Submission and sign-off

When a group is done, Dwixel turns the messy end of a project into a defined event. Members sign off, choose what to hand in, and the submitted work is frozen into a record that cannot quietly change afterwards.

Sign-off, then submit

Each member signs off that the work is final. The group can submit once the leader does so, or once everyone has signed, and students choose which documents and decks to hand in for the deliverable. The point is shared accountability for the thing being handed in, on the record.

Frozen evidence

At submission, the chosen artifacts are captured into a locked, timestamped snapshot, along with the contribution picture at that moment, and the submitted work is locked from further edits. This is what makes a later grade defensible. Process fairness matters more to students than the mark itself. The authors of the peer assessment fairness instrument rank it first, ahead of how members treated each other, with whether the mark matched the work last of the three. Their own line puts the consequence plainly: a student may get the best mark in the group and still feel the process was unfair. ¹ A frozen, signed, timestamped record is exactly that kind of procedural guarantee: it lets you show what was submitted and by whom, rather than reconstructing it from memory.

Faculty stay in control

A coordinator can close a project, or reopen it if a group needs to make a change, and grading works against the frozen contribution totals so the mark does not drift as edits happen elsewhere. Published guidance for academics treats the ability to generate a fair, individualised mark as the thing that makes group work usable as an assessment at all, and names its perceived difficulty as one of the commonest reasons staff avoid it. ² The review of the literature puts the principle more plainly still: it is individuals who graduate and gain qualifications, so the marking should fit each one. ³ The submission record is the foundation that makes individualised, defensible marking practical.