Assignment grading (tutorial)

This is a brief tutorial on Assignments. Assignments are a type of Activity. This page was called "Awarding marks to and giving feedback on submissions"

How to Mark and Provide Feedback for Assignments

1. Click directly on the assignment whose submissions you wish to mark.
2. Click on View submitted assignments (top right)
3. Before going any further, I would like to draw your attention to some settings on this page. Scroll to the bottom and you will see: Submissions per page and Allow quick grading
   1. I find it useful to set the submissions per page quite large so as not to have to keep opening new pages to see more students.
   2. Normally you have to click on Grade on the right to open a new page where you can view the submission and enter marks and type some feedback text. If you Allow quick grading you can do this on the same line as the submission is listed.
   3. Save preferences if you change either of these. For the rest of this, I will assume that you have enabled Allow quick grading.
4. On the line across for each person, if they have submited, you will see a link to a file. If you click on the file it will either open in a new browser window (if your browser is capable of viewing the document), or it will ask you if you wish to save to disc or open using the appropriate application program.
5. Once you have viewed their submission, you can then indicate a mark from the drop down list, and/or enter your comments in the box.
6. You can do this for many students, however the marks are not stored until you select Save all my feedback either at the top or the bottom of the list of student. It is advisable not to leave too long a time before doing this. After you do this, all students who you left feedback for are sent an email to let them know that there is feedback available for them.
7. You might not that if you have a long list of students you can sort in many ways, firstname, lastname etc by clicking on the blue link at the top of each column. A useful way is to sort by "Last modified Student" (get the arrow pointing upwards - ie. latest first) which will show the most recently submitted. If you allow more than one submission it is also useful to compare "Last modified student" date with "Last modified Lecturer" date as you can spot who has resubmitted since you last commented.