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Controlling the release of grades

To control when students see the grades for their assignments there are three main options:

1. Hide the entire assignment during grading - this is accomplished by clicking Edit > Hide to the right of the assignment on the course main page. Using this method will prevent students from seeing the assignment entirely so it should not be used if late submissions are required.

2. Hiding the assignment from the gradebook - this is accomplished by entering the gradebook Grader report view and clicking Turn editing on near the top right, then clicking the eyeball icon in the column of the assignment in question. Using this method will allow still allow students to submit late but hides any grading information; the entire column is removed from the student's view of the gradebook.

3. Enabling the Marking Workflow in the assignment settings offers the most flexibility for graders. It allows you and other graders in a course to set a status on assignments as grading work is completed. This can be useful when multiple people are working in the same course and assessment needs to be standardized, reviewed, and/or there is a need to coordinate the release of grades to students.

Enable marking workflow

• The workflow is added under the 'Grade' area in assignment settings by setting Enable marking workflow to Yes.
  
  

Marking status

• Once enabled, the available grading statuses are 'Not marked', 'In marking', 'Marking completed', 'In review', 'Ready for release', and 'Released'. When the workflow is enabled, grades and feedback are hidden from students until the grading status on their assignment is set to 'Released'. All the other statuses are only for the information of graders. These statuses do appear on each student's 'Assignment submission' page (where it is visible as a separate status from the regular assignment submission status).
  
  
  
  
• The grading status can be set or changed by graders in a few ways:
  
  • In the 'Marking workflow state' dropdown in the grading area for individual assignments when adding grades and feedback to individual assignments (accessed from the 'View/grade all assignments' area of the assignment by clicking the pencil icon in the grade column or Edit > Grade in the Edit column):
    
    
    
    
  • In the assignment grading table ('View/grade all assignments') in the 'Status' column as a dropdown box below the submission status:
    
    

Bulk or mass release of grades

• The last method, and cleanest way to do a mass release of grades, is via a bulk operation on the assignment grading table (available through View/grade all submissions):
  • Select all or some of the rows in the table.
    
    
    
    
  • Scroll to the bottom and change the 'With selected...' dropdown to Set marking workflow state then click Go and Yes when asked to verify that you want to Set marking workflow state for all selected assignments?.
    
    
    
    
  • The page will now list the students selected (or the first few along with the line 'X more...') - select the desired 'Marking workflow state' from the dropdown and click Save changes.
    
    
    
    
  • You can also optionally choose to send a mass notification to students at this time that their assignments are graded by toggling 'Notify students' to Yes before saving changes.
    
    
    
    

Hide identity of graders

Instructors may hide the identity of graders from students. This would normally be used when courses want all student feedback about assignment scores to come from a single source that has already been announced.

Anonymous (Blind) Grading

If the marking workflow is being used in conjunction with Anonymous Grading (blind marking), student identities must be revealed before any grades will be visible to students.

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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 bit longer to complete a quiz if, for example, a student has a computer crash while completing a quiz and needs an extension to the quiz time limit to complete it fairly; or they require additional time to complete an assignment due to an illness. Overrides are also helpful for instructors who need to apply time accommodations for accessibility purposes during exams.

Group overrides can be useful if you have a multi-section course with different submission dates or times for each different cohort.

Note that for group overrides: You must already have groups created in the course to use the group override functionality.

Adding a user or group override allows you to keep the same quiz or assignment and add as many different overrides as required for particular students. All other students complete the quiz or assignment with the original quiz settings.

Note that if your entire class is affected, change the Timing or Availability by extending BOTH the duration and closing time or due date in the tool settings.

Create a user or group override for a quiz:

1. Enter your course and click on the quiz or assignment you would like to create an override for. Any existing overrides are alreay displayed on the quiz main page.
2. Then click on the More tab, then on Overrides. 
   
