Reviewing Completed Assignments
This section describes how to review students’ uploaded and online assignments.
Review Uploaded Assignments
When you are ready to review students’ uploaded assignments, you can do either of the following:
Download all students’ files in a single .zip archive. In this case, the .zip archive will contain a folder for each student.
Download each individual student’s file (or files) separately. In this case, you’ll download a single .zip archive that contains the file or files turned in by one particular student.
Tip
You can do this download at any time after students have begun uploading the files—even if students have not marked the files as final. Just be aware that if the student did not mark the file(s) final, he or she is probably still working.
Display the assignment overview.
Do one of the following:
If you want to download all uploaded files together in one .zip archive, click the More link, select Download all files and follow the prompts to save or open the .zip archive.
Note that if the link is not in the action bar, then you should see it in the More menu.
To download a single student’s files, locate the student’s name on the assignment overview. If you see the Download link on this screen, in most cases that means that the student has marked the assignment as final and feels that the work is done (it could also mean that the due date passed, and the files were automatically marked final by the system). Click the Download link and follow the prompts for opening or saving the .zip archive.
If there is no Download link, but the Files column indicates that the student has uploaded one or more items, this means that the student has not yet marked the files as final and may still be working on them. If you still want to download the files, click the student’s name to display the Student Assignment Details screen. This screen lists the files that the student has uploaded. You can click the name of one of the files to download it, or click Download all of student name’s files.
Reviewing Online Tests
After a student completes an online test, you may want to go over the completed test to grade individual questions or just take a look at the student’s work. You also have the option of viewing all students’ answers to a single question side by side. This might be useful if you want to compare the full range of different responses while grading.
Navigate to the assignment overview.
Locate the name of the student whose work you want to review. If you want to check whether the student is done, look at the Completed column:
If this column lists a date and a timestamp, then the student is done—continue to step 3.
If this is a test that allows retakes, and the student has not yet used all of his or her attempts, the value in this column is Still open. Still, it is possible that the student used one or more attempts that you may want to review. You can tell this by looking at the Time spent column. If the student submitted an attempt and is not currently in the midst of a new attempt, the Time spent column will show a value. In this case, if you want to review the student’s attempt(s), continue to step 3.
Do one of the following:
Click the corresponding Review link for the student.
If there is no Review link, click the student’s name to display the Student Assignment Details screen, then scroll to the bottom of the screen. If the student has taken the test, you will see the beginning of the student’s responses.
Note that you can page through the test from here, or you can click the link labeled Show the whole assignment type on one page.
By default, each question is truncated, but there are links throughout the screen that let you expand an individual question or all questions.
If the student took the test more than once, each attempt is represented by a tab.
From this point, you may want to grade individual questions and enter feedback.
In some cases, you might want to view all students’ responses to a particular question side by side. You can navigate to this view in a few different ways.
To view all students’ responses to a single question, do one of the following:
Start from the assignment overview:
Open the assignment overview.
Click the More link, and then select Grade by question.
The system displays a list of all students’ responses to the online test’s questions.
Start with a single student’s test:
View a student’s completed test.
Locate the question that you want to review. Expand the question, if it is not already expanded.
Click View all students’ responses to this question.
If students already have scores, the system displays a summary of the scores, with links that let you expand any single response.
If students do not already have scores on this question, the system displays all responses on the screen, along with scoring icons.
To display all students’ responses, click Expand all responses, which is at the upper left.