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Article Last Updated June 2021
The Grades tool in eClass (or _Gradebook)_ allows you to manage and
organize a collection of grades in eClass. Items that have been
assessed using an eClass activity will be automatically added to the
gradebook (for examp...
Article Last Updated October 2021
ExamLock is a University of Alberta application that instructors may
use to promote academic integrity during eClass exams. The tool is
available in IST managed computer labs and IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
ONTO STUDENT'S ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
You can now use eClass to prepare a spreadsheet that can be imported
directly into Bear Tracks as a part of the new electronic grade
submission process. To use this capability, you must be the instructor
or TA of a credit ...
Article Last Updated Decmber 2021
This article is for students who encounter issues when attempting to
validate their device or laptop for ExamLock exams
[http://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/376/10/taking-quizzes-using...
Article Last Updated October 2021
ExamLock is a quiz integrity application developed by the IST eClass
team. The tool can be installed on mac and windows machines and limits
students to a quiz interface while an exam is being completed and will
block the...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you choose to set or display letter grades in eClass, it is
important to review the default grade boundaries to ensure that the
system assigns the appropriate letter grade for each range of marks
that you assign. Letter...
Article Last Updated June 2021
eClass has several options for calculating the course total for your
students. These options are specified through your gradebook
AGGREGATION METHOD and allow you to give items different weights in
the overall course total...
Article Last Updated June 2021
In eClass, there are two ways in which an Instructor or TA can assign
grades and feedback to a student's assignment submission: (1) through
the Assignment itself via the 'View all submissions' table or online
'Grade' area;...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Embedded Answers (Cloze) is a way of designing multiple choice, short
answers and numerical answers within a passage of text. They are
useful when you want to have a single question have multiple sub-parts
and when it make...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If your students have completed an offline activity (such as a midterm
or final examination) and their grades have been published or recorded
in a spreadsheet, it is possible to import these grades into eClass to
publish t...
Article Last Updated June 2021
After your students have completed a quiz, if you find that it
contained an unfair question (ie. the answer was coded wrong, the
question was too ambiguous, etc.) you can either:
*
Change the grade for the question to...
Article Last Updated Decmber 2021
If you have users in your course that require special conditions for
taking a quiz or submitting an assignment, you can create a user or
group override that changes the settings only for those particular
users. This can...
Article Last Updated June 2021
This article outlines how instructors can use the ExamLock Manager to
manage secure exam sessions and review student activity during
quizzes. Instructors should configure their quizzes first following
the instructions at Us...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Rubrics are advanced grading forms used for criteria-based assessment.
Many eClass instructors prefer to use rubrics as they allow for ease
and consistency in grading, and allow for grade transparency with
students. To cre...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If your students are having difficulty accessing their grades, one of
the following is likely causing the issue:
THE GRADEBOOK IS CURRENTLY HIDDEN FROM STUDENTS
If a student is unable to access ANY grades (ie. the Grade...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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 studen...
Article Last Updated June 2021
The eClass Gradebook does not directly allow the import of textual
information into standard gradebook columns. This article describes
the workaround of importing the text into the _Feedback_ location for
a column. Common u...
Article Last Updated June 2021
ExamLock is a University of Alberta application that instructors may
use to promote academic integrity during eClass exams. The tool is
available in IST managed computer labs but may also be used by
students on their own la...
Article Last Updated June 2021
You are able to assign letter grades to specific assignments or
activities in eClass using the Improved Letter Grade Scale. YOU SHOULD
ALWAYS USE THIS SCALE INSTEAD OF THE STANDARD 'LETTER SCALE' SINCE
THAT ONE TRANSLATES ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
This article outlines how instructors can use the ExamLock Manager to
schedule secure exam sessions for students to complete quizzes.
Instructors will need to configure their quizzes first following the
instructions at Usin...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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 streamlin...
Article Last Updated July 2019
UPDATE JULY 2019: RESPONDUS LOCKDOWN BROWSER IS NO LONGER CENTRALLY
SUPPORTED AT THE U OF A.
Please see this article for instructions on using ExamLock to promote
quiz integrity
[https://support.ctl.ualberta.ca/index.php...
Article Last Updated June 2021
The TSQS optical scoring data provided by IST may include a number of
columns in addition to the raw score including the students' wrong
answers and their actual responses.
eClass Moodle will only allow instructors to im...
Article Last Updated June 2021
All quiz question types (except for 'Essay') are graded automatically
by eClass after the student has submitted their quiz attempt. It is a
recommended practice to review short answer questions in case credit
should be pro...
Article Last Updated July 2019
UPDATE JULY 2019: RESPONDUS LOCKDOWN BROWSER IS NO LONGER CENTRALLY
SUPPORTED AT THE U OF A.
Please see this article for instructions on using ExamLock to promote
quiz integrity
[https://support.ctl.ualberta.ca/index.php...
Article Last Updated June 2021
You have several options for formatting the display of grades to
students in eClass. These can be set at either the course level (ie.
for all grades in the course) or on individual grade items.
SETTING THE GRADE DISPLAY ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you have already entered a grade for an assignment via the grader
report (as opposed to providing grades through the assignment grading
tools), you may have problems attaching files to the assignment. Your
students may ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you run into issues while attempting to upload csv files into the
eClass gradebook, try the following troubleshooting steps:
Error message: 'user mapping error, could not find user...'
