Drawing a graph 9. Each of the assignment on a Course is part of the assessment structure of the Course as a whole. Even where assignments are formative, feedback to the student is related to helping better preparation and performance on another assignment which is assessed. The present pattern in the UKOU is that upto 8 TMAs and 8 CMAs can be set for continuous assessment on a full credit course and upto 4 each on a half-credit course. About two-thirds of the undergraduate courses do not use CMAs at all.
All courses use TMAs.
About one-fifth use a combination of TMAs and CMAs. The work for several TMAs may be combined in the form of a project and about one-fifth of undergraduate courses in 1986 used them. All these features offer flexibility to course teams to design assessment which encourage the kind of learning desired. It can vary if the course team desires. The following example indicates the combination of a variety of elements.