Assignment Advanced Marking
This is a proposal for additional marking features in the Assignment module.
References: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Lightwork#User_Interface_-_Marker_allocation_and_management
Goals and rationale
The main goals of this change are to:
- Enable dividing the marking of large classes among multiple markers
- Enable markers to review each others marking before releasing it to students
- Enable markers to review their own marking before releasing it to students
- Not add any additional complexity for people who do not need these features
Overview
Settings added to the mod_assign settings page:
Release grades immediately (Checkbox, default to on - this is the current behaviour)
[Help text] When enabled, grades will be visible to students as soon as they have been entered by a grader (If the grade column is visible in the gradebook). When disabled, any grades that are entered will be only visible to graders until they are approved for release.
Allocate markers to students (Select list of options, "None - all markers can mark all students", "Manually allocated - markers are manually allocated students to mark", "Groups - Markers can mark students in their own group")
When the grouping method is chosen above, an additional setting should be enabled to allow a grouping to be specified for the marker allocations.
Grouping for marker allocations (Select from the available groupings - or None for all groups)
Changes to grading/grading interface:
If "Release grades immediately" is not enabled, an additional status should be added to the grading status column "Draft/Ready for release/Released"
Anyone with mod/assign:grade capability would be able to move the status from "Draft" to "Ready for release" via the drop down menu on each submission, or via the batch operations form.
Anyone with mod/assign:releasegrade (new) capability would be able to move the grade from either "Draft" or "Ready for release" to "Released". At this point the grade is pushed to the gradebook and made visible to the student.
