2. Questions Students Ask About Assessments “Is this graded?” “What grade did I get on my quiz?”
3. Questions Instructors Ask About Assessments “What do I do if a student says she is having trouble taking a quiz?” “How do students know what their grade is?” “Why isn’t the grade I entered showing up in the course gradebook?”
4. Learning Objectives By the end of this presentation, you should be able… To use a Discussion Forum scoring rubric To identify the significance of key Assessment settings To navigate the Gradebook with grace and aplomb
30. How to Grade Discussion Forums Use a scoring rubric to provide an automatic grade calculation But remember, people first, technology second – don’t let the scoring rubric algorithm usurp your professional judgment
Key Point: Gradebook Items are NOT automatically created or updated from lesson items – including Assessments, Discussion Forums, and Drop Boxes
Make sure you understand standard configuration of assessments:*
Please note that changing the point value of a question or multiple questions in an assessment DOES NOT change the point value of the assessment in the Gradebook.
Key Point: Gradebook Items are NOT automatically created or updated from lesson items – including Assessments, Discussion Forums, and Drop Boxes
Goals of Discussion Forums (WHY they’re graded): Provide students with a sense of a community of learning Help students connect what they are studying with their experience Give instructors a way to make informal assessments of students’ progress toward course objectives
Note that the column headings are sortable. Emphasize Copy rubric scores to grades button.“What do the column headings mean?”• User Name: The users name. Clicking the user’s name creates a new window with all of that users posts displayed.• Total posts: The total number of new posts and replies submitted.• Posts: The total number of new posts submitted.• Replies: The total number of replies submitted.• Peer replies: The total number of peer replies to that users posts.• Earned / Possible / %: The total points earned, total points possible, and percentage earned as determined by the instructors scores.• Grading Rubric Points: The points earned as calculated by the scoring rubric.• Gradebook Grade (#/100): The actual grade to be entered in the gradebook.May be entered manually, or you may use the Copy rubric scores to grades button to automatically transfer the Grading Rubric Points to the GradebookGrade column.
* Remember: You’re in the driver’s seat; understand what’s possible with the tools, but only use what you need to use to support learner success* Pretty much everything you need is available via the Settings and Utilities menus
