Entering and Reviewing Grades (DRAFT)
| Site: | College of the Rockies - Online |
| Course: | COTROnline Faculty Help Manual |
| Book: | Entering and Reviewing Grades (DRAFT) |
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| Date: | Thursday, 7 November 2024, 5:46 AM |
Grading Methods Overview
This book introduces the various types of Grading Processes available in Moodle including ways of viewing and editing grades after grading is completed.
1. Selecting Grade Scales for non-percentage or non-letter grade evaluation
2. Entering Grades - Grading is different depending on which Assessment Type you are grading. This section breaks down your grade-entry by type.
3. Editing Grades - There are several view-modes for reviewing and updating grades directly in the Gradebook.
Grade Scales
Your grades can be entered as scores, letters, or using scales which provide textual responses.
Scores and Letters are standardized to the COTROnline grading scale from 0 to 100% and F to A+. Grading Scales allow you to provide non-percentage or letter grades to students.
Please note: Scales adopt background lettering practices based on a range of low-high. For example, in a Pass/Fail scale. Fail = F(0) and Pass = A+(100).
There are several site-wide grading scales available to instructors for use. For most scale titles except a couple, a backslash (/) means an either/or choice; and a dash (-) means a distributed range choice.
If you need a particular scale developed for your course, please contact COTROnline with your request: cotronline@cotr.bc.ca
| Name displays in your scale options list |
Scale the range of options appearing in the grade interface (must be entered from lowest-highest, separated by commas) |
|---|---|
| Not Satisfactory / Satisfactory | Not satisfactory, Satisfactory |
| Yes/No (2 point) | No, Yes |
| Incomplete - Corrections Required - Complete | Incomplete, Corrections Required, Complete |
| Not Satisfactory - Satisfactory - Outstanding | Not satisfactory, Satisfactory, Outstanding |
| Returned Feedback / Awaiting Feedback | awaiting feedback, returned |
| Like! | Like!, Like! |
| RACE | Resubmit, Corrected, Acceptable, Excellent |
| Complete / No Credit Granted | No Credit Granted, Completed to Standard |
| Fail / Pass | Fail, Pass |
| Received / Not Received | Not Received, Received |
| Fail / Complete | Fail, Complete |
| Not Satisfactory - Needs Improvement - Satisfactory | Not Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Satisfactory |
| BSN | Unsatisfactory, Satisfactory Developing, Satisfactory Accomplished, Satisfactory Exemplary |
| Submitted / Not Submitted | Not Submitted, Submitted |
| Progressive Skill Development | Beginning, Developing, Proficient, Extending |
| Practicum | Action plan submitted, Submit action plan, Expired - resubmit, Missing signature - resubmit, Incomplete Form- resubmit, Incorrect Form - resubmit, Incorrect label - resubmit, Complete, Not Received, Received |
| ICE | Ideas, Connections, Extensions |
Entering Grades
The following sub-sections explore the main entry-points for standard grading. The vast majority of Grading occurs within the Activity itself and is automatically transferred to the Gradebook upon release of grades.
There are four main formats of grading covered here:
- Assignment Grading
- Quiz Grading
- Forum Grading
- Lesson Grading
- Direct Grading
Assignment Submission
The Basic Grading for submitted Assignments is fairly straightforward.
You can also build your own Marking Guides, use a variety of Rubric types, and apply grading workflow to assist in your grading and feedback for submitted assignments.
When you open the tab "View All Submissions" you will see a list which contains details on what has been submitted, and what has been graded or needs grading.
You can also see the type of submission.
In the image above, Tweetie Bird submitted a PDF file attachment while Sylvestre Cat submitted via text-entry.
A PDF submission appears directly in the grading window:
A text-only submission can be viewed directly for grading.
Marking guides provide advice to students on achieving specific elements of the grade as well as advice to graders on what to watch for and how to scale grade elements.
A marking guide can be a single grade-entry or it can be mapped out similarly to a rubric. The example below shows a rubric-style Marking Guide.
The rubric allows for more specific ranges per grading criteria - while also providing space for extra comments. It auto-calculates the grade based upon the selected grade area.
Marking Workflow allows you to create stages in your grading so that you can review your grades before releasing to students.
You can turn Marking Workflow on and off in the Assignment settings under "Grade" and "Marking Workflow":
Marking Workflow will allow graders to set various submissions to stages of grading for sorting and review. Students will be able to see stage updates though they will not see their evaluation or grade until the "released" stage is active. For example, The image below displays one item at the stage of "in marking" and one item at the stage of "marking completed."
It allows the following five grading stages. Stages 1, 2 and 5 are in bold because they are the most commonly used. You can skip stages.
- In marking - Assessments are being reviewed and graded
- Marking completed - A grade is assigned
- In review - Particularly where assistants are helping with grades, this stage might apply for when the lead instructor is approving grades
- Ready for release - Approved grades
- Released - Final submission to the gradebook, grades and feedback are made visible to students.
To bulk-apply a stage to grade items:
- View all submissions
- Select the submissions to apply the new grading workflow status
- Scroll to bottom of the page and from "With selected..." select "Set marking workflow state"
- Select the workflow stage required and Save Changes.
Note: If you are setting the stage to "Released", be sure to switch Notify Student to "Yes" so they receive notification their grade has been released.
Quizzes - Automatic and Manual Grading
The Quiz is built around auto-grading and there are many settings for building in both auto-grading and auto-feedback in the Moodle Quiz activity. Find out more in our Quiz section.
Some question types, such as essay or short answer, must be graded manually.
Forums - Scores versus Grades
Forums have an alternate grading mode called "score" which approaches grading a little differently.
Lessons - Auto and Manual Grading
Lessons are generally built to force completion of a task, rather than assigning an actual grade, but there are also graded elements available.
Viewing and Editing Grades
There are many ways to view and edit your grades once you have completed a process of grading. You can also use these modes to enter grades directly where there isn't a quiz, or assignment submission for you to grade.
Direct Grade Entry
When you have an offline assessment - whether that be in-class presentations or participation or perhaps a physical submission like a poster or sculpture - you can skip the creation of an assessment dropbox by creating a direct grading item.
Then you can use the Single View to enter grades and give brief feedback.
1. Grader Report
This is the large-scale overview of all students and all grades. You can minimize the amount of content by navigating to the User report > Setup and selecting to hide certain components of the display.
You can edit and update any grade from this view.
2. Single View
This view allows you to drill down into a single grade item across all users (Grade Items) or all grade items for a single user (Users).
From either of these views you can enter and adjust or override existing grades on all grade items.
-> Select "Grade Items" then select the specific grade item from the dropdown:
Turn your Editing On, and then enter the grades and feedback for each student. When you are ready - select "Save".
