If you want to grade assignment activity work one submission at a time or as its turned you might want to check out our article on Grading Assignment Activities One at a Time/as Work is Submitted.
For the following to work you’ll need to ensure your assignment supports offline grading:
- Edit the settings of your chosen assignment activity
- Scroll down and expand the Feedback types section
- Ensure both Feedback files and Offline grading worksheet are checked
- Scroll to the bottom of this page and save and display so you can jump right into grading.
Offline Grading and Feedback
- Enter your Assignment activity
- Click the View all submissions button
- Near the top of the page is a Grading action drop-down, select Download all Submissions from it.
- Save the file when prompted.
- Again from the Grading action drop-down, but this time select Download grading worksheet from it.
- Save the file when prompted.
- Find the zipped file in your Download folder (or wherever you saved it). Unzip the file.
- Open up MS Word and Excel to do your grading:
Every student’s name will be on their own document- leave the document names as is and apply and save desired in-line feedback.
Enter their grades in the CSV grading worksheet and save your changes when you’re done. - Select all the feedback files and zip them to a new folder of any name.
- Return to the associated Assignment in Moodle
- Click the View all submissions button
- Near the top of the page is a Grading action drop-down, select Upload multiple feedback files in a zip from it.
- Upload the zipped file into the upload box.
- Check the confirmation screen and click Confirm that your feedback files are listed
- Again from the Grading action drop-down, select Upload grading worksheet from it.
- Upload the spreadsheet file into the upload box.
- Check the confirmation screen and click Confirm grades have come through
NOTE: If you get an error on uploading your CSV file to Moodle try:
- Downloading the worksheet from Moodle
- re-saving the worksheet as a CSV
- Then copying your entered grades over before saving it again.
- Try uploading the CSV worksheet again.