Grading Quizzes
Please see the additional articles available regarding the New Quiz experience.
This article describes three options for grading quizzes. You can grade by Users, Attempts, or Questions. Grading by Users or Attempts allows you to grade all the questions for a selected user.
Grade quizzes by user
Click on the drop-down menu arrow next to Submit in the top menu bar and choose Quizzes.
Select the drop-down arrow next to the quiz you wish to mark and select Grade.
In the list of student names, you will see the attempts for the quiz. Click on an attempt for a particular user to begin.
Scroll down to the quiz questions and enter feedback.
Enter a value in the Score field for questions that need to be graded manually or to change the score that LEARN automatically assigned.
Select Expand question feedback to provide qualitative feedback (optional).
Do not click the Auto-grade button. It will undo all the work you just did.
After grading all the questions, click Save Draft if you want to publish the score later or Publish.
You can navigate to the next and previous user by clicking the arrows in the upper right of the page.
If students have multiple attempts, you can change the attempt you are viewing using the attempt drop-down menu.
Grade quizzes by attempt
Click on the drop-down menu arrow next to Submit in the top menu bar and choose Quizzes.
Select the drop-down arrow next to the quiz you wish to mark and select Grade.
Select the Attempts tab.
In the list of student names, you will see the attempts for the quiz. Click on an attempt for a particular user to begin.
From the list of attempts select the attempt number of the student you want to grade.
Scroll down to the quiz questions and enter feedback.
Enter a value in the Score field for questions that need to be graded manually or to change the score that LEARN automatically assigned.
Select Expand question feedback to provide qualitative feedback (optional).
Do not click the Auto-grade button. It will undo all the work you just did.
If you would like to view a different attempt by the student you can use the Attempt drop-down list at the top of the page.
8. When done, click Save Draft if you want to publish the score later or Publish.
Grade quizzes by question
Click on the drop-down menu arrow next to Submit in the top menu bar and choose Quizzes.
Select the down arrow next to the quiz you wish to mark and select Grade.
Select the Questions tab to view a list of all questions on the quiz.
There is an option to Grade Individual Responses or, if the quiz contains questions that are auto-graded, you will have the option to Update All Attempts.
Grade Individual Responses
Optionally, you can select Hide Learners' Names which allows you to grade questions without the names of the student being visible.
Select the question you would like to grade. Enter a value in the Score field.
(optional) Select Expand question feedback to provide qualitative feedback.
Click the Save and Continue button to go to the next student. Use the arrow in the upper left to move through the list of users for that question.
You can use the drop-down menu to change the number of responses you see per page. If viewing more than one response per page, click the Save button and use the arrows to move through the responses.
When done, click the Go back to Questions button.
Update All Attempts
This allows you to see the percentage of responses each option received as well as the correct answer. See re-grading quiz questions for detailed information.
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