Marking guide

New feature
in Moodle 3.7! A marking guide is an advanced grading method where a teacher enters a comment per criterion and a mark up to a maximum.

Selecting Marking guide

• Create an assignment, and in the Grades section, choose from the Grading method drop down menu the Marking guide option:

Creating a new Marking guide

• When the assignment has been created and Marking guide selected as above, click Save and display and choose Define new grading form from scratch

• Give the guide a name and description.
• Click on the criterion name to edit it. It will open up a box for typing into.
• Click the Click to edit links to provide an explanation for students and for markers as to what is required. It will open up a box for typing into.
• Click the Click to edit link to allocate a maximum mark for this criterion. It will open up a box for typing into.

Adding more criteria

• Click the button to add one or more criteria (and then repeat the process as above)

Adding frequently used comments

• If a teacher regularly uses the same comments when marking, it is possible to add these to a frequently used comments bank.
• Click the Click to edit link and add a comment.
• Click the +Add frequently used comment button to add another one and repeat as needed:

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See also

• MDL-31731