Grading a Handwritten Assignment

In this guide:

• Reviewing and grading answer groups
• Grading individual answers

When you're ready to start grading, the grading dashboard will list all the questions of the assignment and the grading progress for each question.

Reviewing and grading answer groups

If you select the Start Grading button at the bottom right, the grading process will walk you through each question sequentially.

First, you will be asked to review your answer groups, and then you will be asked to grade them. This process will be repeated for each question where you have decided to grade by group. This guidance covers the Reviewing and Grading steps but you may need to skip around to find guidance for the exact workflow you are using to grade each question.

How you grade answers will depend on the grading method chosen at assignment setup.

Before grading answer groups, a critical step is to review that the answers have been grouped correctly by the auto-grouping process. This process is to ensure that the same answers have been grouped together for each question. Each group should contain a collection of the exact same answer so that a group of answers can be graded at once.

Depending on the type of question the answer group belongs to, answers may or may not have been automatically grouped. Math fill-in-the-blank and Text fill-in-the-blank type answers are grouped automatically, but the Other question type requires the manual creation of answer groups. Use the links below to find the relevant guidance for your workflow.

• Reviewing answers belonging to the "Math", "Text", and "Multiple Choice" question-types
• Reviewing answers belonging to the "Other" question type
• Grading answer groups

Reviewing answers belonging to the "Math", "Text", and "Multiple Choice" question-types

On the Answer Groups page, you can see each group of answers belonging to a particular question. Each answer group will be marked with an Answers Need Review tag at the top right corner to indicate that they have yet to be reviewed.

Answers to Math question types will be automatically assigned a name, which will allow you to know at a glance what answer that group contains.

In the below screenshot, Group 1 has been automatically assigned the contents of its answer as a name: sin 𝑥.

For other types of answers, such as multiple choice or text fill-in-the-blank, answer groups will not be named. In these cases, it may be helpful to add your own group name by selecting the three-dots menu and choosing Edit Group Name.

To begin stepping through each answer group, select the Start Reviewing button at the bottom right of the page. This will take you to the first answer group, and show you all of the answers that have been placed into this group by the AI. All of the answers here should be exactly the same.

You can select the expand icon in order to view a larger version of the answer if it is difficult to see. If you’d like to move an answer to a new group, you can select the box above it and then choose Ungroup to ungroup the answer, or Move To to move it to another group.

When you have confirmed that all of the answers are the same, select the Confirm All Answers button in the middle of the page. Then, select the Next Group button at the bottom right. Repeat this process for each group.

Once you have reviewed all answer groups, select the Review Ungrouped button to review any outstanding ungrouped answers. If you need to create a new answer group, select the Create Group button at the top right, and optionally name that group. Then, you can select some or all ungrouped answers and move to a new group. If there are any other answers you’d like to leave ungrouped, select the Confirm Ungrouped button.

After you have successfully reviewed and confirmed all of the answer groups, you can select the Start Grading button at the bottom to move into the grading process for your current answer group.

Reviewing answers belonging to the "Other" question type

For the Other question type, answers will be Ungrouped but you can manually group the answers by selecting Create Group from the sidebar and then adding the same answers to the Groups.

Once you have created your first answer group and selected all of one type of answer, scroll to the top of the answers section and select the Move To button. Then, select the Answer Group you’d like to move them to.

Once you have successfully reviewed and confirmed all of the answer groups, you can select the Start Grading button at the bottom to move into the grading process for your current answer group.

Grading answer groups

The grading process will take you through each group of answers one by one.

On the left side of the screen, you will see an outline around the current question. When Pan is selected, clicking and dragging the assignment will move the focus of the page. When Annotation is selected, you can click anywhere on the assignment to leave a text comment.

On the right side of the screen is the Scoring Criteria section. This is where you can grade the question according to your scoring criteria. By default, there are two criteria: Correct and Incorrect. You can add more criteria by selecting the Add Scoring Criteria button. For example, you could create an additional Scoring Criteria named “Partial Credit” and assign half of the total points to it.

To mark a question with a criteria, select the checkbox beside the desired criterion in the side panel. The Total Points section at the top of the page will automatically update.

For more information about scoring, view our Scoring criteria and settings guidance.

To proceed to the next ungraded question, select Next Ungraded.

Grading individual answers

1. From the Grading Dashboard, select a question that has the grading method set to Individual. You will immediately be taken to the grading page to begin grading.
2. To create a list of scoring criteria for grading:
   1. Select Add Scoring Criteria. Each scoring criteria will be given a number in the order they were created.
   2. Add the Points.
   3. Add a Description of the scoring criteria.
3. Repeat step 2 to create as many scoring items as you need for grading the question.
4. Once you have scoring items, you can select the checkbox next to the scoring criteria you want to apply to the answer. This submission is now graded and the student's score should be updated.
5. Select Next to move to the next submission irrespective of whether it’s been graded.
6. Select Next Ungraded to move to the next ungraded submission.
7. Save Changes.