CouresSites
Task-Based Movie
CourseSites Tools: Grading an Assignment
Source of Screen Shots:
Course Title: “Introductory Oceanography”
URL: coursesites-dev.blackboard.com
Instructor Login: cchu/cchu
Level: Basic
Anticipated Movie Length: 3min 24secs
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Project name: CourseSites Tools: Grading an Assignment
Author: Innodata [August 15, 2010]
Description: This tutorial explains how to grade an Assignment.
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Narration
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Once students submit work
to an Assignment, you can
review and grade the
submission from the Grade
Center.
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This tutorial will show you
how to locate an Assignment
in the Grade Center, review
and grade it, and provide
feedback for the student and
other instructors if necessary.
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[standard intro slide]
learning goals
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locate an
assignment
enter a grade
provide feedback
and instructor notes
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Narration
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3-4
To begin, access the
Assignments link in the
Grade Center section of the
Control Panel.
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[Click Grade Center]
[Highlight Assignments Link
within the Grade Center
section]
Assignments is a default
SmartView that filters out all
other Grade Center items
except those categorized as
Assignments.
[Click Assignments]
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[Assignments page appears]
Assignments that need
grading will display with a
green exclamation point in
the Assignment columns.
[Highlight cell with an
exclamation mark]
To begin grading an
Assignment, place your
cursor over a cell with a
green exclamation point (!)
and then select either the
View Grade Details option or
a specific attempt from the
contextual menu.
[Click Brown Ch3 Assign
contextual menu]
[Click on View Grade Details]
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Narration
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[Grade Details page appears]
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On the Edit Tab, under the
Actions column access the
submitted work file(s) and
any comments the student
may have entered by clicking
View Attempt.
[Highlight View Attempt in
Action Column]
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Now it’s your turn.
[Your Turn box shows]
Access the student’s
submission.
You can interact with this
movie by clicking the screen.
Skip the Your Turn activities
by clicking Forward in the
playback controls or by
pressing ENTER on your
keyboard.
[Click View Attempt]
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Slide
Narration
11-12
[Grade Assignment page
appears]
From the Grade Assignment
page, you can review student
work, enter a grade, provide
feedback and instructor notes
if desired.
[Highlight Review Current
Attempt area]
Review the student work
using the link(s) next to
Attached Files in the Review
Current Attempt area.
[Highlight Comments area]
Additionally, review the
information next to
Comments if students have
submitted any.
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Narration
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Enter a score for this
assignment, and then enter
your feedback directly into
Feedback to User text box.
[Paste 90 as student score]
[Paste Nice work on this
Assignment. Please be sure
to check your spelling more
carefully on the next one.” In
the Feedback to User text
box. ]
Alternatively, you can upload
a file which you may have
amended with your feedback.
This requires that you save
the student file(s) to your
computer, amend and then
upload.
[Highlight Browse My
Computer button under
Feedback to User]
Optionally, add any notes for
other instructors in the
Grading Notes text box. This
is not viewable by the
students.
[Highlight Instructor Notes
box]
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Narration
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If grading more than one
assignment you may
continue the workflow by
clicking on Save and Next.
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Summary:
[Highlight Save and Next]
Or, if you are finished grading
you can choose Save and
Exit.
[Click Save and Exit]
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Let’s review. To grade one or
more student Assignments,
access the Assignments view
of the Grade Center and
locate a cell with the green
exclamation point.
View the Attempt to access
any files or student
comments submitted.
From the Grade Assignment
page, enter a score, provide
student feedback and enter
instructor notes if desired.
Save the grade.
[Steps appear as mentioned]
“Keep in mind” box appears
but is not narrated. Text to
insert = Another example of
providing student feedback is
editing or making comments
and corrections directly on a
student's assignment file.
This can be done by saving
the file and then uploading it
to the Feedback to Users
area. Students view their
score and feedback from the
My Grades area.
The steps:
1. locate assignment
2. review and grade
assignment
3. provide student
feedback
4. enter instructor notes, if
desired
5. save the grade