Grading Features
Quickly Grade Forums
The Grader allows the instructor to quickly and effectively view and grade discussion forum posts and submitted assignments. This document will provide an overview of how to use the Moodlerooms Grader tool to review student submissions quickly. Grades and feedback entered in the grader tool automatically appear in each student's private grade book in your course.
It is important to note that Discussion Forums & Assignments can only be graded with the grader application if they are worth a grade in your grade book -- point value or scale grade types both work. If you do not see a forum or assignment appearing in the grader window, that means it is not worth a grade value in your course.
Accessing the Open Grader
Step 1: Click on the Forum from the course page and select Grade users. The grader will open in a new window.
Step 2: The grader will appear in a new screen. There are a variety of options available to customize your view.
A. Enter full screen view.
B. Open and close grade panel
C. Enter the point value the student achieves out of the maximum possible score.
Note: Students automatically receive an email notification when you grade an activity in Moodle.
D. Toggled to individual students from the course roster to review and grade.
E. View content submitted by a student. In this view, we see a discussion forum post written by our test student. The grader displays discussion posts and replies by default.
Step 4: Students can click on the “Grades” link in a course to view the grade they received for each activity as well as any written feedback.
Note on Grading Discussion Forums
Discussion Forum posts and replies made by each student will automatically appear in the viewing pane within the Open Grader. It is possible to change the view to student post(s) only by clicking the Show only user's posts button.