Grade Book

A Grade Book assessment may be used to manually grade assignments, it will not appear in the student guides. When the instructor opens a student assignment, the Grade Book is available for rubric based grading. Comments, points, and rubric items are visible to the student when the assessment is graded and the grades are released. Grade Book assessments do not show in the total assessment count on student/teacher dashboard. For more information on General, Metadata (optional) and Files (optional) see Assessments.

1. Complete General. Keep the Show Name setting enabled to make submissions easier to locate when grading.

2. Click Grading in the navigation pane and complete the following fields:

• Points - Enter the score if the student selects the correct answer. You can choose any positive numeric value. If this is an ungraded assessment, enter zero (0).

• Allow Partial Points - Partial points must be toggled on for this type of assessment. Once you toggle this on, you will be able to add rubric items. Rubric items are negative points, they will be subtracted from the total score of the assessment.

  

3. Click Create to complete the process.

Grading a Grade Book Assessment

Note

When grading, click on the 0 or 1 to allocate initial points for overall correctness, then use the other rubric items to subtract points for missing items. There is also a Points adjust field if you wish to adjust total points upwards.

Instructors can grade Grade Book assessments using either of the following methods:

Method 1: Grade from the Student Assignment

1. Open the student assignment

2. Locate the Grade Book assessment in the student file

3. Click Grade

Method 2: Grade from the Assignment Overview

1. Go to the assignment overview

2. Click the points corresponding to the student you want to grade

3. Click the Grade Book assessment

Cloning a Rubric for a Grade Book Assessment

You can clone a rubric for a Grade Book assessment using either of the following methods:

Note

If you already have rubric items in the Grade Book assessment, copying another rubric will append the new rubric items to your current rubric rather than replacing them.

Method 1: Clone from Content Editing

1. While creating a Grade Book assessment, navigate to the Grading tab

2. Click the settings gear icon next to Rubric Items

3. In the pop-up window, click the rubric you want to copy

4. Confirm your changes by clicking yes

Method 2: Clone from Assignment Overview

1. Follow steps 1-3 from Method 2: Grade from the Assignment Overview above to open the Grade Book assessment

2. Next to Total Points, click Copy Rubrics

3. Click the arrow next to the rubric you want to copy

4. Confirm your changes by clicking yes