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Once the deadline for students to submit has passed, click on the assignment this . This will bring up the Grading summary which will show the number of participants and submissions. Click on View all submissions to view the submissions table.

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The marking/submissions table lists all students and their submissions. If blind marking ‘anonymous submissions’ is enabled submissions are identified by a number unique to this assignment. N.B. Those with a Manager role can view student identities even when blind marking ‘anonymous submissions’ is enabled.

The table has a variety of filters and columns - see more details on the submissions table guide.

Click on the red Grade button to mark an individual piece of work. It is also possible to enter marks and feedback directly into the submissions table for . For more information see our quick grade grading guide.

Step 4: Grade an individual assignment

Clicking on Grade will bring up a marking screen with grading options on the right hand side. If the student submitted a PDF file the individual piece of work in a window on the left hand side. If the student submitted a word document or did not submit anything this window will be blankWord document and the conversion to PDF was unsuccessful, this window will be blank. The window will also be blank if the student did not submit anything.

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Grade

Depending on your assignment settings you can enter a grade out of 100 or a scale.

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Files can be uploaded and attached for each student. For more details on bulk upload of feedback files see our guide, Provide grades and feedback with bulk upload of feedback files.

Annotate pdf submission

If the submission is a pdf file then the tool bar at the top of the page can be used to annotate directly.

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Select the text comment icon (blue star) and then click on the doc where you would like to add a text box. Click and drag the mouse to expand out the box and then you can type comments directly into the box using your keyboard. Clicking on the right hand corner will bring up the option to either delete comment or Add to quicklist. Add to quicklist if allows you would like to save a text comment to use again or delete comment if want to delete the text box.
Once you have finished click outside the text box and it will reduce down to a speech bubble which can be expanded.

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Select this icon to choose the colour that you would like the text comment box to be. The drop down list includes; pink, yellow, green, blue, clear and white.

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Hand tool

This simply allows you to move the PDF around in the window.

Arrow tool

Clicking on the arrow iconck icon will allow you to then click and drag comments to another place on the document.

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Square Shape (blue star)

Allows a square/rectangle to be added to the document - use the mouse to place and drag it to the size required. Select the colour from the colour selector icon (see below).

Circle shape (blue star)

Allows a circle/oval to be added to the document - use the mouse to place and drag it to the size required. Select the colour from the colour selector icon (see below).

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Click on the icon to select one of the designs from the drop down list. The four options are a : tick, cross, sad face , and happy face. Use the mouse to click where on the document you would like to add the stamp.

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Marking workflow is enabled by default. To release the marks using marking workflow see below.

When you are ready to release marks to students, select go to the submissions table. Select the submissions for which you want to use marking workflow using the Select box to left of each submission – to select all submissions, click the Select all box under Select. Scroll to the bottom of the page and, from the drop-down menu With selected…, select Set marking workflow state and Go. You will be asked to confirm, click ok.

Select Released from the drop down options and then save Save changes. At this stage (and earlier stages) you can choose to Notify students by selecting Yes to generate an email.

Students will then be able to review their grades and feedback.

N.B. If blind marking ‘anonymous submissions’ is in use with marking workflow, the grades are released regardless of whether student identities have been revealed. However, you and other markers are likely to want to reveal identities at some point. If you cannot find the option Reveal student identities in the Grading action drop-downmenu at the top of the submissions table, you will need to ask someone with Teacher (Editor) or higher access to do it.

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