Points and feedback

Choice questions are marked automatically, but explanations, written answers and uploads need you. Grading is where you give those points and add a short comment to each answer. Students see both next to their own answer once you finish grading.

1. Open Grading in the sidebar and choose the presentation, or open the presentation’s session summary and choose Grading.

2. Read each answer. Automatically marked answers already have their points.

3. To give or change points, click the points next to the answer, type the number and click elsewhere to save. Max points shows what the question is worth.

4. Under Feedback, click Add feedback and write your comment. It is saved when you click elsewhere.

5. When every answer has been reviewed, click Finish Grading. The dialog lists whose results will be published; confirm with Finish Grading.

If you change the points of an automatically marked answer, Revert to automatic grading restores the automatic points.

Finishing grading publishes the results. Students who received grades are notified, and under My Grades they see their points and your feedback next to each of their answers.

Finishing applies to every student in the presentation, graded or not. If some answers still need points, the dialog says how many; review them first.

If a student changes an answer after you have finished, the answer is marked Answer changed after grading and waits for you again. Reopen opens grading for the presentation again if you need to change something yourself.

• Write feedback that says what is already right and what to add, for example: “The idea is right, but explain how it links to photosynthesis.”

• Give partial points for a partly correct explanation, and let the feedback name what was missing.

• Group answers puts identical answers together so you can mark them in one go, which saves time on short answers.

• Students can find their results under My Grades only if they answered while signed in.