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.
• If you have a lab group set up as above, in the View drop down, go ahead and select your group. Otherwise, select your lab section to at least reduce the number of people to just one lab section!
• 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