Sakai 25 - Assignments: How do I grade an assignment?
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How do I grade an assignment?
This article also assumes that the assignment is not graded with a rubric. For specific details on how to grade assignments with a rubric, refer also to either How do I grade an assignment using a rubric in the legacy grading interface? or How do I grade an assignment using a rubric?
For grading peer review assignments, refer instead to the article, How do I grade a peer review assignment? To have teaching assistants grade, refer to How do I enable teaching assistants to grade assignments, tests, and quizzes?
Note that you can also use the grading tools in Turnitin Feedback Studio, or you can grade assignments offline, per the steps described in How do I download assignments for grading offline? and How do I upload graded assignment submissions and feedback?
Go to Assignments.
Select the Assignments tool from the Tool Menu in your site.
Select the assignment to grade.
Click the Grade option associated with an assignment.
Note: If you did not choose a grading scale for the assignment, View Submissions will be displayed to you rather than Grade.
Check the box next to 'Use new grading interface' to grade submissions.
Tip: If you open a submission to grade and don't see the new interface, try deselecting and then reselecting Use new grading interface.
Select a student to grade.
Select a student to grade by clicking on their ID in the Student column.
View the student's inline submission, if available.
- The student submission should display by default. If there is more than one item submitted, you may also click Inline Submission to display the student's inline submission in the document viewing area.
- The student's inline submission displays in the viewing area.
- Select the Add Feedback button if you would like to enter comments or feedback directly into the inline submission. Feedback should be surrounded by double curly brackets and will appear in red text to the student.
View the student's submitted attachment, if available.
- The student submission should display by default. If there is more than one item submitted, you may also click the attachment filename link to open it within the document viewing area.
- View the attached submission in the viewing area.
Enter a grade.
Enter the score for the student's assignment in the Grade field. The maximum available points display to you next to the Grade field.
Or, grade with a rubric. (Optional)
For specific details on how to grade assignments with a rubric, refer also to either How do I grade an assignment using a rubric? or How do I grade an assignment using a rubric in the legacy grading interface?
Enter summary comments. (Optional)
To add summarizing feedback for the student, click Add Summary Comments.
- Enter comments using the Rich Text Editor.
- Click Done to save your feedback.
Add a feedback attachment. (Optional)
To add a file attachment as part of feedback that will be available to the student, click Add Attachments and then attach a file from your device.
Add private notes. (Optional)
Click Private Notes to include additional information about your feedback for other instructors or TAs to view, but that will not be visible to the student,
- Enter comments using the Rich Text Editor.
- Click Done.
Allow resubmissions.
If you would like to allow the student to resubmit the assignment, check the Allow Resubmission box and specify the number of resubmissions allowed and the date until which they will be accepted.
Note: If you allowed resubmissions on the assignment when you created it, this information will be prepopulated with the default resubmission information for this assignment. Override the default resubmission settings for an individual student by changing the information in the Allow Resubmission area.
Save the score and feedback.
- Click Save & Don’t Release to save the grade and feedback. This option does not release the grade to the student.
- Or, click Save & Release to immediately release the grade and feedback to the student.
Tip: Some instructors prefer to release all of the grades and feedback at one time after they have finished entering grades for the entire class. See How do I release assignment grades? for more information about releasing all grades and feedback at one time.
Navigate to other submissions. (Optional)
Navigate to other student submissions to using the left arrow icon (View the previous submission) or the right arrow icon (View the next submission).
Customize the grader navigation and display settings. (Optional)
Optionally, click the gear icon (Grader Settings) to customize the navigation and display settings so as speed up grading tasks.
- To only view students with submissions for the assignment, select Navigate between students with submissions while navigating.
- Under Graded Status, you can select to view All Submissions, Only show ungraded submissions, or Only show graded submissions while navigating.
- To view submissions for one group at a time while navigating submissions, choose the group under the Select a group dropdown menu.
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