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Grading Questions

There are a handful of reasons to manually grade a question:

  • All essay questions must be manually graded.

  • Some short-answer questions must be manually graded.

  • You may want to adjust a score that was given automatically by the system.

  • You may want to adjust a score that you previously gave.

To grade a question:

  1. Open the test for review, as described in Reviewing Online Tests.

  2. Locate the question you want to grade. If the question is not already expanded, click Expand question and response.

    To the left of the question text, you should see the scoring icons—a green checkmark, a green-and-white checkmark and a red x.

  3. If you want to compare the student’s response with other students’ responses to this question (and optionally grade the others as well), click View all students’ responses to this question.

  4. To enter or adjust the score, click one of the scoring icons.