   
   
   
3. Select the override type you need, then click on Add user override or Add group override.
   
   
   
   
4. Select a user or group in your course:
   
   
5. Make changes to the quiz delivery settings as required.

• Important Note: when changing the quiz settings for a time accommodation override, instructors must ensure they match the timing setup settings for the main quiz.
• This means that if your main quiz timing has BOTH start/close times AND a time limit applied, any override that you add for a student must adjust both of those for each student.
• For example, if your quiz opens at 1:00 pm, closes at 2:00 pm, AND has a time limit of 60 minutes, if you give a student an override that only gives them a 90 minute time limit, the student's attempt will close at the original close time, regardless of the extended time limit. You must also extend the close time. 

Handling quiz attempts that are submitted prematurely:

Changing the closing time and time limit settings will not re-open attempts that have already been submitted, either by the student or automatically because the closing time was reached. This also applies for exam attempts submitted by ExamLock. In these cases, adding an override (as shown above) and changing the 'Attempts allowed' to 2 would start a brand new attempt (which may be a desired option).

But if a student requires more time to continue and complete their existing attempt 'Attempts allowed' must be set to 2 AND the setting in the quiz settings 'Each attempt builds on the last' must be set to Yes.

Changing this setting for the entire quiz will have no affect on other students because it will only take effect for the students given the second attempt through the override.

Click on the Settings tab in the quiz and scroll down to the 'Question behaviour' section.

Click 'Show more' to access the setting Each attempt builds on the last, and set it to Yes:

Create a user or group override for assignments:

Adding overrides to Assignments is the same except for the different settings options available:


Editing overrides:

• When you re-enter the 'Overrides' interface, any existing overrides will be listed on the Quiz page and on the overrides page.
• You can adjust the quiz or assignment delivery details for an override by clicking the gear icon to the right of the override.
• You can remove an override completely by clicking the trash icon to the right of the override.
• The "copy" icon can be used to copy an override to another user.
• If an error message similar to the following displays after inputting an override, it is likely indicating that a quiz availability setting has superseded the override rule(s), i.e., the quiz is hidden at the course level. This is a warning only and will not impact the override once the superseding condition is removed.

Other notes:

• The interface for entering Group overrides is the same as for User overrides: any changes specified to all members of that particular group (Groupings are NOT required to limit changes to a particular group).

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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 submissions. (For a basic walkthrough of the assignment settings, please see Adding Assignments.)

Advanced Assignment Settings

The different areas of advanced settings available for grading assignments are described below with links out to articles specifically covering those topics:

• Allowing Group Submissions

  - Enables students to submit a single assignment per group and provide grades and feedback to the entire group as a whole

• Downloading all assignment file submissions at once

  - Download a zipped folder of all student file submissions for offline grading

• Uploading Multiple Feedback Files at once

  - After working offline and entering comments into student file submissions, you can upload them in one batch

• Using the Marking workflow to release grades to students at the same time

  - Grading high volume assignments can be managed by adding a workflow option allowing for review, tracking, and timed release of grades

• Using Marker allocation to divide grading work among your instructors and TAs

  - With the grading workflow enabled, you can assign subsets of submissions to TAs and other instructors in your course for grading

 

Grading Assignments

Providing students with grades and feedback using the assignment activity is covered in the following series of articles:

• Grading Student Assignments

• Downloading Assignment Submissions

• Controlling Release of Grades to Students using the Assignment activity

• Grading Assignments based on a Custom Rubric

  - Assignment grades can be given out by selecting specific levels on a series of criteria from a rubric designed by the instructor

• Grading Assignments based on a Custom marking guide

  - Similar to the rubric, assignment grades are given out by entering scores on pre-selected criteria with the added option of re-using commonly used comments

• Grading PDF Assignment Submissions

• Grading Forum Posts within the Assignment Activity

  - Enable students to pull all their posts/replies from a forum into the assignment as their submission

• Uploading Multiple Assignment Feedback Files at Once

• Splitting up Grading of Assignments in Large Sections

• Problems Grading Assignments

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Ratings for each individual student can be tallied (aggregated) in several ways:

• Average of ratings - The mean of all ratings.
• Count of ratings - The number of rated items becomes the final grade. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity.
• Maximum rating - The highest rating becomes the final grade.
• Minimum rating - The lowest rating becomes the final grade.
• Sum of ratings - All ratings are added together. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity.

