After grading the first effort, if it is not good enough, say at the end, "please submit rewrite by mm/dd/year" and check the allow resubmission button. This way the assignment will reopen for the student. You can have the assignment submissions set to accept attachments so that students can attach a rewrite WITHOUT affecting the original. You should also ask them to add "rev1" in the filename. You can repeat the process and ask them to submit a third by allowing resubmission again.
If you allow resubmissions for an assignment that allowed attachments, when students to go to resubmit, they get a button "Add/Drop Attachments." They can add new attachments AND remove previous ones. In a way, it is good to let students clean up junk and leave just good files for instructors to review and grade.
Remember that if you don't allow students to resubmit, they can't alter or remove already submitted assignments. However, when you allow a student to resubmit, he/she can make adjustments, as that's the whole idea. If you want the original submissions to stay intact, you don't allow resubmissions. Instead, create a brand new assignment and call it "Rewrite - Essay #1.
You can't delete a submission, but you can allow resubmit.
Go to the Assignment >> click on Grade >> Click on the student's name who you want to resubmit >> Scroll down and check "Allow Resubmission."
No, this does not apply to Tests & Quizzes at this time. You have to set the test to allow more than one submission prior to publishing it! I would suggest that you set it to allow at least 2 submissions. Things happen, so it's safe.
Yes. Once the final date/time arrives, the submission window closes. This is why we have allowed a couple of grace period days for each assignment in the training workshop.
No, there is no special permissions button in any of the tools. This system allows for a "grace" period, just like with your credit cards. You can make it as short or long as you want. Once the late period is over (same for everyone), it's over. You can extend it further, but for everyone.
You CAN extend the due dates for a quiz, but set a second-level username and password (option available in the Tests & Quizzes tool under security) for the quiz, and give the access codes just to that student. Everybody else will see the open quiz, but when they try to take it, they will be prompted for the access codes.
After submitting the assignment as a student, you should see links at the top, where you clicked to get to the student view. You should see a link at the top for "Assignment List". Click this link to get back to the instructor view.
Assuming that you are in your practice site:
Click on Assignment List > In/New > then Release Grades will be in the upper center portion of the frame.
You will see an In/New option in your practice site - not in ours where you are a student. And, it may be that the In/New does not show until there are submissions turned in. I am pretty sure it's there with 0/0. It works when you click on the numbers "1/0" UNDER "In/New"
My sense is that all y'all are jumpin' around a bit. Here's the drill:
It sounds like some of your students may not have their cache set properly. Please direct them to the Gateway to set their system properly or they'll continue to have problems.
Yes, you can open two browser windows and log onto both if you are on a PC using IE. Just be careful to not use the File > New on your browser. Click on the IE icon to get a brand new, fresh browser. This will eliminate session overwriting/cache issues. This allows you to have assignments in one and the gradebook in another, for example.
If you have 'returned' grades, yes. To release grades, you can click on "Return" after grading each submission. Students will see their grades next time they return to the Assignments. Or, you can grade all the assignments and click on "save as draft" and when done grading all of them, you click on "Release grades." Then, students see their grades/points/comments but not before the release.
Under grading options, I see a check box for showing assignments scores AND calculated grades. It is not an either or option at this time. So the answer for now is No.
RETURN does not mean resubmit. RETURN means that you are done grading (comments and score) and and are returning the assignment to the student. Same as returning homework back to students in the traditional classroom.
The only way to allow students to resubmit is by checking the "allow resubmit" box. Then, click on RETURN it to the student with the option to resubmit. You see "returned" and they see "resubmit." When they resubmit, you adjust the grade/points based on the value of the resubmission.
SAVE does simply that. It saves your comments and points so that you can take a break, take the dog for a walk, and come back later to review them and RETURN to students. For example, you could grade all your assignments and click on SAVE on each. And, when done, click on release grades so that all of them are now viewable to students at once.
It's a matter of preference or teaching style. I like to RETURN things as I grade them, just like I like to handle email quickly and get answers out to people. Students are anxious to get feedback. But it is entirely up to you.
You CAN change the maximum number of points possible after the fact. You will get a warning message that you are altering the assignment when some students have submitted work, but it will let you make changes. It wants you to be aware of your actions.
So revise the assignment and make it worth 400 points. Save it. When you click on "revise" and change the assignment's maximum points to 400, the effect will be available to you immediately for all submissions not yet scored and any new ones that will come in. The ones already submitted and given only 300 or other points will need to be opened and manually adjusted by you and RETURNED to students.
Cache. They don't have their cache set to "every visit to the page" and thus are seeing old sessions. Direct them to the Gateway for information on how to set their browsers' cache. They MUST delete all temp files first!
How timely. Folks from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, just reported this problem this morning and the cause of the problem. They have confirmed that users logging in with a differently-cased version (e.g. upper case) of a lower-case ID results in:
They have passed it onto UMich to look into a fix for this. For now, please tell your students to log in using lower case in their userid's. Thanks.
There are several reasons why someone might lose connectivity. One possibility, even with broadband connections and especially with DSL, is that the ISP may have dropped the connection for a moment or two and immediately reconnected. Or, locally, Windows XP, wireless in particular, will habitually drop and reconnect. Hard wired connections into T1 lines are of course much more stable...while dial-up connections are like so much spidery filament. Heck, even the most stable hardwired-into-the-T1 connection can fall victim to power outages. So, if anyone is doing something they would feel bad about losing, take the necessary precautions!
Students should write up their submissions in a text editor/word processor. Then copy and paste into the submission box. They should save the original document on their computer in case something happens. This also allows them to use the Spell Check feature of their text editor.
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