Grading – Best Practices

• For the best experience grading filtering is going to be key. Please make sure to set your filters appropriately for what you would like to view. For Results you’ll want to set it to All (Best) and then drill down with the Progress from All to To Be Reviewed (if you need to grade), In Progress (students are actively working in lab), Completed (work that has already been graded).

• If the color icons are not presenting accurately, we suggest turning them off. Simply uncheck the Progress box in the View Panel portion of the gradebook.

• To ensure that nothing is missed we recommend adjusting the Rows filter at the bottom of the page from 20 to 50+ or a quantity suitable to the number of students in the course. 50+ will ensure that whether you are grading by question or grading by student that every row will show up on one page. This filter will maintain for your entire grading session but will need to be reset the next time you log in to grade.

• To make sure that you know what needs to be manually graded at a glance please use the item statistics after filtering for the lab portion that you would like to grade.

The system will auto-grade all T/F, multiple choice, matching/labeling, grouping/sorting. The instructor is responsible for grading, image uploads, short answer questions, and data tables.

• If you do not have the Submit button enabled on the Lesson (Exploration + Experimentation) nor have a Due Date set on a Lab Lesson you will need to Force Grade the submissions so that they reflect properly in your gradebook.