Grade Assignments

Grade an Inline Submission

1. Enter the Assignment area by clicking on Assignment in the left menu bar.
2. You can see if there are assignments turned in that need to be graded in the list under In/New. In tells you how many assignments have been submitted; New tells you how many have not yet been graded.
3. Click Grade under the assignment. You will see your assignment along with student submissions.
 
4.

To view a student's submitted inline assignment for grading, click the student's name. There are two boxes. The upper box contains the student submission. You can insert comments into student text by your comments in double curly brackets (i.e., {{your comment here}} ). Your comments will appear in red to the student (not you). Or, even easier, use the tools in the editor toolbar to color your text, make it bold, etc. . . . Basically you want it to stand out.

The lower box in a place for you to put in your comments. They will appear under the student work when the student views the graded assignment.

Be sure to put in the grade in the appropriate box just above return/save.

 
5.

Click on Return to complete the grading and return the assignment to students.

Click on Save to complete the grading but not return the assignment to students. You may want to do this if you want to return all student grades at the same time, rather than as they are graded.

6. If you choose to save the grade, you can release all the assignments back to students at once on the student submissions grading page. The Release Grades link is at the top of the page.
 

Grade Assignments Posted as Attachments

1.

You can download attached assignments one at a time, or if many of your students have submitted attachments, you might find it easier to download them all at once. If so, this is the procedure:

Follow steps 1-3 listed above.

2.

Instead of clicking on a student's name, click on the Download All link at the top of the page.

3. This will prompt a bulk download of all student assignments posted as attachments. The file will be in ZIP format so you'll need (and probably already have on your computer) a program that unzips these archived files. I generally save such things to my desktop (Save to Disk) for easy access.
 
4. The resulting folder will contain folders for each student who submitted an attachment. Inside each folder will be the document the student uploaded. There may also be a text document containing any text the student included in the inline box in the attachment area (this is not required). If that text document is missing, it just means that the student didn't type anything into the inline box.
 
5.

You can open each student submission to view it. If you want to make comments on the paper, that can be done, depending on the program the document is in . . . It's very easy to do in MS Word, it may be more difficult in some other files . . . it all depends and is not controlled by ETUDES-NG.

If you prefer, you can put your comments into the Instructor Comments on the Assignment grading page. Double-click on the name of the student to open up his assignment grading page and the make your comments and insert your grade here.

 
6. If you have made comments to the student's original attachment, you can return it as an attachment to the student if you wish. If you didn't make any marks here, there is probably no reason to return it because the student should have the original they used to send it to you.
7. Be sure to click Resubmit (if desired), and then Return or Save, as explained in the section above.

Quick Steps for Grading a Dummy Student Assignment You Do to Check the Assignment
(This is specifically for the Online Training Workshop folks.)

There seems to be a lot of confusion about grading an assignment you create and then do as a student. Here's the drill:

1. Create an Assignment and click "Post."
2. Click on the Student View>>Click on "Submit as student" under the name of the assignment you just created.
3. Complete the Assignment and Click "Submit."
4. Go back to the Assignment List by clicking it in the top menu bar.
5. Click on "Grade" under the name of the assignment.
6. Click on YOUR NAME to open the Assignment to grade it.
7. Grade the Assignment and Click "Return."
8. You will now be back at Submissions/Grading page (Step #6)

Reviewing Student Status for All Assignments

You can view a list of your students and see each one's status on each of the assignments. You can see whether the student has submitted the assignment, the assignment status, and the grade if one has been given.

  1. Enter the Assignment area by clicking on Assignment in the left menu bar.
  2. At the top of the page, click on Grade Report.
  3. Sort the list by student name, then scroll until you find the student you're looking for. All assignments that student has submitted will be listed and you can see how he/she did.

 

 

Click on Download Spreadsheet to get a spreadsheet of all student assignment grades. In the example below, you don't see actual point totals because all these assignments were graded as checkmarks, not points. Empty cells indicate assignments not graded. (Entire empty rows indicate faculty members who didn't do assignments.)

Assignment grades can be automatically entered into the gradebook. In order to do so, you must choose the grading option of Points when setting up the assignment. (The gradebook doesn't understand letter grades or checkmarks.)

5/25/06