View and Grade Quiz Attempts

Although many question types can be auto-graded, other question types (e.g., written response questions) must be manually graded and published. The steps below describe how to manually grade quizzes in a few different ways:

  1. Grade Quizzes by Student Attempt
  2. Grade Only Quizzes with Pending Evaluations
  3. Grade Quizzes by Question

The steps below can also be followed to adjust any auto-graded scores, or simply to view a student’s quiz attempt.

Grade Quizzes by Student Attempt

  1. On the nav bar, click the Activities menu, then select Quizzes.
    Quizzes on the Nav Bar
  2. On the Manage Quizzes page, from the context menu of the quiz, click the Grade option.
    grade quiz
  3. The Grade Quiz page will open automatically to the Users tab.
  4. Scroll down to the list of students and click on the particular student’s attempt you want to grade. Note: If the attempt is pending evaluation, this will be indicated in the Status column. If the quiz allowed students to retake incorrect questions, any Retaken Attempts will display on this page.
    Pending Evaluation Attempt
  5. The Grade Attempt page will open. By default, all questions will display. Optional: Change the Question view to Pending Evaluation to show only questions that need to be manually graded. This option is available for quizzes that contain questions that need to be manually scored (such as Written Response questions) AND that have the “Allow attempt to be set as graded immediately upon completion” option disabled.
    Pending Evaluation on Grade Attempt page
  6. Scroll down to view questions and student answers. Enter the points the student earned.
    score each question
  7. If you would like to add specific Feedback to the student, click on the Expand question feedback link.
    Note: If you provide feedback to individual questions, make sure you have created a Submission View that allows students to view answers and feedback.
    Grade Quiz Expand Question Feedback
  8. When you have finished scoring questions, scroll back to the top and adjust the final score, mark the quiz attempt as Graded, and add any necessary overall Attempt Feedback.
    Quiz Set Quiz to Graded
  9. When you have finished grading the attempt, click Publish (this will immediately publish the score to the grade book) or Save Draft if you wish to wait until all quizzes are graded before publishing.
    Publish or Save Draft
  10. If you saved grades as draft and are ready to publish the grades and are ready to publish the scores to the grade book: Check the box to the left of the student’s name, or if selecting the entire class, click the checkbox to the left of “First Name, Last Name” in row 1. Then click Publish Feedback.
    Publish Graded Quiz Attempt

Grade Only Quizzes with Pending Evaluations

For quizzes that contain questions that need to be manually scored (such as Written Response questions) AND that have the “Allow attempt to be set as graded immediately upon completion” option disabled.

  1. On the nav bar, click the Activities menu, then select Quizzes.
    Quizzes on the Nav Bar
  2. On the Manage Quizzes page, from the context menu of the quiz, click the Grade option.
    grade quiz
  3. The Grade Quiz page will open automatically to the Users tab.
  4. Click Show Search Options.
    Grade Quiz Show Search Options
  5. Under Status, select Pending Evaluations, then click the magnifying glass icon to search & update the Users tab to only show attempts pending evaluation.
    Search Only Pending Evaluations
  6. Scroll down to the list of students and click on the particular student’s attempt you want to grade. Note: the status column will indicate the attempt is Pending evaluation.
    Pending Evaluation Attempt
  7. The Grade Attempt page will open. Scroll down to view questions and student answers. Enter the points the student earned.
    score each question
  8. If you would like to add specific Feedback to the student, click on the Expand question feedback link.
    Note: If you provide feedback to individual questions, make sure you have created a Submission View that allows students to view answers and feedback.
    Grade Quiz Expand Question Feedback
  9. When you have finished scoring questions, scroll back to the top and adjust the final score, mark the quiz attempt as Graded, and add any necessary overall Attempt Feedback.
    Quiz Set Quiz to Graded
  10. When you have finished grading the attempt, click Publish (this will immediately publish the score to the grade book) or Save Draft if you wish to wait until all quizzes are graded before publishing.
    Publish or Save Draft
  11. If you saved grades as draft and are ready to publish the grades and are ready to publish the scores to the grade book: Check the box to the left of the student’s name, or if selecting the entire class, click the checkbox to the left of “First Name, Last Name” in row 1. Then click Publish Feedback.
    Publish Graded Quiz Attempt

Grade Quizzes by Question

Grading quizzes by Question allows you to use the anonymous Blind Marking option. This allows you to grade individual responses without seeing the student’s name (for example, to score a written response answer).

  1. On the navbar, click the Activities menu, then select Quizzes.
    Quizzes on the Nav Bar
  2. On the Manage Quizzes page, from the context menu of the quiz, click the Grade option.
    grade quiz
  3. The Grade Quiz page will open by default to the Users tab. Click on the Questions tab.
    Grade Quiz Question tab
  4. Optional: If you want to grade students anonymously, check the box for Blind Marking.
    Quiz Blind Marking
  5. Click on the question you want to grade.
    Quiz Questions to Select
  6. Questions can be graded one student at a time or multiple students/all students on one page, with the system displaying Attempt # where the student’s name would usually be found.
    • To grade a question one student at a time, select the attempt number at the top of the page to switch between students or select the right & left arrows. Each number represents a student’s attempt.
      Blind Mark one attempt
    • To grade multiple students/all students on one page for a question, change the dropdown menu to display more attempts.
      Question Attempts DropdownBlind Mark Multiple Attempts on One page
  7. For each question attempt, enter the earned points in the box below Score.
  8. Optional: Click Expand question feedback to type an explanation or custom feedback in the box provided.Expand Question Feedback for Blind MarkingQuestion Feedback for Blind Marking
  9. After grading a submission and giving feedback, either click Save and Continue to grade the next student attempt of the question (if you are viewing attempts one at a time for a question), or click Save to save current work and return back to the question list page. Note: Save is the only option if you are grading multiple attempts on one page.
  10. When you are finished grading the questions, click on the Go Back To Questions button.
    Go Back To Questions button
  11. Repeat these steps for each question.
  12. When you are finished grading each question, click the Close button to return to the Manage Quizzes page.
    Grade Quiz Close Button