Grading

Customize Grading

There are three elements that can be included in the activity grade: instructor and/or teaching team evaluations, peer ratings, and/or student participation. You can also assign teaching team members to a set of students for grading.

Option 1: Instructor and/or Teaching Team Evaluations:

1. Click on Instructor and/or teaching team evaluations. 
   
   
2. To add an assessment, click on the Add Assessment button. Choose one of the assessment types (hyperlink to assess phase set up section). It will be added to this section. Alternatively, you can import an assessment that you have used previously in peerScholar. Click on Import. You will be presented with a table with two tabs: activity assessments and all assessments. Select the assessment you want, you can select multiple assessment if you wish. Click Import. Your selections will now be added to this section.
   
   
3. Once you have an assessment in the instructor and/or teaching team evaluation section, you can assign points to it. Click on the points area and enter the points you wish the assessment to be worth.
   
   
4. (Optional). You can enable anonymous instructor grading, if desired.
   
   
5. Your assessments added in this section will appear in the Summary section on the grading page.

Option 2: Peer Ratings:

1. Click on Peer Ratings
   
   
2. Select which peer ratings (Assess, Reflect or both) you would like to add to your activity’s final grade. You then have several options to configure. First select how you wish the peer ratings to be calculated using the dropdown menu, and second click on the points area and enter the points you wish these ratings to be worth.
   
   
3. Your selections from this section will appear in the Summary section on the grading page.

Option 3: Student Participation:

1. Click on Student Participation
   
   
2. Select which phase you would like to use towards points for participation, including any subsections.  Click on the points area and enter the points you wish each selection to be worth.
3. Your selections from this section will appear in the Summary section on the grading page.

Assigning Teaching Assistants

1. Click on the Assign Grading button
2. If you have added teaching assistants to your course, you should see them listed in the table. If you do not see any teaching assistants listed, but there should be some there, you will need to add your assistants first before you can proceed.
3. When teaching assistants are listed, you have three ways to add students to each teaching assistant for grading purposes: Randomize, Bulk Assign or Assign Students. 

Randomize - students in the course will be randomly divided among the number of teaching assistants in your class.

Bulk Assign - this should be used when you have a large set of students who need to be associated with a specific teaching assistant (e.g. students belonging to a tutorial). You should have a CSV file with these students, with the necessary requirements in place (see note below). Click on Bulk Assign. Select your file from your computer. Then click Add Accounts.  Click Save Settings. NOTE: The following elements are required when using Bulk Assign: students must be in the course, you must have/use a matching variable (e.g. email address), and the group that they are apart of has to be in the database and already named.

Assign Students - a list of your students will open and you can manually assign student(s) to each teaching assistant. To assign a student to a teaching assistant click on the + icon next to each students name and select the teaching assistant from the dropdown menu. Click Save Settings. (Note: You can also un-assign students from a teaching assistant in this section).