work submitted (for all undergraduate and postgraduate taught students) is returned via Tabula. You will receive an email when the feedback is ready to be downloaded.

Tutors may also discuss generalised feedback in class.

You are strongly encouraged to contact your marker (usually your seminar tutor) by email or in office hours to discuss the feedback on your assessed work.

Personal tutors can also offer general academic advice.

When you will receive your feedback

In Terms 1 and 2, all students will usually receive written feedback on their work 20 working days after the deadline.

In Term 3, all students will receive written feedback on work submitted on time during the following weeks:

• Final years: Term 3 Week 9

• First Years: Term 3 Week 10

• Intermediate Years: Term 3 Week 11

Please note:

• Feedback on work submitted late, or flagged to the Academic Conduct Panel, may be delayed.
• Occasionally there are delays in marking, e.g. due to staff illness. The History Office will contact students if their feedback is delayed.

What to expect in your feedback

The feedback that you receive will help you to understand the mark that you have been awarded. Just as we do not expect you to write formulaic essays, we do not expect markers to write formulaic feedback, but rather to engage with your work on an individual basis. Therefore the style and tone of feedback will vary across markers.

Markers may not always refer to all elements of the marking criteria in any given piece of feedback, and they may use different terminology to describe the merits of your work.

For further information, see the Marking Criteria.

Making the Most of Feedback

1. Be confident! Go and see your tutor for feedback. Find out about your tutors’ availability and how they prefer to be contacted.
2. Prepare a few questions you want to ask before seeing your tutor. Perhaps email them to your tutor in advance.
3. Think about what you want feedback on e.g. structure, analysis, referencing? Be specific.
4. Discuss your assignments with other students (this is not ‘copying’ or 'collusion').
5. Learn how to give constructive, tactful and positive feedback to other students.
6. Ask for constructive assignment feedback comments from other students.
7. Think about when, where and how you can get feedback – verbal, written, email, audio; from seminars, before/after a lecture, and from other students.
8. Be organised – if you want feedback for your next assignment (from tutors or students) – don’t leave it until the last minute.
9. Use exemplars of assignments and discuss them with other students – this will help you understand what is being required.
10. Ask for advice on how to improve for your next assignment – ‘feed-forward’.