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In eClass, there are two ways in which an Instructor or TA can assign
grades and feedback to a student’s assignment submission:
* through the Assignment itself via the 'View all submissions' table
or online 'Grade' area or
* through the gradebook 'Gr...
For students who require special conditions for taking a quiz or
submitting an assignment, instructors can create a user or group
override that changes the settings only for those particular users.
Overrides can be useful in cases where students need a b...
When grading assignments in eClass, there are a number of mechanisms
for releasing the grades to students. By default, as soon as any
grades or feedback are entered by instructors or TAs, these are made
available to students. NOTE: this occurs regardless ...
Rubrics are advanced grading forms used for criteria-based assessment
and are most commonly used within the assignment activity. Rubrics
allow for ease and consistency in grading and allow for grade
transparency with students.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Adding a ...
The assignment tool has a wide range of configuration options that
make it a powerful tool for assessing students. It can be especially
useful in large course sections where there are several options
available to streamline working with a high number of s...
If you wish to have your students submit their work in groups, the
relevant settings are available in the GROUP SUBMISSION SETTINGS area
(and not in the COMMON MODULE SETTINGS area where most group and
groupings setup is done in eClass).
* If you want ...
Ratings can be useful for instructors who wish to track or grade forum
posts, glossary entries, and database entries and link them directly
to the course gradebook. They can also be used as a collaborative
activity by allowing students to rate each other'...
Once a grade has been edited/overridden in the Grader report, eClass
prevents instructors from changing grades from within the related
activity.
If you have entered a grade override for an assignment via the grader
report (as opposed to providing grades ...
Marking guides are one of the advanced grading methods available in
the eClass assignment activity. Similar to rubrics, they allow you to
set up a number of marking criteria for the assignment. But instead of
selecting from fixed scoring levels on each cr...
Instructors can grade students on the entirety of their posts in a
forum by setting up whole forum grading in the forum. When activated,
whole forum grading allows for an instructor to view students' history
of posts on a forum, and mark it via a numerica...
There are multiple methods that allow an instructor to grade forum
posts.
One option is whole forum grading, where instructors can see all of
their course participant's posts within a forum and give it a grade
that is reflected in the gradebook, be it ba...
Instructors can annotate student submissions directly online without
needing to download them. This grading mechanism can be used in
conjunction with any or all of the other options for providing
feedback on assignments. This tool supports common submissi...
If you have downloaded all the student submissions from an assignment
using the bulk download procedure
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/259/15/downloading-assignment-submissions],
after you have graded the documen...
If an eClass assignment has been set up to receive file submissions,
instructors can either grade files online (using either the inline
marking tools, the assignments grading table)
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View...
Anonymous submissions, or blind marking, allow instructors to mark
assignments without knowing which student they are marking. Anonymous
submissions are a practical way to ensure that personal biases have a
minimal impact on students' grades.
IN ORDER FO...
Instructors and course coordinators who enable the 'Marking workflow'
for opens up the option to assign specific grading tasks to any of the
other the graders in the course (including themselves).
CONTENTS:
* 1 Assigning Markers to grade assignment...
This article describes how instructors can add H5P activities which
push their scores directly into the gradebook in their courses.
H5P is an interactive HTML5 package that instructors may have
previously created and/or hosted on h5p.org
[https://h5p.org/...
In large courses where multiple TAs mark a single assignment, it can
be useful to see a per-grader average to compare how different graders
have graded students. This article will walk through setting up a
course to view per-grader averages and suggest a ...
This article will explain how to re-use an existing rubric that you
have already created in one eClass assignment for grading a different
assignment.
First, we will need to create a template from an already existing
rubric. If you do not have a rubric, p...