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Grading a Discussion Post

​Overview

The following instructions will show you how to grade individual discussion posts, one at a time, within the Discussions tool.  This can only be done if the discussion has been linked to a grade item.  If you would like to enter scores for the whole class at once, please refer to Manually Enter Grades instructions.

Entering Discussion Grades

Go to your course homepage and from the Communication drop-down menu click Discussions.

D2L Brightspace Navbar with the Communications dropdown menu expanded and a red box around the "Discussions" option in the dropdown menu.

  1. Click on the drop-down menu of the discussion you would like to grade.
  2. Click Assess Topic.

Discussions tool displaying a forum called "TBL Week 1" and three group topics within the Forum. The dropdown menu associated with "Group 1 Topic" is expanded out and there is a red box around the "Assess Topic" option in the menu.

Click the Topic Score link of the student you would like to grade.

Topic Grading screen showing a list of two users named "Paul Revere" and "Bart Simpson". Each user has a "Topic Score" hyperlink associated with them and there is a red box around Paul Revere's "Topic Score"

On the following screen you may do the following:

  1. Enter in a Topic Score for this student’s discussion post.
  2. Check the Published box have the grade automatically sent to the grade book once you finish.
  3. Leave Feedback for the student.
  4. Click Save and Close.

Labeled screenshot of the Discussion Topic grading screen showing 1. a box to enter a "Topic Score" out of 10, 2. a checkbox to mark the feedback as "Published", 3. a text editor to enter Feedback, and 4. a "Save and Close" button at the bottom of the screen. The student's post being graded is shown immediately above the "Save and Close" button.

On the final page, click Save and Close.  This will publish the scores and feedback to Grades.

Discussion topic grading screen set to the Assessments tab, showing students "Bart Simpson" and "Paul Revere" in the list of Topics to grade. There is a red box around the "Save and Close" button at the bottom of the page.

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