Assignments and Rubrics Assignments... 2 Create a MyUni assignment... 2 Use Student Preview... 2 View and grade a MyUni assignment... 4 Anonymous Marking... 5 Delegated Marking... 6 Mark delegated assignments... 6 Reconcile grades in the Grade Centre... 7 Rubrics... 8 Create a rubric... 9 Add a rubric to an assessment item... 9 Mark an assignment using a rubric... 9 Date: December 2014 TRIM Reference: D2013/283868 Version: 2.0 Copyright Technology Services - http://www.adelaide.edu.au/its/training/
Assignments The Assignment tool allows students to submit their assignments electronically, add their own comments and then retrieve their marked work with instructor comments. When creating a MyUni Assignment, a column is automatically added to the Grade Centre. Assignments can be marked inline using a MyUni Rubric (if added) or downloaded for offline grading. Create a MyUni assignment 1. Navigate to the content area where you would like to place a link to the Assignment. 2. Select Assessments > Assignment. 3. In the Assignment Information section, enter a name for the assignment and any instructions for the students. 4. In the Assignment Files section, attach a file if required. 5. In the Due Dates section, set a due date if required. 6. In the Grading section, enter the maximum score for the assignment. Decide whether to add a rubric. In the Submission Details section, decide whether this is an individual or group assignment (in which case, any member of the group will be able to submit and review the assignment). Decide the number of attempts students are allowed to make when submitting an assignment. In the Grading Options section, select the required options for anonymous or delegated marking as described on page 5. In the Display of Grades section, select the desired options to display grades to students, including Primary display (visible to students in My Grades) and Secondary display (optional, to display to instructors in the Grade Centre only). 7. In the Availability section, make the assignment available. Enter a date range if you wish to limit the availability of the assignment. 8. Click Submit. Use Student Preview Student Preview allows instructors to interact with their courses exactly as a student would. It can be used to view an assessment item from a student s perspective, including the ability to submit an assignment or complete a test, and see the result in My Grades. An instructor can easily transition into and out of their student preview account. When an instructor selects student preview, a user account is generated with instructor s username appended with _previewuser. The preview user and data are visible to all users enrolled in the course, including students. Other users can interact with the preview user. 2 December 2014 The University of Adelaide
When finished with student preview the system can either remove the account or keep all interactions. 1. Click. A bar across the top of the page indicates that Student Preview mode is on. 2. Navigate to the newly created assessment item and upload a submission. 3. Click Exit Preview to return to instructor mode. The following dialog box will be displayed: Select the Keep the preview user and all data option if you want to mark the submission and view the result as a student in My Grades. Click Continue. When you save the preview user account, the dot in the middle of the Enter Student Preview function icon will turn green, indicating the preview user account is available for use. 4. Once the submission has been marked, you can return to Student Preview mode and view the result in My Grades. To remove all trace of the preview user from the course, select the Delete the preview user and all data option when exiting Student Preview. The University of Adelaide December 2014 3
View and grade a MyUni assignment 1. Select Control Panel > Grade Centre > Full Grade Centre. 2. An exclamation mark icon displays in the column for your assignment to indicate that a student has submitted an assignment that requires marking. To view the attempt, click and select an attempt. 3. You can mark the assignment online or download a copy to mark offline. Navigate through the assignment Add Text Comment Area Comment Point Comment 4 December 2014 The University of Adelaide
4. Grade the student s attempt. 5. Enter Feedback, which the student will see, and click Add Notes, which only instructors can see (both are optional). 6. Click Submit if you are ready for the student to see their result, or Save as Draft if you want to revisit your comments later before making them available to the student. Anonymous Marking Instructors can hide student names from submitted assignments for anonymous grading and disable on a given date or after all submissions are graded. 1. View an existing assignment by clicking and selecting Edit. 2. In the Grading section, Click Grading Options. 3. Click in the Enable Anonymous Marking checkbox to select it. 4. Enter a date on which the students names will be displayed, or select the After all submissions are graded option. The University of Adelaide December 2014 5
Delegated Marking Instructors can delegate grading to multiple graders in the course. Graders may be assigned to grade: None All Submissions Random Set. The grader is assigned to grade a random set of the selected number of students. If multiple graders are assigned to grade a random set, students are distributed evenly before any student is included in multiple random sets. Groups. The grader grades all students who are part of the selected course group(s). View Settings determines whether the grader can view the scores, feedback and notes provided by other graders from within Inline Grading. The Reconcile Grades column displays an icon if the user has the ability to review all provisional grades, and define the student's final grade for the assignment. 1. View an existing assignment by clicking and selecting Edit. 2. In the Grading section, Click Grading Options. 3. Click in the Enable Delegated Marking checkbox to select it. 4. Click on the drop-down arrow next to Show and choose All possible graders. 5. For each instructor that you wish to mark this assignment, click on the drop-down menu under Submissions to grade, and select one of the following: - None - All submissions (default) - Random set. 6. Under View Settings, tick the box to enable viewing option (other graders scores, etc) if required. Mark delegated assignments Graders who have been assigned items to mark can view their delegated students in the Needs Marking view of the Grade Centre. Students with submissions to be marked be marked using delegated marking are not visible in the Grade Centre. 1. Click to expand the Grade Centre heading. 2. Click Needs Marking. 3. Any assessment items waiting to be marked will be displayed here. Use the inline marking feature to enter a mark and feedback as required. When you click Submit, the next item awaiting marking will be displayed. 6 December 2014 The University of Adelaide