The aggregation method will determine how students are scored (rated) on individual student posts, replies or entries. For example, you might select 'Maximum rating' if you wanted students to achieve a minimum standard and if they had a number of posts, replies or entries to try and achieve that standard. You could score (rate) them multiple times but they would only receive the highest score given.

Setting up Ratings:

1. In the 'Ratings' section of your activity's settings page, choose the required aggregation method in the 'Aggregate type' dropdown menu:

 

2. The 'Scale' section gives a number of choices on how students’ posts, replies or entries will be rated. Because ratings are assigned from a drop-down menu, numeric ratings are limited to discrete intervals. If students will be assessed a whole number rating, you should set 'Scale' Type to Point and specify the desired maximum score.

3. Otherwise, you should set 'Scale' Type to Scale. The following are some examples of commonly used scales:

• • Half Points and Quarter point scales can be used to give posts fractional numeric ratings.
  • Pass/Fail and Complete / Non-Complete can be used to give a student’s post a mark of either 0 or 1 but will be displayed as Pass, Fail, Complete, or Non-Complete.
  • More details on other scales can be found by clicking on the Grades tab at the top of your course main page. Then under the 'Grader report' drop-down, click on 'Scales'. It is also possible to Create and Use Custom Scales:

4. Choose a 'Scale' type:

5. The Like scale can be used to rate forum posts, glossary entries and database entries by the number of likes, similar to ‘liking’ something on social media. The Like scale is unique because the only assignable grade is Like and is, therefore, most often used with the Count of ratings Aggregate type. Numerically, a Like is worth 1 mark.

Who can rate activities:

Note that by default, only administrative roles in the course are allowed to rate forum posts, glossary entries and database entries. If you want to set your forum up so that students can 'Like' each other's posts, please follow the instructions in the article Allowing Students to Rate Forum Posts.

Time/date restrictions:

6. If you wish to add time restrictions to specify which ratings will be calculated, select the checkbox next to "Restrict ratings to items with dates in this range" and enter the desired range of dates.

7. Click Save and return to course, or Save and display, at the bottom of the page when you are done.

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• If you want your students to submit in groups, change 'Students submit in groups' to Yes.
  
  
• If you want students not in groups to make submissions, change the option for 'Require group to make submission' to No. This should generally not be changed as it prevents a known issue where student's submissions into the 'Default group' block all others from submitting.
  
  
• If you want to receive only a single submission from the entire group, leave the option for 'Require all group members submit' set to No (which is the default setting and not editable unless the setting 'Require students click submit button' is set to Yes).
  
  
• If you have a combined course or are using a number of different groups during the term in your course, you will need to specify a grouping to identify the specific set of groups to be applied for this assignment. For more information on creating groups and groupings, please see Setting Up Groupings. Note: if you do not correctly complete this step and have set 'Require all group members to submit' to No, the first student submission will get added to all the students and no one else will be able to submit.
  
  
• WARNING: Once submissions have been made, DO NOT alter the groups or groupings in any way. If groups or groupings need to be updated or changed, we recommend that you create new groups/groupings and re-deploy the assignment with the updated group settings. Failure to do so will result in lost student submission data and glitches with the assignment review.
  
  
• Once groups submissions are made, when you are grading you have the option of providing a single grade to all group members at once:
  
  

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Setting up a Marking Guide:

1. In your Assignment settings, select Marking guide for the 'Grading method' in the 'Grading' settings.
2. Customize the rest of the assignment settings as desired.
3. See the article Adding assignments for more detailed information.
4. Click Save and Display.
   
