Scoring Assessments

1.

When an assessment has been released, you can see if any results have been submitted on the Assessments page of Tests & Quizzes. Down the page past Create an Assessment and past the tests that haven't been released, is a list of those assessments which have been published. If there is a Scores link under the title of the test, then students have submitted this exam.

 

2.

To grade assessments, click on Scores under the title of the test you want to grade. There are four links at the top of the page.

The first link is Submission Status . Here you can view the date each student's test was submitted.

3. The next link is Total Scores . In this area, students are listed along with the objective point total automatically graded by ETUDES. If some of your questions were not objective, then you'll need to grade those questions yourself. See the area below for instructions.

 

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The next link at the top is Questions . Here you can see each question and how each student answered that question.

Notice in my example that students are listed by number, not name. That's because the choice was made to have anonymous grading. That is set up in Settings when creating a template.

 

5. The last link in the Scores area is Statistics. Here you can see how the class did as a whole, plus how the entire class did for each question.

 

Grading Non-Objective Questions

1.

If your test includes non-objective type questions, such as short answer or essay, you will need to grade those questions yourself. To do so, click on Scores under the title of the test in the Published Assessments area of the Assessment page.

 

2.

On the Total Scores tab, you will see the list of submitted exams. Remember that if you chose anonymous grading, your students will be identified by number, not name. Their objective total will already be listed here, plus a box where you can add more points and a feedback area.

 

3.

To finish grading a quiz, click on the name or number (it's in blue) to open one student's test. You will see a list of the questions along with their answers. Find the essay/short answer questions and grade them by putting a point total for that question in the area above the question.

You can also alter the point totals for automatically graded questions here.

 

4.

Scroll down the page to the Update button at the bottom of the page to have the point totals updated.

Then click on the Total Scores link at the top of the page to return to the list of all students. You'll see that the point totals are automatically adjusted.

 

5.

From the Total Scores page, notice that you can quickly add comments to each student's submission. This is a great feature if, for example, you've given an entirely objective quiz, you don't even need to open up their submission to give them feedback on how they did: Great job! or Study Harder Next Time . . . quick, easy, and personalizes it so students feel good about the individual interest you are taking in them.

 

 

 3/8/06