Grading
To ensure student success, timely grading and constructive feedback are essential. Timely feedback allows students to identify areas for improvement and make necessary adjustments. Constructive feedback helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses, providing guidance on how to improve their performance. Timely grading and feedback create a positive learning environment, promoting student engagement and motivation. They help students stay on track and motivated, ultimately aiding in their academic success. The Faculty Handbook and Faculty Best Practices Guide provide additional information about faculty expectations for grading.
Grading Process Best Practices
In August 2023, the Purdue Global instance of the Brightspace LMS grading workflow was updated. At that time, the following grading process best practices were shared. Please review this information and reach out to askctl@purdueglobal.edu with any questions.
Grade from the specific tool/activity you are assessing. For example, grade assignments using the assignment tool (including both seminar options) and grade discussions from the discussion tool. While assessing work from the grades tool is an option, there are more effective processes for grading.
Review the Brightspace Faculty Guide for more information on grading from the specific tool/activity:
Assess each student completely.
Make sure that all rubrics are completed as required. Please note that any CLA rubrics must be left blank if a student does not submit an assignment or discussion for which a CLA is assessed.
Provide feedback in the “Overall Feedback” area. If you provide specific feedback through annotation tools or as an attachment, please indicate this in the overall feedback area to direct the student to your comments.
If the student does not complete the assignment on time, grade the assignment accordingly. Please note the opportunity to submit the assignment late, as applicable and according to the syllabus, in the overall feedback area.
If updates are made to the assignment that warrant altering the rubric, score, and feedback, add the updates to any current feedback to help establish documentation in the gradebook for updates and changes.
Publish the assessment when complete before moving to the next student. Alternatively, you can save your assessment as a draft to publish later. You must click either publish or save as draft to complete the assessment and move on to the next student.
Once you have completed assessing all students for a particular item, verify that all grades have been published as intended by viewing the grades tool. The grades tool provides a snapshot to verify grading is complete.
Do not clear or delete grades once they have been entered. Clearing or deleting grades can cause assessment reporting issues. You can update the grade without deleting or clearing grades if a change needs to be made.