   
   
   
5. The first time you save an assignment with Marking guide as the grading method, a page will open so that you can 'Define a new grading form from scratch' or 'Create new grading form from a template':
   
   
   
   
6. If you wish to define the grading form later or make changes to it, you can access it by clicking on going to your assignment's Advanced grading tab.
   
   
   
   
7. To configure your new marking guide you must first enter a name. The name is important if you want to re-use this marking guide in other assignments.
8. You can then begin customizing each criterion by specifying the content, description for students and/or markers and the maximum mark.
9. To enter text, click directly on the specific items in each criterion.

• Note: you can enter multiple lines of text along with the grade for the criteria in the Descriptions simply by pressing Enter at the end of each line, for example:
  • 0 - Submission is not coherent
  • 2 - Response produces an adequate argumentative structure
  • 5 - The argument is well-structured and persuasive

10. You may also wish to add snippets of text to be used as Frequently used comments for quickly adding common feedback items to student assignments.

11. Click the checkboxes to enable Show guide definition to students and Show marks per criterion to students if you wish to display the marking guide breakdown to students with all the descriptions and marks awarded for each criterion.

12. Finally, click Save marking guide and make it ready.

Grading using a Marking Guide:

1. Once students have submitted their assignments, access the assignment grading table as usual by entering the assignment and clicking View all submissions.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the corresponding Grade button next to the student's submission.
   
   
   
   
3. The marking guide will automatically be displayed on the grading page. Use the marking guide to grade student assignments and add feedback.
   
   
   
   
   
   4. Selecting the Insert frequently used comment button for a criterion will display a pop-up from which you can select the comment to append.
   
   
   
   

5. Remember to save changes.

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Forum ratings can be customized with a specific aggregation method and custom scale (see this article for instructions - Grading Forums, Glossaries and Databases Using Ratings).
By default, instructors and TAs with gradebook privileges will be able to rate, edit, and view the aggregated forum totals for each post.

It is possible to give students additional privileges to rate forum posts as a collaborative activity with control over whether or not they can see each posts total aggregated score and/or who has provided what ratings - Allowing Students to Rate Forum Posts (Peer review).
So while whole forum grading is best for instructors who want to look at a course participant's posts and give it a direct grade, or to mark using grading methods like marking guides or rubrics, forum ratings are best for if you want to mark it based on a certain aggregation method, such as the average of all ratings of a student's posts in a forum over the course duration, or if you want to students to rate each other's posts.

Rating Forum Posts

1. After setting up the Forum Ratings, at the bottom of each post (and reply) in a forum, instructors and TAs will see a Rate dropdown menu with their chosen aggregation method and scale. Select the desired value from the dropdown to rate the forum post.
   
   
   
   
2. Once you specify a rating, the page should refresh to reflect the addition of your rating to the aggregation. This will be visible immediately to the left of the rating dropdown in the form of 2 numbers: the first number displays the aggregated rating and the second number enclosed in the brackets indicates how many people have rated the post (ie. the number of ratings used in the aggregation). For example, 3(1) means that the forum post scored a 3 based on one rating. Note that students do not see the aggregated score or count for ratings.
   
   
   
   
3. Once a forum has been rated, clicking the two numbers will show the instructor a summary of which other instructors or TAs have provided ratings and their score. This summary view can be useful in collaborative situations when students have been given rating capabilities.
   
   

 

Navigating within forums to facilitate grading in forums:

1. If you ever need to return quickly to the main forum page listing all topics, click Forum.
2. You can navigate to the previous or next post in a forum by clicking the topic title and arrows at the top and bottom of the current post and replies.

