assignments

1. To add members such as graders or facilitators to your Crowdmark Team, Click “Team.”

2. Click “Customize team”

3. You can sync your Moodle course’s teaching assistants and lab coordinators to your grading team in Crowdmark.

Click “course.”

4. Click “Sync with Moodle”

5. Choose what their roles will be in Crowdmark.

6. Once you have assigned roles to your team members, click “Update team.”

7. Sometimes, your graders are not part of your Moodle roster. In that case, you will want to add those users to your team using the steps below.

Tip: Instructors can use a secondary email to add themselves as graders. Taking this action can help with troubleshooting issues for the graders.

8. In the Team window, Click “Add by email“

9. Click the “Type (or paste) your team members’ email addresses in the field on the page. Put one address on each line.

10. Once you have entered the email addresses, Click “Continue.”

11. Click “Add 1 team member.”

12. You will now see your team member added to the roster.

Create text answer questions in Crowdmark for exams

1. Once you add questions to your assessment, note that you can have students complete a text entry assessment.

2. Choose “Text answer question” from the drop-down menu to switch to a text answer question.

You have the same editing options as other types of questions.

2. Click the “Question” field and enter your text.

That’s all there is to creating a text entry question

Creating Multiple-choice Questions in Moodle with Crowdmark

1. Crowdmark allows you to choose extra settings for your multiple-choice questions. Click “Settings.”

2. Two options are available in the drop-down menu. Students can select ONE or ALL correct answers.

A) You can set up a question where students must select ALL that apply to the question or statement or;

B) the question can have multiple correct answers, but the student only needs to select ONE of the correct answers, NOT ALL;

Alternatively, you can have the students choose ONE correct answer, and you will only have ONE correct answer identified.

5. Click this icon.

6. Choose how many(If any) points the student will lose for choosing one of the wrong answers.

Remember to click “Save” to confirm and lock in your changes.

Making Image/PDF Questions in Crowdmark

1. Click “add a question” and enter a label for the question if you wish for something different than the default.

2. Choose “Image/PDF question” from the question type drop-down menu.

3. Choose how many points your question will be worth.

4. Click in the question field and enter your question or prompt. You can attach files, link websites, and use other formatting options. Click on the formatting tips below the Question field.

Grading with a Rubric

1. Now that the rubric is all setup, we can start grading the submissions.

Click “View all submissions” to see all the submissions so you can select specific submissions to grade.

2. Alternatively, click “Grade” to access the assignment’s grading window. This method does not allow you to choose which submission to grade; instead, it will access the first ungraded submission.

4. On the right of the screen, you will see the Rubric choices with the criteria listed.

Then, make selections for ALL of the criteria in the rubric.

5. Once you select all criteria levels and provide feedback, click “Save and show next.” This will take you to the next student to grade.

Creating a Rubric for an assignment

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.