Perform manual grading

An activity that contains questions that require manual grading means that you must define a grade for the student's response in the Gradebook.

These questions require manual grading because a correct answer can't be predicted or calculated by Möbius.

Question types that require manual grading are:

Essay questions (check out Manually grade an essay question)
Document upload questions (check out Manually grade a document upload question)
Organic chemistry questions (check out Manually grade an organic chemistry question)

Manual grading is performed in the Gradebook and the manual grading features are only accessible after a Gradebook search is performed.

You can perform manual grading at the:

Question level — View all student responses to a single question.
Activity level — View a single student's responses to all questions within a specific activity.

The Grade Manager has similar functionality to the traditional Gradebook when performing manual grading, but has improved navigation between student responses within an activity through the Activity Grading View.

Manually grade student responses

To manually grade student responses (either at the question level or activity level):

After performing a Gradebook search, decide whether you want to manually grade student responses at the question level or the activity level.
TIP: To grade student responses at the activity level using the Grade Manager's Activity Grading View, check out Access the Activity Grading View, and follow the steps described.
TIP: To grade student responses at the question level:
1. Click the activity name that contains the question that you want to view from the results table of your original Gradebook search.
2. Click the question number that you want to manually grade for all students.
3. You're navigated to the Question Details page where each student's response for the selected question is displayed. Resume at step 2 of Manually grade student responses
TIP: To grade student responses at the activity level with the traditional Gradebook:
1. Click on a student's achieved grade listed for the activity that requires manual grading from the results table of your original Gradebook search.
2. You're navigated to the Question Details page for the student's attempt at the activity. The selected student's responses are displayed for each question within the activity. Resume at step 2 of Manually grade student responses.
NOTE: If you click a student's user detail (Example — last name) from the results table of your original Gradebook search, you're navigated to the student's Attempt Summary page for the activity. The status of the student's attempt will display the pending icon and the completed icon if the student's attempt has been submitted but is still pending manual grading.
Click Details to manually grade the attempt at the activity level.
If the pending icon is located alongside the in progress icon, the student's attempt has not yet been submitted for manual grading.
You're navigated to the Question Details page for a question (if manually grading at the question level) or a student's responses for all questions in an activity (if manually grading at the activity level with the traditional Gradebook). Each question and associated responses are compartmentalized into Question panes. You can scroll to each Question pane of the results. A question that requires manual grading (regardless of question level or activity level) can be recognized by:
Inaccurate overall grade — The overall grade that's displayed isn't accurate until you've completed your manual grading (calculated by E).
Fully Graded— Indicates that the question isn't fully graded and a response requires manual grading.
Parts Ungraded n — Numerical value that indicates how many responses require manual grading within the Question pane.
Ungraded response tag — Label that indicates that a response within the question requires manual grading.
Total grade calculation and icon— Red icon and total grade calculation that represent all part grade areas that still require manual grading as 0%.
Framed response component — Yellow frame around each response of a question that requires manual review.
Review the student's response and click the edit part grade icon.
Manually enter a part grade that you want to assign to the student.
NOTE: The weight of the student response component is displayed as the part grade denominator and is defined when the question is authored. Example — If the weight is 5.0, define a part grade of 1 if you want the student's response to be awarded a grade equivalent of 20%.
Click the save grade icon to update the student's part grade for this section of the question and total grade for the question.
A question that has been manually graded will display the following changes:
Updated overall grade — The overall grade that's displayed now represents the student's awarded grade after manual grading has been completed (calculated by E).
Fully Graded— Indicates that the question has been fully graded.
Parts Ungraded 0 — Numerical value of 0 that indicates that no responses still require manual grading.
Manually graded response tag— The label updates to indicate that a grade has been assigned to the student response through manual grading.
Total grade calculation and correctness icon — Icon status and total grade calculation for the entire question based on the awarded part grade values.
Part grade correctness icon — Icon that indicates whether the student achieved full marks or not for the part grade area.
NOTE: The total grade correctness icon will display the correct icon if the student achieves full marks for the entire question, or the incorrect/partially correct icon if the student gets the entire question incorrect or only partially correct.
NOTE: The part grade correctness icon will display the correct icon if the student achieves full marks for their, or the incorrect/partially correct icon if the student gets the question incorrect or only partially correct.
The student's response is now fully graded and their official manually graded score is reflected in the overall grade field.