* These errors are usually c...
Article Last Updated July 2021
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 allo...
Article Last Updated June 2021
The Grades tool in eClass offers options to format the display of your
gradebook to students and to control to a very fine degree which
grades are visible to students. ONE THING TO NOTE when working in the
gradebook is tha...
Article Last Updated June 2021
The eClass Grader Report indicates that cells have been overridden by
changing the background colour of the cell to orange. This is
perfectly normal and occurs whenever users edit an activity module
column or calculated co...
Article Last Updated June 2021
There are a number of ways to use only letter grades in eClass
courses. This article will recommend best practices and provide
examples for some specific use cases. Because letter grading is a
complicated area, users can a...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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 d...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Gradebook categories are useful for organizing and grouping multiple
course assessment items by type. For example, if the course contains a
midterm worth 30%, three lab assignments worth 30% overall and a final
exam worth ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Whenever you add a Quiz or Assignment Activity to your course and
specify a grade in its settings, a grade column will appear in the
gradebook. This article will explain how to manually add a grade item
that is not tied to...
Article Last Updated June 2021
eClass by default has some scales already available for use in student
grading. These include the standard numeric scales (can be out of any
number of points, up to 100, with 1 point intervals), and several
others such as ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
A known bug can sometimes cause problems identifying which grades have
been released to students. This issue is in active development by the
moodle community and we will be looking to release a fix as soon as
possible.
The...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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. However
instead of selecting...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you have set up groups in your course, you might want to enable the
option to filter different course administration pages by those
groups. The most common use case for doing this is in the gradebook
but this also works...
Article Last Updated June 2021
By default the Grader Report in eClass identifies students by first
and last name, email address, and CCID - student 7-digit student ID
numbers are not displayed. Even though they don't display, you can
still match importe...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Since the summer of 2017, 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 ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If you have downloaded all the student submissions from an assignment
(by way of the _bulk download procedure_ at the top of this article
[http://support.ctl.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/259/15/downloa...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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 refl...
Article Last Updated June 2021
In the gradebook, there is an option to toggle the display by clicking
on the box icon beside the course name. Clicking on the icon will
allow you to change the format to Full view, Aggregates only, or
Grades only.
*
...
Article Last Updated December 2021
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 o...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Some aggregation methods in the eClass gradebook allow instructors to
give bonus marks for certain grade items. The aggregation methods that
allow this are _Simple weighted mean of grades_, _Natural_, and _Mean
of grades (...
Article Last Updated June 2021
There are a number of additional columns and settings which can be
used to modify what students see when they look at their grades. The
student view of the grade book can be viewed under USER REPORT in the
gradebook.
TO ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Note: With new options for grading posts on a forum, such as whole
forum grading to be added in the May 2020 eClass update (see this
article
[http://support.ctl.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/393/15/whole...
Article Last Updated June 2021
A known bug can sometimes cause problems identifying which grades have
been released to students. This issue is in active development by the
moodle community and we will be looking to release a fix as soon as
possible.
T...
Article Last Updated June 2021
This article describes how to make edits to existing manual grade
items, specifically the NEW REQUIRED OPTION TO SPECIFY WHETHER TO
RESCALE EXISTING GRADES INTRODUCED IN SUMMER 2017 when editing the
maximum grade for an it...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If your assignment is set to receive file submissions and you wish to
manage those submissions offline, you can export all the submitted
files with one click:
* First, ensure in your assignment settings under 'Submissio...
Article Last Updated June 2021 Once enabled, the 'Marking workflow'
opens up the option for course coordinators or lead instructors to
assign specific grading tasks to any of the other the graders in the
course (including themselves).
To split up gradin...
Article Last Updated June 2021
Blind marking allows instructors to mark assignments without knowing
which student they are marking. For this technique to work, you have
to instruct your students not to use their names on their assignment
documents (i.e....
Article Last Updated June 2021
An effective way of preventing students from accessing course material
during exams is disabling access to your course by changing the course
availability on eClass. You may want to preemptively notify your
students of the...
Article Last Updated June 2021
UPDATE: As a part of the University's shift to online course delivery
in response to Covid-19, these suggestions provide instructors with a
mechanism to provide and display Credit/No Credit scores to students
as a part of ...
Article Last Updated June 2021
UPDATE: As a part of the University's shift to online course delivery
in response to Covid-19, these suggestions provide instructors with a
mechanism to convert existing numeric scores (for an entire course or
for individu...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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
rubr...
Article Last Updated June 2021
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 p...
Article Last Updated June 2021
In addition to shuffling question and multiple choice
[http://support.ctl.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/360/45/security-features-for-delivering-eclass-quizzes]
orders as an academic integrity mechanism,...
Article Last Updated January 2022
In the eClass gradebook, as an alternative to using the built-in
mechanisms to calculate a course total
[http://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/0/calculating-your-course-total],
inst...
Article Last Updated June 2021
If an instructors needs to adjust scores on a quiz, i.e. by adding or
subtracting points or scaling the scores. this may be accomplished
without having to enter mass gradebook overrides to student scores.
NOTE: this is not...
Article Last Updated October 2021
Instructors can now use Assign2 to create PDF versions of eClass
quizzes suitable for printing. This method improves on the formatting
available using the basic browser printing options
[https://support.eclass.ualberta....
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