Entering and Reviewing Grades (DRAFT)
Entering Grades
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.