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Manually Grading Quizzes

Overview

If you chose not to set your quiz to be Automatically Graded upon completion you will need to mark the quiz attempts so that the results can be exported to the grade book (if applicable) and to make the quiz results available to the student.


Instructions

An easy way to determine if a quiz attempt has not been graded is to look at the Published column on the Manage Quizzes Screen. If you see a 0 or if the two numbers do not match, you will know that quiz attempts are not marked as graded.

A quiz titled "Test Quiz 3" on the Quizzes page in D2L Brightspace. The right side of the page shows that 0 out of 6 quiz attempts have been published with feedback.

Manually grading quizzes/exams can be done either at the User/Attempt level or the Question level.

Select the Assessment tab then select Quizzes from the dropdown carat beside the quiz/exam that needs to be manually graded, select Grade.

Quizzes page in D2L Brightspace with the dropdown menu associated with the quiz "Test Quiz 11" expanded out. There is a red box around the "Grade" option in the dropdown menu

The Grade Quiz window opens. There are three choices under Grade Quiz: Users, Attempts, and Questions.

Grade Quiz page for a quiz called "Test Quiz 11". A red box highlights the "Users", "Attempts" and "Questions" tabs towards the top of the page.

Under the Users tab select the student attempt that needs to be updated.

Grade Quiz page with a red box around a quiz attempt for test student "Ben Franklin"

The Evaluation Summary window opens with information pertaining to this User’s attempt and results.

Evaluation summary page for Attempt 1 for test student "Ben Franklin". A red box highlights the attempt details including the start and end time,  time spent, and auto-scored Attempt Grade of 3 out of 3.

Under this summary are the questions. Under each question is the score of the question. In the Score box, manually select inside the box and enter a new score. When finished updating the question or questions score, select the blue Update button.

Question 2 from a quiz attempt for "Test Quiz 11". A true-false question is shown along with red boxes around the question's score of 1 out of 1 and the "Update" button in the bottom-right corner of the page..

When finished updating all Users scores select the checkbox to the left of each Username updated then Publish Feedback.

Grade Quiz page showing test student Ben Franklin. Red boxes surround a checkbox next to Ben Franklin's name and around the "Publish Feedback" button about the attempts list

Republishing feedback is necessary to update the scores in the gradebook.

Under the Attempts tab select the attempt to the left of the student you would like to update the score.

The Attempts tab of the Grade Quiz page for "Test Quiz 11". Red boxes highlight the selected Attempts tab and Ben Franklin's "attempt 1" in a list of other student attempts.

The Evaluation Summary window opens with information pertaining to the attempt selected and results.

Follow the steps for updating the score under User tab above as the steps are the same.

To manually grade a question, select the Question tab. Under the Questions tab select the question that needs to be updated. Click on the question you want to grade:

Questions tab of the Grade Quiz page for "Test Quiz 11". Red boxes highlight the selected Questions tab and question 2 in a list of other quiz questions

Type the points awarded in the score field.

Update All Attempts page for question 2 on the quiz. A red box highlights the Grading Type options of "Give to all attempt _ points", which is selected, and "Give to attempts with answer _ _ points

Click Save to update all attempts from all students.

  1. Select the Users tab again.
  2. Select the checkbox next to the First Name, Last Name column heading (this selects all student names).
  3. Publish Feedback to publish the updated scores to the Grade Book.

Labeled screenshot of the Grade Quiz page default Users tab, with red boxes around 1. the Users tab, 2. the checkbox next to the First Name, Last Name column, and 3. the Publish Feedback link towards the top of the page.