Wytheville Community College – Distance & Distributed Learning

Question-by-question grading accommodates instructors whose preferred workflow for assignments and assessments is to enter grades by question for all students as opposed to by all questions by a student. For example, you may want to gain an overall feel for how the class has answered an essay question by moving through all of the students’ attempts for that question before moving to the next question.  Grading this way can save time as you concentrate only on the answers for a single question. You can see how all students responded, providing immediate feedback about how the group performed on that particular question. Also, grading by question is useful when you want to revisit a question that requires a score adjustment for all or many students.

1. Go to Control Panel > Grade Center
2. Click on the double down arrow next a test column and select Grade Questions. The Grade Questions page appears.



3. On the Grade Questions page, you can filter the questions by status: Graded, Needs Grading, or In Progress. You may also select the check box for Grade Responses Anonymously, if needed.



4. Under the Response column, see the number of responses for an individual question. Click the link displaying the number of responses.



5. On the Grade Responses page, click on the link for Question Information to view the question. Optionally, if anonymous grading was not previously selected, click Hide User Names to activate this feature.



6. Click Edit next to the score for a student. Type a grade in the Score box. Optionally, add Response Feedback specific to the individual question. The Response Feedback box only appears for certain question types, such as essays. Use the Text Editor functions to format the text and add files, images, links, multimedia, and Mashups. Click Submit.



7. Once you are finished the grading for all students’ response to that particular question, click Back to Questions (at end of the page) to return to the Grade Questions page.

To download this tutorial, click here: Grade Tests by Question Attempt!

Instructors can grade assignment and test attempts while information identifying the student remains concealed. Only after the grade for the attempt has been submitted will the identity of the student be exposed. This feature is accessed through the column contextual menu (the double down arrow next to the column title) in the Grade Center. It also can be activated when grading attempts. When grading anonymously, all identifying information is hidden and assessment attempts appear in random order. Each student is assigned a number, such as Student 8.

To grade anonymously from the Needs Grading page:

1. Click on the double down arrow next to an assignment or test and select Grade Anonymously. The Grade Assignment/Test page appears.



2. The student’s name shows as “Student 1”. You can complete the grading on this page.

To grade anonymously from the Grade Center:

1. Go to Grade Center. Click on the double down arrow next to an assignment/test column.  Select Grade Anonymously.

The Grade Assignment/Test page appears. The student’s name shows as “Student 1”. You can complete the grading on this page.

To download this tutorial, click here: Grade Assignments and Tests Anonymously!

To quickly enter grades in the grade center:

1. If you’re entering a list of grades manually, be sure you’re in interactive view, not screen reader view.   Interactive view displays the Grade Center similar to an Excel workbook, where you can enter grades and click on Enter to move to the next cell.
   
2. Click in the cell, enter the grade and hit Enter to move to the next cell in the column
3. Once you’ve added your grades in a column, you can go back to each cell, click the chevron (drop down arrow) and add a quick comment.  Grades are automatically saved when you move to the next cell.

   

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Entering Grades!

Once Grade Center Columns are created the instructor may want to Edit the Column’s name or other attributes of that column.  Editing Grade Center Columns can include a variety of items which are listed at the bottom of this training document.

1. Click on the action link  next to the column name you’d like to edit
2. This will open another screen with a variety of actions you can perform to this column
3. Choose Edit Column Information to open the screen where you’ll make  your changes



4. Enter your changes
5. Click Submit to saveBelow is a grid with the various column changes you can make with explanations:
   

To download this tutorial, click here: BB91 GC Editing Columns!