• 1 Setting up Whole Forum Grading
• 2 Grading Forums
• 3 Notes

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Once student submissions have been made, the online grading workflows are accessed through the Grade option below the assignment submissions summary; the bulk download options are available under View all submissions:

Downloading A Single Student's Files

Within the online grader, there are links to download the files from a specific submission. This can be useful if there is a problem with a specific file preventing it from being converted for online markup:

Bulk Downloads

For bulk downloads on the student submissions table (under View all submission), select Download all submissions:

Before downloading multiple Assignment submissions, decide whether you want to download the submissions as files or folders and select that option below the table under 'Options':

This setting will become your user default setting for assignment downloads. For either option you select, each file or folder will be renamed to uniquely identify each student.

• If you uncheck the option to “Download submissions in folders,” each submission will be a file renamed to match the identity of each student.

• If you leave the option to “Download submissions in folders” checked, each submission will be zipped in a folder named to match the identity of each student. To identify the zipped items as folders, an underscore is suffixed to each folder name.

This action will produce a .zip file, which when uncompressed or extracted will create a folder containing all the student submissions. The assignment files are named via the following convention: group name if selected, student name, random assignment ID-name, original file name.) The folder is named with the course name, the assignment name, and a unique ID.

This naming convention cannot be changed if you intend to upload these files back into each students file feedback area in the eClass assignment. If you are planning to do this, it is recommended to have your students submit their assignments in a common format that you can annotate such as an MS Word document or a PDF. Then, when you extract the .zip file containing all the submissions, you can edit these documents directly in the same folder. 

When you have decompressed or extracted the zipped assignments, you may start grading and annotating them but please note:

• Do not rename any of the files;
• If you downloaded the files in folders, annotate the files within the folder;
• Do not move the files from the folders, and do not rename the folders.

Selecting Multiple Files for Download

• It is also possible to download only selected student's submissions: place a check to the left of their name and choose Download selected student submissions from the dropdown below the table and click Go:
  
  

Uploading Multiple Assignment Feedback Files

When you have finished marking up assignment, you can upload to the Assignment submissions page.

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• Click on the Assignment on your course page
• Click on View all submissions
• Click on the Grade button
• At the bottom right of the page, adjust the view so that you can see the student's submission.
  
  
  
  
• These buttons will display different views of a PDF of the student's submission and a series of annotation tools along the top to provide text, graphical, and icon feedback directly onto the PDF. These tools do not have any customization options. Instructors can use the 2 icons to rotate student submissions that are uploaded in the wrong orientation.
  
  
  
  
• Once finished annotating and grading a student's submission, Save changes at the bottom of the page.
• Once saved, students can view your annotated PDF through their assignment submission page and can download or view it online.
  
  

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To enable anonymous submissions:

1. Turn on Edit mode at the top right corner of your class page
2. Click on the 3-dot dropdown to the right of the assignment and select 'Edit settings'
3. In your Assignment settings, scroll down to the 'Grade' option and select Yes for the 'Anonymous submissions' option. 
4. Save your changes and return to the main course page.
   
   

To grade assignments using anonymous submissions:

1. Click on the assignment and select View all submissions.
   
   
   
   
2. The "Identifier" column in the Gradebook now displays random numbers in place of student names:
   
   

To release grade to students using anonymous submissions:

1. From the assignment's 'Grading summary' page, click on View all submissions.
   
   
   
   
2. At the top left of the page, from the 'Grading action' drop-down menu, select Reveal student identities.
   
   
   
   
3. To confirm that you want to reveal student identities and release student grades to the gradebook, click on Continue.
   
   
   
   
4. The "Identifier" column in the Gradebook now displays student names in place of random numbers:

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• 1 Assigning Markers to grade assignments
• 2 Viewing assigned graders
• 3 Hiding the identity of graders from students

To split up grading of assignments:

1. Turn on 'Marker allocation' under the 'Grade' section in your assignment settings. Note: You cannot turn on 'Marker allocation' until the 'Marking workflow' is turned on.
   
