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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
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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.

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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.

Screenshot: open manual grading

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.

Screenshot: enter comment and marks

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.

Screenshot: open quiz attempts

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.

Screenshot: list of quiz attempts highlighting the links to the grading of one quiz attepmt

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.

Screenshot: list of quiz attempts highlighting the link to the grading of one qestion for one student

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.

Screenshot: individual grading - link

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.

Screenshot: individual grading - input fields for comment and mark

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").

Screehshot: review options

Further information

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