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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 example if you add an Assignment activi...
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 MAC OS X AND WINDOWS MACHINES BELOW...
This article is for students who encounter issues when attempting to
validate their device or laptop for ExamLock exams
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/376/10/taking-quizzes-using-examlock].
If the steps below do ...
ExamLock is a quiz integrity application developed by the IST eClass
team. The tool can be installed on Mac and Windows computers and
limits students to a quiz interface while an exam is being completed
and will block them from using a number of other app...
You can 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 section on eClass.
To perform a Bear...
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. If your course requires extreme...
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; or (2) through the Gradebook Gra...
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 grades are also THE REQUIRED OUT...
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 makes better sense to have answer box...
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 them to students.
Once uploaded, ...
Although most question types will be graded automatically, some work
may need to be done to GRADE ESSAY QUESTIONS
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/112/0/quizzes---grading-quizzes]
or repair issue with questions and...
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.
This can be useful in cases where students need a bit lon...
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 Using ExamLock to Promote Quiz Int...
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. To create a rubric for use i...
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 ...
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 laptops.
THIS ARTICLE OVERVIEWS T...
If your students are having difficulty accessing their grades, it may
be one of the following issues:
THE GRADEBOOK IS HIDDEN FROM STUDENTS
If a student is unable to access ANY grades (ie. the Grades link is
unavailable to them), it is likely that t...
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 Using ExamLock to Promote Quiz Integ...
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 provided for acceptable but non-mat...
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 uses for this would be to
impor...
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 POORLY TO NUMERIC VALUES. This is...
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...
Instructors experiencing issues while attempting to upload CSV files
into the eClass gradebook can try the following troubleshooting steps:
CONTENTS:
* 1 User Mapping Error
* 2 Writing to Database Error
ERROR MESSAGE: 'USER MAPPING ERROR, COULD NO...
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 import one column as the
'Comments' ...
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.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/37...
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 also contact eClass support at
780...
Instructors 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.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Formatting Grade Display for the E...
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 ...
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 that if a grade item automatically c...
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.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/37...
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'...
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 column (such as a category or cours...
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 also be unable to view files you ...
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 40%, creating a category for the...
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 an Activity - for example when y...
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 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...
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...
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 problem affects the GRADEBOOK S...
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.
*
The default display is FULL VIEW, ...
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 imported grades to Student ID numbers if...
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 for the participants page, list ...
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 bas...
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...
By default, eClass has some grading 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 ‘Quarter points (10 tota...
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.
CONTENTS:
* 1 To access the User ...
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 (with extra credits)_. These three...
If an eClass assignment has been set up to receive file
submissions, instructors can either grade files online using the
inline marking tools
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/35/15/grading-student-assignments] or
d...
_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
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/393/15/whole-forum-grading]
for more in...
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 grading of assignments:
* Turn on ...
This article describes how to make edits to existing manual grade
items, specifically the required option to specify whether to rescale
existing grades when editing the maximum grade for an item after
grades for students have already been entered.
This ...
Anonymous submissions, or blind marking, allow 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_., hav...
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 problem affects graded activiti...
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 shifting assessment online. Pleas...
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 individual assessment items) into CR or N...
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 course closure as some students ...
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...
In addition to shuffling question and multiple choice
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/360/45/security-features-for-delivering-eclass-quizzes]
orders as an academic integrity mechanism, instructors
can distribute m...
In the eClass gradebook, as an alternative to using the built-in
mechanisms to calculate a course total
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/0/calculating-your-course-total],
instructors can use formulas to compute...
An instructor may need to adjust scores globally on a quiz by adding
or subtracting points or scaling the scores without having to enter
mass gradebook overrides to student scores.
eClass can do this by any combination of adjusting the 'OFFSET' and/or
'M...