Moodle has a number of Advanced grading options that you can use to help in grading your assignments, such as Rubrics and Grading guides.
Moodle Rubrics allow instructors to use criteria-based assessment forms to grade student work consistently, quickly, and transparently. You will select a level and provide feedback (if enabled) for each criterion.
Enter the course where you want to grade.
Click the Assignment link.
Click the Grade button.
Click the funnel button if you want to filter the students:
- No filter: displays all students regardless of their submission status.
- Not submitted: displays students who have not added a submission, as well as students who have their submission saved as a Draft.
- Draft: displays students who have added a submission, but still have their submission saved as a Draft (because you required students to click the submit button).
- Submitted: displays all students who have made a submission regardless of whether you have already graded it. This does not include drafts.
- Requires grading: displays only students who have made a submission that has not been graded. This does not include drafts.
NOTE: The Requires grading filter is ideal for detecting those who have resubmitted an assignment after you have graded their first submission.
Review the student’s submission:
- Use the PDF editor which automatically converts most files into a PDF and displays them for your inline editing.
OR
- Click the File Submission link to view/download a student’s submitted file(s).
If the view is too narrow, you can toggle which pane dominates the screen.
NOTE: On smaller screens, the PDF editor pane will appear at the top and the submission information pane will appear at the bottom.
Grade each criterion in your rubric by:
- Clicking on the level you want to assign for the criterion.
- Provide feedback for the criterion, if you have it enabled.
NOTE: Be cautious. If you don’t select a level for each criterion, your grade will not be saved.
If you want to provide other feedback (and have it enabled in your Assignment Settings), you can:
- Upload a file to the Feedback files area.
- Enter feedback in the Feedback comments area. You can type in written feedback as well as record video or audio feedback using the proper text editor buttons.
- Add inline comments, marks, stamps, shapes, and more via the PDF editing interface.
Click the Save and show next button when you have finished grading.
NOTE: If you do not want a student to receive an email notification of the grade, un-check the Notify student checkbox at the bottom of the page.
The grading pane will automatically advance to the next student.
NOTE: If you have the filter set to assignments that Require grading, you will receive an error message when you reach the last student because there are no more students that require grading.
Moodle Grading guides allow you to score and provide remarks for each criterion. Grading guides offer more flexibility than rubrics since you can enter any score up to the maximum points for the criterion.
Enter the course where you want to grade.
Click the Assignment link.
Click the Grade button.
Click the funnel button if you want to filter the students:
- No filter: displays all students regardless of their submission status.
- Not submitted: displays students who have not added a submission, as well as students who have their submission saved as a Draft.
- Draft: displays students who have added a submission, but still have their submission saved as a Draft (because you require students to click the submit button).
- Submitted: displays all students who have added a submission regardless of whether you have already graded it. This does not include drafts.
- Requires grading: displays only students who have made a submission that has not been graded. This does not include drafts.
NOTE: The Requires grading filter is ideal for detecting those who have resubmitted an assignment after you have graded their first submission.
Review the student’s submission:
- Use the PDF editor which automatically converts most files into a PDF and displays them for your inline editing.
OR
- Click the File Submission link to view/download a student’s submission file.
If the view is too narrow, you can toggle which pane dominates the screen.
NOTE: On smaller screens, the PDF editor pane will appear at the top and the submission information pane will appear at the bottom.
Grade each criterion in your grading guide by:
- Entering a score for each criterion.
- Provide a remark for the criterion.
NOTE: Be cautious. If you don’t enter a score for each criterion, your grade will not be saved.
If you want to provide other feedback (and have it enabled in your Assignment Settings), you can:
- Upload a file to the Feedback files area.
- Enter feedback in the Feedback comments area. You can type in written feedback as well as record video or audio feedback using the proper text editor buttons.
- Add inline comments, marks, stamps, shapes, and more via the PDF editing interface.
Click the Save and show next button when you have finished grading.
NOTE: If you do not want a student to receive an email notification of the grade, un-check the Notify student checkbox at the bottom of the page.
The grading pane will automatically advance you to the next student.
NOTE: If you have the filter set to assignments that Require grading, you will receive an error message when you reach the last student because there are no more students that require grading.