This document provides an overview of how to use the grader tool in Moodle to assign grades and provide feedback to students. It discusses adding and editing assignments, setting parameters, reviewing student submissions, assigning grades using basic or quick grading, viewing grades from the student and teacher perspective, and customizing grader preferences and reports. Key steps include adding an assignment, setting the grading scale and due date, reviewing submissions, assigning grades and feedback to students individually or in bulk, viewing grades as a student, and exporting grade reports.

5. Adding/editing an assignment If you choose “ upload a single file ” a new screen will open where you can enter an assignment name and assignment question/task. See next slide for more details…

6. The grading scale for the assignment is specified here. Choosing a number will become the maximum grade for this assignment . Apart from the numbers, you can provide descriptive text (i.e. Not satisfactory, Satisfactory, Outstanding…) If you will not be giving a grade for the assignment, choose No Grade. Prevent late submissions: Set to "No“, assignments can be submitted after the due date, but will be marked as “late.” Set to "Yes", assignment submissions will be blocked after the due date. Email alert to teachers: Check yes to receive emails when a submission is made. Please make sure to save your preferences : Adding/editing an assignment

10. To grade or mark a submission, click on the “ Grade ” link opposite a particular student's name. A pop-up window will appear, which will contain the grade and a feedback area. See next slide for an example. Basic grading assignments:

11. Once you've reviewed the student's assignment, pick the grade for the assignment from the dropdown list. (You set the scale when you first created the assignment.) You can type your comments in the feedback area. When you're done, click " Save and show next “. This will take you to the next student. Basic grading assignments: Pop-up window

15. Let’s review what students see... Grader...

16. This is the confidential Student View of a graded assignment.

17. This is the confidential Student View of all assignments for the course.

18. Let’s review what the teacher will see and how to generate an Excel report of grades. Grader...

19. This is the Teacher view of the Grader report. You can sort students by first name or surname and see the status of submissions and grades. At the bottom right, you can also check “allow quick grading” for multiple entries.

20. This is the Teacher View that you will see within the Grader report. You can export your Grader report to an Excel sheet in simple text.format (.txt). To do so, go to the dropdown menu on the top left of the grader report. “ Choose an action ”. Select “ Export to Excel spreadsheet ” and choose the “ grade items to be included ” and click download.

23. Grader report: This tab opens to a default page view of the Grader report (see below). To make changes to the grade preferences, click on the My report Preferences tab.

24. Preferences: The “My report preferences” tab enables teachers to set the grader report display. General Quick grading: Allows for ease in entering assigned grades for all students/participants on the same screen. Show Quick feedback: This does the same, but allows for typed in feedback. Students per page: This sets the number of students displayed per page in the grader report. If left empty, the site default will display 10 students per page. Aggregation position: To show this option (and other advanced settings) click the "Show/Hide advanced" button to the right. Options will appear as: Report default (set as Last) First - the course total column is the first column in the grader report Last - the course total column is the last column in the grader report Click on this icon for further details about how to set other preferences

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