Quizzes can be graded in several ways in Brightspace. This article explains how to use each of the possibilities:
-
Manual Grading
- The basic method of evaluating a student's quiz attempt.
-
Automatic Evaluation
- A helpful time-saving tool. It will grade any questions on completion of the quiz, allowing students to see their grade immediately.
-
Unbiased Marking
- This allows you to evaluate students' attempts without potential bias.
Please take into account that simultaneous horizontal assessment (per question) with multiple markers is not possible. If you want to grade quizzes per question with other colleagues, please make sure you do not evaluate the same student at the same time. Your evaluation of a question might be overruled by your colleagues when you grade the same student, even if you grade different questions.
Manual Grading
- Click Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Quizzes.
You will be navigated to the Manage Quizzes tab.
- Click the drop-down arrow next to the quiz you want to assess.
- Click Grade.
All attempts made by each student are displayed. There are options to create a nice workflow when grading quizzes. The Pending Evaluation status is given for quiz attempts that contain questions that are not auto-graded (i.e. open questions) and need an evaluation.
- In both the Users and Attempts tabs you can filter attempts to the status of Published, Unpublished, and Pending Evaluations. You can do this by clicking on Show Search Options. This will enhance the workflow of grading a quiz per student (horizontal grading).
- You can filter down the quiz questions by clicking on the attempt itself to see which ones need manual evaluation. Locate Question View and select Pending Evaluations. Select the desired filter and then click the search icon (magnifying glass). This enhances the workflow of grading per question (horizontal grading).
Here are some other details and options that you can view by clicking on a students attempt:
- Here you will see all metadata of the student's attempts.
- Under Evaluation Summary you manually edit the final score for the quiz.
- Optional: Add Overall Attempt Feedback.
- Under Quiz Results you can review all the student's answers to each question.
- After evaluating you can save the grade and feedback as a draft or publish it immediately per student.
Note: If you want to release all feedback and grades to all students at the same time, choose Save Draft. - Select the forward chevron to see the next student's attempt.
Note that any ungraded written response questions remain as pending evaluation until you manually grade them. This message will appear: "not auto-graded; a default value of 0 was assigned", and will disappear once you have graded the question.
Click on Back in the upper left corner to return to list view of all the attempts.
Finally, select all student attempts and click on Publish Feedback to release all grades and written feedback.
If needed, the quiz can also be exported in an Excel or .CSV format for further evaluation as this displays all attempts and corresponding results.
Automatic Evaluation
Note: If you use any quiz question types that can't be evaluated automatically (i.e. written response), don't opt for Automatically Publish Evaluation. Questions with a closed answer, like True or False, can be used in automatic grading.
- Go to Course Tools and click on Quizzes.
- Click on the Quiz name you want to edit.
- Navigate to the Assessment tab.
You will see a similar screen as shown below:
Make sure the tick box Automatically Publish Evaluation is selected and click on Save and Close. When your students complete this quiz, they will immediately receive their grade. Unlike manual grading, you do not have to publish the feedback.
Unbiased Marking
Brightspace offers a feature to hide students' names in order to allow for evaluating responses without potential bias.
- Click Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Quizzes.
You will be navigated to the Manage Quizzes tab.
- Click the fold-out arrow next to the quiz you want to assess.
- Click Grade.
- Navigate to the Questions tab.
- Tick the box of Hide learners' names.
- Click on the question you want to evaluate.
- Review the given answer.
- Enter or adjust a score for this question.
- Add specific feedback on this answer.
- Click on Save and Continue to review the next attempt (of another student) on this question.
- Use the drop-down at the top to adjust the number of responses you will see per page.
- Finally, click on Go Back to Questions after you have reviewed all the responses to this question.
Have a look at the video below. In the tutorial, they use Unbiased Marking while grading a quiz.
This video is made by Brightspace supplier D2L, using an older version of Brightspace. Some screens may look different, such as the 'Unbiased Marking' option, which in earlier versions is called "Blind Marking".