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Grading in different activities

Moodle activities have activity-specific settings for defining the assessment. The activities work in different ways and therefore their assessment methods differ. For example, in an Quiz it is often necessary to define several questions, which are scored and a mark is compiled from the sum of the Quiz points, whereas in an Assignment activity an essay can be assessed directly on a 0-5 scale, for example by means of an assessment matrix.

Activity-specific assessments are always enabled in the settings for the activity in question, under Grade. The assessment settings for an existing activity can be accessed by clicking on the edit mode on the course page and selecting the three dots to the right of the activity and selecting Settings tab.

In activity settings there is Grade-settings. It is very important to make grade settings before any submissions are made or any grades are given as the assessment cannot be edited after the students have completed the activity.

The type of grading

The type of grading can be None, Point (default) or Scale. If you select the type Point, you can add a maximum grade (maximum point), for example for an exam, or if you select the type Scale, you can choose the scale you want from the predefined settings, e.g. 0-5 (even numbers), pass/fail or pass/fail.

Definition of assessment in a Assignment activity

The Assignment activity is not available in JYU Online Courses.

The assessment method can be Simple direct grading, Marking Guide or Rubric. For example, when assessing essays, it is often easier to assess if you use an assessment matrix, which allows you to assess the essay from several different angles.

Example of an assignment evaluation

Select a scale of 0-5 for the Task and have students return a file or online text to the Task Activity.

After the submissions as a teacher you can in the assignment to view all submission on Submissions tab or go directly to Grading selecting Grade.

View all submissions table on Submissions tab you will see a summary of all the returns from all students and you can filter them according to different criteria i.g. status or by name. By clicking Grade-button up right you can go on to annotate their work.

Other possibility to go individual students' submission grading and annotating view is via Grade column menu (three dots).

You can also select several students to the annotating

1. Set filter Submitted or Requires grading

2. Select students on the left

3. Click Grade up right

As a teacher you can use also use Quick grading on the top of the table. It opens the grading possibility on the table

In the grading or annotating view there are several tools for comments and grading. Once you have assessed the submission, you can choose at the bottom of the page whether you want the student to be notified when the assessment is complete. Clicking Save will save the assessment to Moodle and it will appear in both the activity and the gradebook.