Online-Test: Freitextfragen manuell bewerten
Online quiz: grade essay questions manually
Goals:
This guide shows you how to manually grade essay questions in online quizzes. You can display the answers of all students or call up only individual answers or individual quiz attempts. Furthermore, you will learn how to make feedback visible to the students.
Difficulty: easy
Valid form Moodle version 4.5
12 Steps:

Preparation
First, create a quiz as described in the guide "Create an online quiz" and add at least one essay question. After the students have completed the quiz, click on the quiz.

1. Manual grading of all answers to a question
You can view the answers of all students to a specific essay question, grade all answers, and save the grades all at once.

1.1. Display all answers to a question
To do this, click the "Results" tab at the top of the quiz and then select the "Manual grading" option from the drop down menu at the top left. In the following list of questions, click either "grade" or "grade all" for the question whose answers you want to view and grade.


1.2. Enter grades
You can now adapt the display of the answer list via the "Options" at the top. Then enter the marks and, if desired, comments in the corresponding input fields under the respective answers and finally save them using the "Save and show next" button.

2. Manual grading of individual quiz attempts or answers
You can also display a quiz attempt of only one person or the answer of a person to a specific question in the quiz.

2.1. Display the list of quiz attempts
To do this, first click on the quiz and then on the "Attempts" link.


2.2. View individual quiz attempt
In the list of quiz attempts, you can now click on "Review attempt" under the name of a student or on "Not yet graded" in the "Grade" column to display all answers for this quiz attempt. Note that this will display all quiz questions, not just the essay questions.


2.3. View individual answer
To display only a single answer to a specific essay question of a quiz attempt, click on "Requires grading" in the corresponding table cell.


2.4. Display grading window
Then click the "Make comment or overwrite mark" link below the answer field of the essay question you want to grade.


2.5. Enter grade and feedback
Enter the mark and, if desired, a comment in the corresponding input fields and save the changes by pressing the Enter key on your keyboard.


3. Make feedback visible for students
If you have entered comments, students will only see them if the quiz is visible and the "Specific feedback" option is ticked in the "Review options" section of the quiz settings for the desired review time (for more about review options in general see guide "Online quiz: configure review options").

Further information
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, please contact the relevant support facility at your university.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/