User:DukeEgr93/Grading Electronically

This document will cover how to grade students' work electronically.

Making Groups

It will probably be easier to find your people in the assignments list if you make a group for them. Once grading groups are assigned (after drop add) you can make your own group as follows:

• Log in to Sakai and go to the course page
• Click the Site Info button at left
• In the buttons near the top of the site info page, click Manage Groups
• From that page, click Create New Group
• In the group title, make it "Lab # L" where # is your section and L is your letter. For instance, the TA first in the alphabet on Tuesday late afternoons would be "Lab 3 A"
• For the membership, carefully find each of your students and click the > button to move them into the group.
• Once your whole group is in the right-hand window, click the Add button at the bottom of the screen.
• From this point forward, whenever you are viewing assignments, your lab group should be an option in the View dropdown menu.

Process

• Go to Assignments, figure out which assignment you want to grade, and click the Grade link for it.
• Find a student you are grading and click their name.
• Download the Submitted Attachment(s) to your local machine where you will grade. Maybe add the word "Graded" to the filename
• Grade electronically (see below) - be sure to clearly indicate where things went wrong and how many points were taken off as a result.
• In Sakai for that person, go to Add Attachments and upload the graded version.
• Put the grade in the Grade box.
• In the comments section, write any appropriate comments that would help the student understand what is wrong and how to correct it.
• Be sure to click the Save and Release to Student button

Anecdotes

• Brendon C.: Just using preview (the basic mac PDF viewer) I attached a graded rubric onto the back of their assignment that I downloaded. I then made text notes on their document and put the grades on the rubric and uploaded that. It wasn't perfect but it wasn't too big of a hassle.
• Brody K.: I used FoxIT (very quick download) to edit the rubric as I graded and just uploaded it to the attachments. The "Typewriter" button on the toolbar works just like a regular text box. It was pretty painless to click and enter scores and comments. It does take a bit longer than grading a physical copy, due to the constant switching back and forth between student's lab, lab solution, rubric, and Sakai, but it was fairly straightforward. It does generate a lot of files for each TA to keep track of (10 rubrics and 10 student labs for every assignment)
• Dr. G: I use Adobe Acrobat, but that costs money for me. For you, Acrobat may be free with the Creative Cloud OIT Download