Use the Activity Grading View

Once you've entered the Activity Grading View of the Grade Manager, you can review and edit your students' grades for the current version of a specific activity.

Grades that have been automatically awarded by Möbius can be reviewed and edited using the panes and functions of the Activity Grading View.

All of your manual grading tasks can also be performed from this view.

Activity Grading View overview

Once you've entered the Grade Manager, the Activity Grading View is displayed:

Question pane — Displays the questions used by the current of the activity and their graded status.

Selection pane — Displays question-specific data and student attempts for the selected question.

Details pane — Displays the response for the viewed attempt.

Grading Manager tools — Tools within the details pane that allow you to preview the question, view grade history, add comments, and edit grades.

Navigate between questions

The Question pane displays all questions within the activity and allows you to navigate between questions for review and grading tasks.

Use the navigation arrows to scroll between questions that aren't in view if your activity has more questions than can be displayed in the Question pane.

Selecting a question from the Question pane:

Highlights the selected question with an underline (and changes it to purple).

Causes the Selection pane to display all student attempts at the selected question.

The Question pane also displays the graded status of the questions within the activity:

Automatically graded — The question has been automatically graded by Möbius and is considered fully graded.

Requires manual grading — The question has at least 1 student response that still requires manual review by an instructor.

Manual grading complete — All responses for all attempts at the question have been manually reviewed and is considered fully graded.

Change the display

You can change the display of the Activity Grading View in several ways:

Click expand in the Question pane to remove the Möbius header to give you more screen space to perform your grading tasks.

Click the Display drop-down list to select what user information you want to be displayed as the student identifier in the Selection pane.
Choose from:
- Name
- Email
- Student ID
- Login

Click on a column header in the Selection pane to toggle between the entries being sorted in ascending or descending order based on that column header.
Click-and-drag the vertical divider between the Selection pane and Details pane to resize these 2 panes as desired.
Select a radio button to control how the student response is displayed within the Details pane:
- Annotated response — Displays the response to a question that has been manually graded (only available if the response has been manually graded).
- Original response — Displays the response as the student would have entered it in the response entry field.
- Unfiltered response — Displays the response as how it's stored in Möbius.

Preview a question

You can preview the version of the question that was seen by your students while reviewing their response.

In the preview window, you can also trial the question that the student would have seen.

To preview a question:

Select the question you want to investigate from the Question pane.
Select the student attempt that you want to investigate from the Selection pane.
TIP: Press Shift + W to navigate up or Shift + S to navigate down the list of student attempts in the Selection pane.
Click the question preview icon from the Grade Manager tools in the Details pane to preview the question as the student would have viewed it during their attempt.
The question is previewed in a new window. The question preview is a snapshot of all aspects of the question that the student would have seen before clicking to submit their response (all components, variables, available hints, and question text). You can also attempt the question yourself.

Grade an individual attempt

Individual student attempts can:

Be awarded a grade (if manual grading is required).
Have their grades edited (if a grade has already been awarded either manually or by Möbius).

You can award or edit grades for individual student attempts by defining the:

Part grade for a specific student response component in a question
Overall grade in the Details pane (using the Grade Manager tools)
Overall grade in the Selection pane

NOTE: Response correctness icons are displayed with each student response and total grade calculation (no correctness icon will be displayed with the total grade calculation if it's overridden by a manual overall grade entry). When a response receives full marks, the correct icon is displayed with the response. If all the student responses for the question are correct, the correct icon is then also displayed with the total grade calculation.

When a student response is incorrect or only partially correct, the incorrect icon is displayed with the response. If at least one of the student's responses is incorrect or only partially correct, the incorrect icon is then also displayed with the total grade calculation.

When a student response requires manual grading, no correctness icon is displayed. If at least one student response component of the question requires a grade to be assigned through manual grading, the incorrect icon is displayed with the total grade calculation.

