Everyone who completes STRIVE will get the digital badge and receive a certificate of completion at the STRIVE celebration event in March 2025.
However, to claim your 300 RISE points you will need to complete your STRIVE assessment.
This is a team based assessment (which you can then use for your RISE assessment).
The STRIVE assessment is a video of up to 15 mins, reflecting on the team’s experience of STRIVE so far. It is recommended that you collectively use your STRIVE reflections to pull together a team based video.
Friend to STRIVE, Rex Obeng from University of Hertfordshire, has developed this amazing STRIVE Assessment and Feedback tool, that will help you understand how you are being assessed. It will give you feedback on your video before you submit, I highlighting areas for improvement in order for you to maximise your grade.
I strongly recommend that you record your video when you have some spare time between Semester 1 and Semester 2. You may have attended the assessment support session last week – if not, please post your questions on UniBuddy and one of the STRIVERs who did attend or someone from the broader STRIVE team will come back to you.
Your STRIVE assessments are due by 1st March 2025.
The STRIVE team will select their favourite 3 videos (favourite videos does not necessarily mean the videos that achieve the highest marks) and each team will receive £100 vouchers as a prize.
Submit your STRIVE assessment as a RISE assessment
Your RISE assessment, is assessed by the RISE team and is due end of April 2025 (which is why your mentoring continues until the end of April)
The RISE assessment is how you are able to claim your 300 RISE points and in doing so, be eligible for additional academic credit, which could potentially improve your degree classification.
Your STRIVE assessment submitted as your RISE assessment can improve your overall grade.
At the end of each academic year, your Rise grade will be compared to your grade in other units of the same size, and if your Rise grade is higher it can be used to replace one of these marks. In this way, instead of earning 120 credits in an academic year you will earn 150, and your best 120 credits will be used to calculate your classification for the year. Note that you still need to engage with all course units as Rise is an over-credit rather than a replacement unit. Note also that all of your units will be included on your academic transcript, even those that are not used in your degree classification calculation.
Guidance for the RISE assessment is here