Assessment

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Assessment Resource

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Grades

The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or letter grade.

Graded assignments, graded discussions, graded quizzes, and graded surveys that have been published will appear as an editable column in the Gradebook. Non-graded assignments/quizzes will not be visible in Gradebook.

The default view in the Gradebook is to view all students at a time, but you can also view students individually.

Posting Grades

Grades entered into the grade book are by default automatically posted to the student. You can choose a manual posting policy where all grades are hidden until you manually post grades.

How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook?

How do I select a grade posting policy for an assignment in the Gradebook?

In rare circumstance you may need to hide grades from specific students, please see guide below on how to do this:

Releasing Grades when a Student is Under Academic Review

Rubrics

You can add a rubric to an assignment to help students understand expectations for the assignment and how you intend to score their submissions. Once you create a rubric, the rubric is saved in your course for future use. You can use the rubric for grading and adding comments. You can manage created rubrics in the Manage Rubrics page.

Feedback

There are many approaches to providing feedback as part of the assessment-feedback cycle. Find out more about providing meaningful feedback to students using a range of assessment tools and feedback options.

External Assessment Tools

A number of external assignment tools are available to improve assessment involving functions such as group work, similarity checking and structured learner-centred assignment writing. Currently, these tools can be used in any course:

Cadmus - structured learner-centred assignment writing
Feedback Fruits - group work assessment, peer assessment

These tools are available in limited courses:

Gradescope - ECMS and Sciences computer code auto-grading, grading assignments rich in symbols and formulae
Mobius - ECMS
Matlab Grader - ECMS

Locked Down Assessment

Respondus software including LockDown Browser are the supported tools for running locked down assessments. The purpose of Respondus LockDown Browser is to stop students access other material during online assessments such as online tests or exams. Respondus LockDown Browser requires a proctored environment such as an exam room where users do the test on a computer under face to face supervision.

For a quick start in setting up a locked down assessment, refer to the staff guidelines - Respondus LockDown Browser.

For recommended steps to ensure a smooth and successful examination of students using Canvas Quizzes within the Respondus Lockdown Browser environment download the Exam-Test Procedure using Lockdown Browser.