If a student response requires manual grading, the correctness icon will appear once a grade is manually assigned. The correctness icon for the total grade calculation will then update based on the part grades.

Part grade for one student response

To award or edit the part grade for a specific response in the Grade Manager:

Click the Edit Part Grade icon associated with the student response that you want to grade.
Enter a grade between 0.0 and the weight of the student response component.
Click the Save grade icon.
The assigned part grade for the response is displayed and the total grade calculation uses the part grade value(s) to calculate the overall grade for the question.

Overall grade in the Details pane

To award or edit the overall grade from the Details pane using the Grade Manager tools:

Click the Grade and note icon from the Grade Manager tools.
Enter a grade value for the overall question in the grade entry field.
(Optional) Add an internal grading note about this overall grade change for your records. This note is visible in the grade history for the student’s response but isn’t visible to students.
Click the Save grade and note icon.
The overall grade is updated in the Selection pane for the student's attempt.

Overall grade in the Selection pane

To award or edit the overall grade from the Selection pane:

Hover your cursor over the student's grade value in the Grade column of the Selection pane to reveal the grade entry field.
Click within the grade entry field and enter the new overall grade that you want to award the student for the question.
Click outside of the grade entry field to save the new overall grade.

Bulk grade attempts

You can perform bulk grading of multiple attempts simultaneously from the Selection pane.

To bulk grade attempts:

Select a question from the Question pane that you want to use to perform bulk grading.
Select the student attempt check boxes for all attempts that you want to assign the bulk grade value to.
TIP: Press Shift + W to move up the list of attempts or Shift + S to move down the list of attempts in the Selection pane. Then press Spacebar to select the attempt when an attempt is reached that you want to include in bulk grading.
TIP: Select the check box in the header of the Selection pane to select all attempts at the question.
Enter the grade value that you want to award to the selected attempts.
NOTE: Your entered value can’t exceed the question total.
NOTE: The bulk grade field is only available when at least one attempt check box is selected.
Click the save icon.
Click Confirm to apply your bulk grade value to the selected attempts.
IMPORTANT: Confirming this bulk grade value can’t be undone.
The total grades for all of the selected attempts are updated in bulk with your defined overall grade.

Add grading comments

After selecting a question from the Question pane, you can add 2 types of grading comments from the Grade Manager’s Activity Grading View:

Grade history notes
Student-facing comments

Add a grade history note

Grade history notes are internal comments that are only visible to instructors when the grade history is viewed.

These notes are helpful to indicate why grades were edited or other notes about the student's response unrelated to a grade change.

To add a grade history note:

Click the Grade and note icon from the Grade Manager tools in the Details pane of the selected attempt.
Enter your custom note in the text box.
NOTE: You don’t have to edit the overall grade value when entering a grade history note; you can leave the overall grade unchanged and only enter a note. Or, you can enter a note at the same time as editing the overall grade to remind you of the reasoning behind changing the overall grade.
Click the save icon.
Your internal grading note is added to the grade history log and is visible when the grade history is viewed.

Add a student-facing comment

Student-facing comments are custom comments that are visible to the student when they’re reviewing their graded response from their Gradebook.

These comments are customized feedback for a student about their specific response(s) to a question.

To add a student-facing comment:

Click the Comment for student icon from the Grade Manager tools in the Details pane of the selected attempt.
Enter your custom comment in the text box.
Click the save icon.
Your student-facing comment is now visible to the student in their Gradebook.

View grade history

The grade history for a question is a historical log of all overall and part grade changes as well as internal notes.

To view the grade history for an attempt:

Click the Grade history icon from the Grade Manager tools in the Details pane of the selected attempt.
The grade history data table for the attempt is revealed:

Date Modified — Date and time stamp of when the grade editing or note event occurred.

Grade — Grade value submitted at the time stamp of A.

User — Username (login) of the user who edited the grade or added a note.

Note — Summary statement of why the grade was edited or a general grading message.

Close — Click Close to exit the grade history and return to the Gradebook.