Grade quizzes

When manually grading Quizzes, you can either grade a quiz per attempt or grade a quiz per question.

Grade each attempt individually

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. In the drop-down menu of the quiz, you want to grade, select Grade.

3. Select the tab Attempts.
4. All attempts made by each student are displayed. Click on attempt 1 to open the quiz attempt in full-screen mode.

5. All responses to the quiz are now shown and a grade can be added or changed. Feedback can be given using the editor that becomes visible after clicking on the Attempt Feedback text field. Images can be added to the text field by using the drag/drop or copy/paste feature. When you are ready, the feedback can be saved as a draft or published.

• Certain question types, such as written response questions require manual evalution. When assessing a quiz attempt, you can apply a filter to show only those types of questions. You can do this by selecting Pending evaluations in the drop-down menu below Question View.

6. After evaluating, select the forward chevron to see the next student attempt.

7. Click on Save and Close to save all feedback and grades and go back to all student attempts.

Grade each question individually

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. In the drop-down menu of the quiz you want to grade, select Grade. 

3. Select the tab Questions.
4. At this point, you can grade the students’ submissions for a particular question individually by selecting Grade individual responses.

5. It is also possible to mark all submissions for that particular question at once, by pressing Update all attempts. This can be useful if you made a mistake in the formulation of that question and wish to grant compensatory points for that question only.

Within the Grade Quiz window, all attempts, including retaken attempts, can be reviewed and graded.

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. In the drop-down menu of the quiz you want to grade, select Grade.

3. Select the checkbox next to each student, if only some students need to be graded. If you would like to publish all at the same time, check the top checkbox to select all students and select Publish.

To manually export grades to Gradebook, take the following steps:

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. Select the right quiz.
3. Make sure that a Grade Item is selected underneath Quiz Title.

4. Open the Evaluation & Feedback tab and make sure Synchronize to grade book on publish is unchecked. Click Save and Close. 

5. Go to the quiz and select Grade from the drop-down menu.

6. Select the Attempts you want to export and click Export to Grades.

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. In the drop-down menu of the quiz to be graded, select Grade.

3. 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.

Most question types allow for Automatic Grading so that you do not have to grade them manually, which can save a lot of time. Read more about automatic grading for questions here.

With Brightspace Quizzes it is possible to automatically release the grade when a student has finished their attempt.

• When this setting is turned on, Quizzes will be marked as graded as soon as an attempt is submitted.
• The score displayed is only what the system can automatically grade.  Any long response or short answer questions typically must be manually graded.
• The students will see the default Submission View for the quiz. You can change what students will see by customising quiz results displays in the Quiz settings.

Follow the steps below to use this option this:

1. Go to the Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. Select the right quiz.
3. Go to Evaluation & Feedback on the right side of the screen.
4. Check Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion.
5. Click Save and Close.

Brightspace can send grades directly to the Brightspace Grade Book once they have been marked as graded. You can also use this functionality if you manually grade and release the Quiz.

Follow these steps to Automatically push the grades to the Grade Book.

1. Click on Course Admin and select Quizzes.
2. Select the right quiz.
3. Go to Evaluation & Feedback on the right side of the screen.
4. Check Synchronize to grade book on publish.
5. Click Save and Close.