When the permission is enabled on an assignment, you can choose to share an asset with an external assessor to receive feedback or verification on your work.

Who is an external assessor?

An external assessor is someone who works with learners as a non-staff member at your institution to provide coaching, feedback or verification. They have a PebblePad account with limited functionality.

You share with an external assessor when you require work to be assessed by a non-staff member, and importantly, access to your asset has not already been provided by your course managers.

Sharing with an external assessor may be needed: 

• when checking and verifying your work happens sometime after the event,
• where you are not located together, but instead working at distance.

An external assessor will not have general access to your account, but they will be able to:

• view the asset(s) you share,
• view any assets attached as evidence to the main shared asset.

Sharing with an external assessor is used to:

• provide feedback,
• complete assessor fields.

If an external only needs to view or comment, see share with people.

Who can I share with?

Where enabled for an assignment, one of these options will be available:

1. Share with existing external account
   The external assessor will already have a PebblePad account, created by a workspace manager.
   
   
2. Share with anyone - create a new external user
   The external assessor does not have a PebblePad account. You can create it for them.

A workspace manager controls the options available for an assignment.

Share with external

To share with an external assessor, the asset must be shared with ATLAS before continuing.

To share:

1. From the Asset Store, tick the asset to share.
2. From I want to... menu, choose Share.
   
   
   
   
3. Choose With an external assessor from the list.
   
   
   
   
4. Type in full and accurately the person's email address into the field.
5. Click the Search icon.
6. If the account exists, its details will be added below.
   
   
   
7. (Optional) Set an expiry date for access to end.
8. Click the Share asset button.

View a share

You can see the details of each time you have shared an asset with an external.

To view:

1. From the Asset Store, scroll to the asset.
2. Click the Shared with ATLAS icon.
   
   
   
   
3. In the sidebar, scroll to Workspaces shared to section.
4. Click to reveal the Show external assessors.
   
   

Remove a share

An asset shared with an external assessor can be removed at any time. 

To remove:

1. From the Asset Store, scroll to the asset
2. Click the Shared with ATLAS icon
3. In the sidebar, scroll to Workspaces shared to section
4. Click to reveal the Show external assessors
5. Against the external assessor's name, click Delete.
   
   

Removing the share does not delete an external assessor's account, only their ability to view your asset.