Grading

Grade fairly, handle late work and answer a learner who disagrees

Mark with a rubric, see every learner against every item in a gradebook, set your own late-work rules and let learners ask for a second look, with each step recorded.

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Gradebook with each learner's marks on three assignments and an overall outcome

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Rubrics and the gradebook

  • Rubrics

    Build criteria with levels and points, choose a level for each, add a comment and see the total. Criteria and points are fixed once work has been graded, so marks stay comparable.

  • The gradebook

    Each learner against every quiz and assignment in a batch, with an outcome: passed once every item you count towards it is passed. There is no weighted total, by design.

  • Learners see their marks

    Learners have their own marks page, and the learner report shows the outcome.

  • Comments on lines of code

    On a coding assignment or quiz, comment on a line or a range of lines of handed-in code. Learners read them with their result. On the Training plans.

Grading form with a rubric of three criteria, levels chosen, a comment and a total of 20 out of 24

Late work and extensions

  • Your rule, with exceptions

    Set one rule for the institute: late work accepted or not, a cut-off in days, a penalty for each day and a floor. Any assignment can use its own rule instead.

  • A later date for one learner

    Give one learner an extension on an assignment, or extra time on a batch quiz. Their reminders follow their own date.

  • Waive a penalty

    Staff can waive a penalty when it should not apply. The learner sees the mark before the penalty.

Staff page showing late work with the penalty applied and a form to give a learner more time A learner's graded assignment showing it was handed in two days late and the mark before the late penalty

Regrade requests

  • Learners ask, with a reason

    A learner asks for a mark to be looked at again and says why, within the days you allow, and only where you have switched requests on.

  • You keep or change it

    Staff reply and keep the mark, or change it in the same step. The learner is emailed the reply and sees the outcome, never who answered.

  • A record of each request

    Each request keeps the mark before and after and the reply. Every request is kept, whatever its outcome.

A learner's graded assignment with a regrade request being written A teacher's page showing a regrade request and a box to reply and keep the mark

Images show an imaginary school, Northfield Academy. See also coding assessment, academic integrity and student privacy, or step through the demo. For a department, see The Skill Site for universities.

Questions and answers

Which plans include these?

The gradebook, rubrics, late-work rules, extensions and regrade requests are in every plan, the Teacher plan included. Coding assignments, tests-based marks and comments on lines of code are Training features, so they are in the free trial, the free plan and the Training plans, not the Teacher plan.

Is there an overall weighted grade?

No. The gradebook shows each result and an outcome of passed or not yet, based on the items you choose to count. Weighting is left to you.

Is the default late rule strict?

No. Until you change it, late work is accepted with no penalty and only carries a late marker.

Does it support a campus LMS?

It connects to Moodle 4.5 through LTI 1.3. It has not been tested against Canvas or Brightspace.

Is this a FERPA or HECVAT answer?

No. The security, student data privacy and accessibility pages cover those, and the HECVAT is available on request.

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