Reconcile grades in the Grade Centre If you use delegated marking, once a submission has been marked, it needs to be reconciled. 1. View the Full Grade Centre. Any submissions awaiting reconciliation will contain a symbol in the column for the delegated assessment. 2. In the column heading, click and select Reconcile Grades. 3. Items awaiting reconciliation will contain a symbol in the Final Grade column. 4. Either click on the grade to override, or click to select one of the following: - Choose average - Highest - Lowest. 5. Click to view the instructors who have been assigned to the assessment item. You can view how many items they have marked, the average mark they have allotted, and you can click the Email link to send them a message if required. Click the Grader Progress page. to close The University of Adelaide December 2014 7
Rubrics A rubric is a tool that can assist in marking a variety of assessment types, including essays, group projects and oral presentations. When a rubric is agreed upon and communicated prior to the student's work being completed, the grading process is clear and transparent to all involved. Rubrics are also very useful when more than one person marks the work of different students, for example when different tutors mark the work submitted by their own classes. A rubric lists evaluation criteria for an assignment. Rubrics can help students organise their efforts to meet the requirements of an assignment. Instructors can use rubrics to explain their evaluations to students. It is useful to create rubrics before you add assessment items. Rubrics that you create can be used across different assessment items. Rubrics can also be exported and imported into different courses. For example you may wish to create a single rubric for both a written assignment and an oral presentation, and use it in different courses. Rubrics can be added when you create an assessment item or later via the grade centre column. In MyUni, rubrics are made up of rows and columns. The rows correspond to the various criteria of an assignment. The columns correspond to the level of achievement expressed for each criterion. A description and point value for each cell in the rubric define the evaluation and score of an assignment. There is no limit to the number of rubrics that can be created. Rubrics can be used with the following MyUni tools: Assignments Blogs Discussion boards Journals Wikis 8 December 2014 The University of Adelaide
Create a rubric 1. From the Control Panel, in the Course Tools section, select Rubrics. 2. Select Create Rubric. 3. In the Rubric Information section, type a Name and optional Description. 4. Adjust the Rubric Type: No Points - feedback only Points - single point value for each Level of Achievement Point Range - range of values for each Level of Achievement Percentage - flexible, depending on each assessment's possible points. Weightings per criteria can also be given. 5. In the Rubric Detail section, add or delete Criteria (rows) and Levels of Achievement (columns) as required. 6. Add a description for each criteria and level of achievement. 7. Click Submit. Note: Once a rubric has been used for grading, it cannot be edited. Copy the rubric from the Rubrics page in order to create a duplicate rubric that can be edited. Or use the Create From Existing option when adding a rubric. Add a rubric to an assessment item 1. Either edit the assessment item or select Control Panel > Grade Centre then select Edit Column Information from the required column. 2. Select the button. 3. Select the required Rubrics (or Create New Rubric or Create From Existing). 4. Click to select if and when you want to show the Rubrics to the students. 5. Click Submit. Mark an assignment using a rubric 1. Select Control Panel > Grade Centre > Full Grade Centre. 2. An exclamation mark icon displays in the column for your assignment to indicate that a student has submitted an assignment that requires marking. To view the attempt, click and select an attempt. 3. Click on the drop-down arrow under the grade entry field to access the rubric as shown below: The University of Adelaide December 2014 9
Click on this bar to access the rubric 4. Mark inline using the rubric by clicking on the link or click to grade with the rubric open in another window. Click on this button to mark using the rubric. Select the link to view the rubric inline. 10 December 2014 The University of Adelaide
5. Select the appropriate level of achievement for each criteria. The example below is for inline marking using the rubric. Raw Total is calculated from the selected rubric criteria Enter a point score here if you do not want to use the Raw Total 6. The Raw Total is automatically calculated. If you wish you can enter a point score that will override the raw total. 7. Click Save Rubric. The University of Adelaide December 2014 11
8. The grade calculated from the rubric is inserted in the Attempt field. Edit grade if required by clicking in the field. This grade will override the automatically calculated rubric grade. 9. Enter Feedback, which the student will see, and click Add Notes, which only instructors can see (both are optional). 10. Click Submit. The assignment closes and the grade is added to the Grade Centre. 12 December 2014 The University of Adelaide