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The Grading Stage

Learn about the grading stage, how to edit student grades, how to manage and export grade disputes, and how to mark an activity as complete.

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Students will have their scores hidden during the Create, Evaluate, and the beginning of the Feedback Stage.

  • Immediately after submitting their feedback in the Feedback Stage, students will be able to see their grades and submit disputes.

  • Students will not be able to edit their Feedback remarks or grades after viewing their numeric scores to limit bias.

Grading Stage

In the Grading Stage, you can:

Action Items

The Action Items tab in the grading stage allows instructors to quickly identify and manage pending tasks that need their attention.

By clicking "View Details," instructors are directed to a dedicated page that lists all outstanding items for the activity, making it easier to take timely action.

Edit Grades

There are two ways that instructors are able to edit creation scores after the evaluation stage has passed.

  1. Manually adjust each criterion score

  2. Applying an adjustment to the overall score

Manually Adjust Each Criterion Score

Select the name of the student in the Creation List and click the Edit Score button under the Overall Creation Score heading. You will now be able to specify the number of points you feel is appropriate for each criterion. Your grading will take precedence over the evaluators' scores.

NOTE: Manually editing a student’s creation score through adjusting the score on each criterion will result in micro-calibration and will adjust the student's grading power, AFTER the activity has been marked as complete.

Creation Tab View:

Evaluation Tab View:

Feedback Tab View:

Apply an Adjustment to the Overall Score

Alternatively, you may choose to select Apply Adjustment, which will allow you to adjust a total creation score by a specific percentage instead of editing the score in each rubric category.
​*** NOTE: This feature will NOT impact the evaluation score or grading power of evaluators.

Either way, after changing a grade, the activity’s Student List will indicate this under the Create column as well as the Issues column with the green book symbol.

Grade Disputes

Students may dispute their creation score during the Grading stage, but they need to provide an explanation.

To see and export a list of grade disputes:

  1. Click on the 'Activity Card'

  2. Select 'View By' then 'Dispute'

  3. The dispute table will show you a list of disputes, when they were created, and the dispute status. You can export a csv file of all disputes using the 'Export Disputes' button.

To resolve grade disputes:

  1. Select the student from the student list

  2. Select the ‘Creation’ Tab

  3. Under the ‘Overall Creation Score’ heading, select ‘Manage Dispute’

  4. View the student’s reason for the dispute

  5. Edit the students’ Creation grade if appropriate

    1. NOTE: Be sure to press 'Save' after editing a student's grade. Resolving the dispute will not automatically save the updated grade.

  6. Leave a comment explaining your decision to edit the students’ grade or not edit their grade

  7. Select ‘Resolve Dispute’

8. Students will receive a notification via email or text message when their grade has been resolved

Marking Activities as Complete

After you have resolved all issues and spotlighted any innovative student creations or evaluations that you feel went above and beyond, you should click ‘Mark As Complete’ in the upper right corner of the activity page.

  • This will release the final grades to the students

  • You can always edit activity scores even if the activity has been marked as complete.

  • Activities with no pending disputes and/or flagged comments will automatically transition to Complete 14 days after the Feedback stage ends.

NOTE: It’s important to mark activities as complete in order to achieve student grading power calibration after each one. If you don’t mark activities as complete, grading power will not calibrate for the next activity and this may result in inaccurate future creation scores.

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