If enabled, D2L will automatically grade quiz questions and export quiz scores to the grade book (Automatic Grade and Auto Export to Grades). Alternately, an instructor can manually grade the quiz as well as manually export quiz grades to the Gradebook. Note: written response questions must be graded manually.
Inside the course, navigate to Activities in the navigation bar and select the drop-down arrow, then select Quizzes.
On the Manage Quizzes page, from the context menu of the quiz with attempts to grade, select Grade.
From the Grade Quiz page, there are three grading options, grade by User, grade by Attempts, and grade by Questions. The default view of the Grade Quiz page is the Users view.
• Users - will display all completed attempts by a student's first and last names.
• Attempts - will display all completed attempts and will provide the option of filtering the attempts by graded/ungraded, by score, and by date.
• Questions - allow instructors to grade quiz questions individually.
From the Users tab of the Grade Quiz page, scroll to find a student within the attempts table. Select the Attempt hyperlink for that particular student.
From the Attempt page, do any of the following:
• Select the appropriate attempt for the selected student in the Attempt drop-down menu, if applicable.
• Select the Quizzes Event Log hyperlink to display a pop-up window containing timestamped information for a student's quiz progression (optional).
• The Final Score textbox is auto-calculated by D2L, but instructors may override this score, if necessary (optional).
• Enter any attempt feedback in the Attempt Feedback textbox.
• Review the auto-graded questions, making any changes in the Score textbox, if necessary.
• Select the Expand question feedback hyperlink to open the question feedback textbox. Enter any additional feedback relevant to the particular question in this box (optional).
• Select Publish or Save Draft (selecting Publish - returns to the Users tab of the Grade Quiz page. Note: The Score and Status columns reflect the updates from the assessment).
From the Attempts tab of the Grade Quiz page, scroll to find an attempt within the attempts table.
From the Attempt page, do any of the following (same as selecting Users, then Attempt):
• Select the appropriate attempt for the selected student in the Attempt drop-down menu, if applicable.
• Select the Quizzes Event Log hyperlink to display a pop-up window containing timestamped information for a student's quiz progression (optional).
• The Final Score textbox is auto-calculated by D2L, but instructors may override this score, if necessary (optional).
• Enter any attempt feedback in the Attempt Feedback textbox.
• Review the auto-graded questions, making any changes in the Score textbox, if necessary.
• Select the Expand question feedback hyperlink to open the question feedback textbox. Enter any additional feedback relevant to the particular question in this box (optional).
• Select Publish or Save Draft (selecting Publish - returns to the Users tab of the Grade Quiz page. Note: the Score and Status columns reflect the updates from the assessment).
From the Questions tab of the Grade Quiz page, enable Blind Marking allows the instructor to grade student responses without the names of the students. View Graded Responses (enabled by default) shows responses that have already been recorded by an instructor. Select the question title hyperlink to grade.
From the Grade Question page, by default, only one student's answer displays.
• Use the arrows to navigate to the next (or previous) student's answer. Optionally, use the drop-down menu to select the number of student answers to display per page.
• Enter a score in the Score text box for the subjective questions.
• Select the Expand question feedback hyperlink to open the question feedback textbox. Enter any additional feedback relevant to the particular question in this box (optional).
• Select a saving option:
º Save- Saves all changes, updates the final grade score, but remains on the attempt page.
º Save and Continue– Saves changes and continues to the next student.
º Go Back to Questions- Discards any unsaved changes and returns to the questions tab of the Grade Quiz page.
From the Grade Quiz page, if the Auto Export to Grades (Allow automatic export to grades) was not enabled in the Assessment tab of the Quiz, the student’s score will need to be manually published to the gradebook. Check the Select the All Rows box then select Export to Grades.
Navigate to the gradebook and confirm that all scores were exported.
