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Add a grading scheme to your questions

Brooke Henshall
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error_outline Your ability to perform this action depends on the privilege settings of your school.

The grading scheme is dependent on the question type. All closed-ended questions have their own type of grading scheme. Listed below are the closed question types that can be used. Click on the question type to find out how to add a grading scheme to each closed-ended question type.

Open-ended question types can be graded by using the grading methods, points per criterion, slider or rubrics with levels. Listed below are the open-ended question types that can be used.

To add a grading scheme to open question types, follow the steps below:

  1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar. 
  4. Select your assignment or use the search bar. 
  5. Click the tab Grading scheme.
  6. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.
  7. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  8. Click the dropdown menu Grading type* and choose your method.
  9. Click the more_vert-icon for more grading options.
  10. Click Save.


Grading methods:

Points per criterion

With points per criterion, you can specify the steps a student needs to perform in order to get to the correct answer. To use the grading points per criterion, follow the steps below.

  1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar. 
  4. Select your assignment or create a new assignment. 
  5. Click Grading scheme in the menu at the top.
  6. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.
  7. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  8. Click the dropdown menu Grading type* and choose Points per criterion. 
  9. Set the maximum number of points.
  10. Fill in the model answer if necessary.
  11. Click Save.
  12. Click the add-icon.
  13. Set the number of points and fill in the criterion description. 
  14. Click Save. 
  15. Repeat this for all criteria

You can use the Calculate points button to calculate the maximum points. The points of all the criteria will be summed up automatically or you can manually set the maximum number of points. 

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Slider

With a slider, you can manually award the number of points between zero and the maximum points of the question. To use the grading method slider, follow the steps below.

  1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar. 
  4. Select your assignment or create a new assignment. 
  5. Click Grading scheme in the menu at the top.
  6. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.
  7. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  8. Click the dropdown menu Grading type* and choose Slider.
  9. Set the maximum number of points. 
  10. Fill in the model answer if necessary.
  11. Click Save.

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Rubrics with levels

If you use a rubric, you have the possibility to define levels (for example insufficient - sufficient - good), include a description and add points to each level. You can select one level when grading. This is the main difference between points per criteria and rubrics with levels, as for criteria you can select multiple (or all) criteria.

  1. Click the domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar. 
  4. Select your assignment or create a new assignment. 
  5. Click Grading scheme in the menu at the top.
  6. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.
  7. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  8. Click the dropdown menu Grading type* and choose Rubric with levels.
  9. Fill in the Weight* and the Maximum points*.
  10. Fill in the model answer if necessary.
  11. Click Save.
  12. Click the add-icon.
  13. Fill in the Level name*. 
  14. Set the number of points.
  15. Fill in the evaluation criterion description.
  16. Click Save
  17. Repeat this for all levels.

You can use the Calculate points button to calculate the maximum points. Ans will then add the points from the highest level here. Alternatively, you can manually set the maximum number of points. 

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