Grade an Assessment, Quiz, Exam

Automatic Grading

Assessments, except those containing paragraph questions, are graded automatically after students submit their answers. If the assessment contains paragraph questions, you must evaluate and grade those questions manually. There are a number methods for accessing the student results of an assessment. The directions below describe the most direct route.

Under the Teach Tab, go to the Assessments Click the ActionLinks icon next to the assessment you wish to review Select View Submissions
NOTE: If you do not see the Assessment you are looking for, it may be displayed on the next page. At the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page and Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assessments.	Can't find what you're looking for? There are several possibilities: Are you in the correct Tab (Build, Teach, Graded, Submitted, etc.)? Is it on the next page? Permanently increase the default number of items displayed per screen by modifying your global Bb's Paging Preference.

• Select the All tab
• The status of all your students is available in this view
  • Not Submitted indicates the student has NOT started the assessment.
  • In Progress indicates that the student has started, but has not finished the assessment. To force a submission, Click on the View Attempt 1 hyperlink next to the appropriate student's name and then click on the Force Submission button shown on the next screen.
  • Partially Graded or Not Graded indicates that the student has finished the assessment, but there are paragraph questions which must be manually graded.
  • Graded indicates that either the submission has been automatically graded, and any paragraph questions have already been manually graded.

Manual Grading

An Assessment Submission Status of Not graded or Partially Graded indicates that the student took a quiz that contains a paragraph question which cannot be automatically graded by Blackboard. The submission must be manually graded by the instructor or teaching assistant. Blackboard will not grade these questions even if they are assigned zero points. Note: This is a change from WebCT. Any quiz with a paragraph question will remain ungraded until the instructor goes in and assigns a score for each paragraph question.

You have the option of grading by Student, which allows you to grade the entire assessment from each Student, or you can grade all of the submissions for a single question. Both methods are described below.

Grade Each Student's Paragraph Submission

Under the Teach Tab, click on Assessments Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the assessment you want to grade Select View Submissions
NOTE: If you do not see the Assessment you are looking for, it may be displayed on the next page. At the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page and Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assessments.	Can't find what you're looking for? There are several possibilities: Are you in the correct Tab (Build, Teach, Graded, Submitted, etc.)? Is it on the next page? Permanently increase the default number of items displayed per screen by modifying your global Bb's Paging Preference.

• Click on the Not Graded Tab

• Click on the Date and Time under Attempt

• Review the Submission
• Enter a grade for each of the questions in the quiz that must be graded manually.
  
• Click Update Grade

Grade All Submissions for a Single Question

You may need to grade all your students on a specific question. You can even hide the students names so that you can grade the submissions anonymously. Below is a streamline method of grading and moving through the submission results.

Under the Teach Tab, click on Assessments Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the assessment you want to grade Select View Submissions
NOTE: If you do not see the Assessment you are looking for, it may be displayed on the next page. At the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page and Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assessments.	Can't find what you're looking for? There are several possibilities: Are you in the correct Tab (Build, Teach, Graded, Submitted, etc.)? Is it on the next page? Permanently increase the default number of items displayed per screen by modifying your global Bb's Paging Preference.

• Click on the Not Graded Tab

• Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the title of the assessment which contains the question you want to grade
• Select Grade All Attempts of a Single Question

• Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the title of the question you want to grade
• Select Grade All Attempts of a this Question

• Optional: Press the Hide Names button
• Select Attempt that you want to start grading

• Review and Score the submission
• Press the Save and View Next Attempt button
• Continue this process until you've finished grading the submissions for this questions
  
  Reminder: In order for students to see their grades, you must first Release the column.