Grading Assignments

Three Options to Start Grading

1. Want to see how many tests are ready to grade in all your courses? You have access to all your courses' grading tasks on the global Grades page. All your grading tasks are organized by course. No need to navigate to each course to see what is ready for grading.

2. Want to narrow your focus? In a course, you can access the course grade book on the navigation bar. You can see who has made submissions and start grading.

3. From the activity stream, you are alerted when student submissions are ready for grading. Select the link to go to the grade book. Or select a test on the Course Content page to see how many students have made submissions.

 

Start Grading from an Assignment

View the rubric. If you associated a rubric with the assignment, you can review it.

Select the Submissions link to begin grading. On the Submissions page, select student names to access their individual submissions and the rubric.  More on grading with rubrics

Keep up with the conversation. If you are allowed conversations about this assignment, select the Open class conversation icon. Students can discuss the assignment with you and their classmates. As the conversation develops, it appears only with the relevant assignment.

A purple circle appears with the icon to indicate new activity.  More on conversations

Check how many need grading. Select the Submissions link to see how many students have completed the assignment.

Refine questions. If you included questions, you may need to make corrections after students have opened an assignment or group assignment. For example, you may have chosen the wrong answer, found a typo, or want to adjust points or scoring options. You can make a change for all students to see and automatically update all grades.  More on editing questions

Assignments Submissions Page

1. You can search for a student or a group and select how many items to display on the page.

2. Use the Filter menu to display only those submissions that need grading. At this time, you can filter by

   1. All statuses and

   2. Needs grading.

The Filter menu does not appear for group and discussion items.

3. Keep track of all submissions on one page. Quickly see which attempts are ready to grade. Student profile pictures appear with a red circle when they have late submissions or the due date has passed with no attempt submitted.

4. Access the details. Review the instructions and settings at any time by selecting the Content and Settings link to return to the assignment page.

5. View students with accommodations. In the roster, icons appear next to the names of students with accommodations.    More on accommodations

6. Download submissions. To accelerate your grading process, you can download students' assessment submissions and view them offline. You can download all or only selected submissions as a single ZIP file.  More on downloading submissions

   

7. Start grading

1. Select student names to access their individual submissions, and
2. assign grades and provide feedback.
3. Type a numeric value of no more than five digits.  More on grade pills
   

4. You can also assign grades directly on this page. These grades are override grades. An override label appears next to the grade. After you assign a value, click anywhere outside the grade area to save it.  More on override grades

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8. Ready to post grades? The post appears next to each grade you haven't released yet. You can choose which grades to post and when. Posted grades appear with a Posted message in the column. You can also grade all submissions for an item in succession and then select Post all grades to release all grades in one action.

If you chose not to show correct answers for automatically scored questions, return to the assessment settings panel and select the Show correct answers check box.  More on showing correct answers

9. Assessment exceptions. Access the menu next to the grade pill from a student's submission page to add an exception for the assignment. An exception includes additional attempts or extended access, even if the assignment is hidden from other students. You can also add exceptions after you post grades.  More on assessment exceptions

View Submissions Timestamp

You can view when the student made the submission and when you posted the grade. The timestamp appears in red with a "late" label after the due date passes.

On the Submissions list page, select a student's name to open the attempts panel for multiple attempts. Point to a timestamp to view the additional information.

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