Grading

1. If you have already set the assignment settings, then click “Advanced grading.”

2. Select the “rubric” option from the “Change active grading method to” drop-down menu.

3. You will see a few buttons appear AFTER you select the rubric option.

Click “Define new grading form from scratch.“

4. Enter a name for your rubric.

If you have multiple rubrics, add a rubric description so it is easy to find. This will help you differentiate between rubrics.

5. Now, we need to create the functionality of the rubric.

Scroll down to the Rubric area. Click “Add levels” (details that define what the points are worth) and “Add criterion” (Thematic criteria or areas you will focus on when grading) to build the structure of your rubric.

6. Click on a level to edit it. To change it, type or paste the text into the “level” field.

If you need more than three levels, select “Add level” from the top right of the screen.

You can also delete levels by clicking the grey “x” near the point values.

7. You can set the order of your levels to descending or ascending and choose some display options for the rubric.**

8. Be sure to save the settings before moving on.

Assignment settings to use a Rubric

1. Click on an assignment to be taken to the assignment page. Alternatively, you can add a new activity or resource and choose “Assignment.”

2. Click “Settings” to see ALL the assignment settings.

3. You can set your due dates and cut-off dates in the “Availability” section

4. Be sure to allow file submissions and limit the number and size of uploads if needed.

5. Click the “Accepted file types” field.

Type “.pdf” in the field.

Now, students can only upload PDF files. They will receive an error if they try to upload a different file type.

You can limit this to all file types if you wish. Click on the “Choose” button to see more options.

Setting file type to Word documents only.
“.docx, .doc” will only allow Microsoft Word documents.

6. Set the appropriate feedback types for your assignment.

Since the assignment is limited to PDF submissions, we want to choose “Annotate PDF.”

7. Now, the assignment is set up to grade using the Annotated PDF feature. Click “Save and display” to start accepting submissions.

Providing Feedback Files When Grading Moodle Assignments.

1. Navigate to the assignment you are grading.

Click “View all submissions.”

2. Instead of going to each student and grading in the browser window, we will download all the submissions so we can make comments and provide feedback directly in their submission.

Click “Download all submissions.”

3. The submissions are downloaded in a Zip file; each is labelled with the student’s name in their document title.

Open the document and make comments where you have concerns with the submission. Type your comments in a different colour or easily distinguishable font from the submission fonts

.4. You can now provide a grade and upload the feedback file you just created.

Click “Grade” to perform these tasks.

5. Provide a numerical grade for the student. In this case the grade is out of 25.

6. Type general feedback in the “Feedback comments” field.

7. Now you can upload the file you commented in back to the student.

8. Click “Upload a file” and choose the file you created as the “Feedback file.”

9. Give your document a name in the “Save as” field.

Once done, click “Upload this file.”

10. Once you have input all the comments and grades, click “Save changes.”

11. Click “View all submissions”

12. You can see that “Student 11” received feedback comments, a numerical grade, and the attached uploaded feedback file.

Assignment Settings to receive Feedback files.

1. Click “Add an activity or resource.”

2. Click “Assignment”

3. Click the “Assignment name” field and enter a name and description for your assignment.

4. Click the “Enable” field.

5. Don’t forget to set all your due dates and cut-off dates.

6. Be sure to allow “File submissions” in the submission types area.

Click the “maximum number of uploaded files” dropdown and set the maximum number allowed. In this example, we will put it to “1.”

7. Lower the size of the file submission as well unless you know they will be uploading large files.

8. Type “.doc, .docx” in the “Accepted files” field.

9. Under “Feedback types,” choose “Feedback comments” and “Feedback files.” This will allow you to provide written comments appearing in the student’s Grades section, and you can upload a file with feedback written in it.

10. Change your “Maximum grade” to work with your grade scheme.

11. Once you have entered all the required settings, click “Save and Display.”

How To Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback with inLine Comments

1. In your course, click on the assignment for which grading is required.

2. You can click “View all submissions ” to choose a specific student to grade.

3. Choose the student whom you wish to grade. Click “Grade”

4. You can see how many words were submitted and can click on the “+” icon to “View full”

5. In the “Feedback comments” area, the text submitted by the student is pulled into the “Feedback comments” field so that you can provide feedback inline.

6. Once you are done providing grades and comments for this submission, click “Save and Show Next” to go to the next student submission.

Settings for Using Inline Comments on Assignments

1. In the assignment you wish to allow inline commenting, click on the Settings tab.

2. Make sure your submission types are set to accept online text or file submissions.

3. Set the word limit for online text submissions.

4. Enter “.docx and .doc” in the “Accpeted file types” field.

5. Toggle “Feedback comments” on.

Check the “Comment inline” option on.

6. That is all for the settings.

Click “Save and Display.”

How Students View Comments and Feedback Provided with Annotated PDF Feature

1. If the assignment is graded and feedback is released, students can click on the assignment link to see their grades and any feedback given to them.

2. Here is the feedback that is first visible to the students.

3. Scrolling down, you can see that the feedback comments instruct the student to see the annotated PDF file for detailed feedback.

Click “View annotated PDF…” to see the comments placed using the annotation tool feature.

4. Students can also select the page of the document they wish to view, as there may be more feedback on the next pages.

5. If feedback comments, annotated PDFs, or Feedback files were used to provide feedback, they will also be visible to the student.

How to Grade Papers with annotated PDF feature.

1. Click on the assignment you wish to grade in your course.

2. Click “View all submissions”

3. You will have to scroll to the right in the grading area

4. Choose a student submission and click “Grade”

5. Click this button to add a comment. The colour swatch beside it can be changed to a different one to differentiate between comments.

6. Click and drag to make your comment box. Once created, type your comment inside.

7. You can use the other tools to create comments or marks on the PDF.

The document has four pages that you can switch through. Use the arrows to navigate through the pages. Be sure to grade all the pages of the submission.

8. Once done with comments, give a grade to the student.

9. You can also provide some written feedback outside of the submitted document. Students will see the comments in their grading area.

10. Click “Save and show next” to go to the next ungraded submission.

Understanding the Annotation Tools in Annotated PDF feature

1. This button chooses which colour the drawing tools will use.

2. This button allows you to type comments.

3. Choosing the rectangle icon and the green ink colour will produce a green rectangle.

4. Create a circle in the color chosen.

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