   
   
   
2. This adds a column to the assignment grading table ('View/grade all assignments') called Marker. The marker for a one or more particular assignment(s) can be specified directly from this dropdown:
   
   
   
   
3. You are also able to bulk assign markers. First select the students by checking the box at the left of their row, then from the 'With selected...' area at the bottom of the page, choose Set allocated marker and then Go:
   
   

Then confirm the assignment of the marker for the selected students by clicking Save changes:

Viewing Assigned Graders

Once grading is underway, it is possible to filter the assignment grading table to view the progress of individual graders or review their grades.

You can similarly further filter the table for assignments given a particular status of the grading workflow.

Hiding grader identity from students:

If you are working a large class and want all students to contact a specific instructor or a central email with questions surrounding grading, it is possible to hide the grader identity from students: 

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Initial setup

First, you will need to set up groups of students in your course. Each group is representative of the group of students that one marker is responsible for grading.

If these groups will be different for each assignment, you will need to create a unique set of groups for each assignment. Setting up a Grouping for each assignment can be helpful when grading assignment submissions. Be sure to use unique and descriptive group names: e.g., Assignment 1 Group 1, Assignment 1 Group 2, Assignment 1 Group 3, Assignment 2 Group 1, Assignment 2 Group 2, etc.

Course setup

Setting a course-level group mode is required to see the per-grader averages for assignments. To set a course-level group mode, click on the Settings tab on your course main page, then scroll down to the Groups area of the settings and change Group mode to Visible groups.

 

Assignment setup (optional)

Note: If students are to submit in groups, the assignment should be configured for group submission.

There are two ways to configure an assignment which can help markers keep track of which students they are responsible for grading.

The easiest way is to enable a group mode for the assignment. To set an assignment’s group mode, click on the Settings tab on your assignment page, then under Common module settings, change Group mode to Visible groups then Save at the bottom of the page. This area is also where you can specify a grouping if you will have varying marker allocations throughout the course.

It is also possible to explicitly allocate specific markers to a specific set of students using marker allocation but this is not a prerequisite for viewing per-grader averages. For more details on marker allocation, please see Splitting up Grading of Assignments in Large Sections.

 

Splitting assignment grading by group

After completing the steps outlined above, each grader will have the ability to filter assignment submissions by Group. To do so, click on View All Submissions in the assignment that is being graded.

Then select a group from the Visible Groups drop-down at the top of the page. This can help graders keep track of which students they are assigned to grade.

For an overview of using the assignment grading table, please see Grading Student Assignments.

Viewing per-grader averages

Per-grader averages can be viewed from within the gradebook which is accessed by clicking on Grades tab at the top of the page.

Similarly to assignments, the gradebook can be filtered by group. To do so, select a group from the Visible groups drop-down.

After selecting a group, both the Overall average and Group average are displayed at the bottom of the Grader report. In large courses, these averages can be used to determine the relative difficulty of each grader. Accordingly, manual adjustments can be made to balance out students’ grades.

NOTICE: Please be advised that the content of this article may only be relevant for users concluding the final stages of course work on eClass or for users on the eClass External system. The eClass Learning Management System is currently in a read-only state that prohibits new courses, enrollments, and users from being added to the site. Credit courses and co-curricular courses at the UofA are now being delivered on Canvas, and full articles on how to use Canvas can be found here.

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, please see the following article in order to make one: Using Rubrics.

To use an existing rubric for another assignment:

1. First, click on the assignment. 
   
   
   
   
2. On the assignment's Grading summary page, click on the Advanced grading tab on the top panel.
   
   
   
   
3. You will be taken to a new page. On the top of the page. there will be a drop-down menu box. Select Rubric as the option from the list. Then, click on Create new grading form from a template.
   
   
   
   
4. On the new page, there will be a search function that will allow you to find any of your own existing rubrics. Type in the name of the rubric here. Please ensure you click on the check box "include my own forms".
   
   
   
   
5. A list of all the rubrics you created should appear. When you find the rubric, click on Use this form as a template.
   
   
   
   
6. Then, click on Continue and you are done.  
   
   
   
   You can now use your previously created rubric for your current assignment.