Opening using Quick Eval

Open the Quick Evaluation Tool in the Saxion homepage on Brightspace. Here, you can find a complete overview of all work that is yet to be graded from all courses.

You can filter on specific classes or activities, and click on the name of the student who you want to grade. You can now start grading.

Opening using Assignments:

Open the Assignments tool via Course Tools in a course. Here, you can find all assignments (formative and summative), all submissions from students, and information about the grading.

Click on the assignment that you would like to assess. If desired, you can filter at the top to find your own class (section) or possible subgroups. In the example below, it can be seen that one student has submitted an assignment.

Opening using Grades

1. When you are in a course, click on Grades in the navigation bar.
   1. The Gradebook will open, where you can find a total overview within a course of all grade items, given assessments, and to-be graded work.
2. You can filter on subgroups or classes.
3. Newly submitted work is indicated with an icon with an orange dot. Click on the icon to open the submission and start grading.

The submission can be opened directly by clicking on it. The screen below will open. You can see the following items there:

1. The submitted file, which you can open directly.
2. Possible comments from students.
3. The linked rubric.
4. The given score.
5. Overall feedback.

Open the submitted file by clicking on it. In most cases, the assignment will be graded using a rubric, on which you can click on the right side side of the screen to unfold  it so that scores can be given and feedback can be added per criteria. Additionally, it is possible to give overall feedback or to work with inline feedback.

1. When you are done grading, please choose Publish or Save draft
   • ! With Publish, the student will immediately see their feedback.
   • ! With Save draft it is possible to release all grades and feedback at once.
2. You can move on to the next student in several ways. You can follow your own preference in this.
   • Navigate to the next/previous student using the arrows at the top right or bottom right.
   • Click on Back to submissions to return to the list of all submitted work for this assignment, and choose the next student from there.
   • Return to Grades to return to the full gradebook.

You can ass an audio or video file or work with inline grading. Do you want more specific information about working with a rubric? Please see here.

In case you choose to first give all feedback and publish this to all students at a later time, you can publish all grades and feedback at once in Assignments.

To add an audio or video file, click on the microphone/camera icon on the evaluation page. The pop-up below will appear:

Click on either Record Audio or Upload File. Note that you can only record for one minute in Brightspace. However, it is possible to upload a larger file (up to 1 GB) using the Upload file option. 

Enter a title, description and select the audio language if you are willing to generate captions for your file. Finally, click on Add and on Update. 

Students are able to open this file in Brightspace and are also able to download it. 

Brightspace offers built-in Annotations Tools in Assignment to assess submission with inline feedback with free hand drawing, highlighting, text and note annotation. This allows you to assess submissions directly in Assignments, without using external tools like Turnitin.

The inline feedback offers an addition to just adding a grade and general feedback. As shown below the left side looks a tad different, whereas the right side still offers the same fields as discussed above.

Brightspace allows Instructors to process and evaluate assignments in bulk. This is a great time save when dealing with large cohorts. In short, this feature condenses all student’s submissions into a .ZIP file. Instructors open the file, add their feedback, save the file and upload the ZIP file back to Brightspace. The evaluated file will become an attachment to the student’s submission.

Anonymous Marking is a setting in Brightspace which allows you to mark your students Assignment submissions without knowing the identity of the student. As shown below, you will see names as Anonymous User while evaluating with Anonymous Marking turned on.

When you are grading a submission that has conditional requirements (and you have put these requirements in the gradebook in a separate column), grading the requirements works the exact same way as grading the content works. Opening the conditional requirements, however, works slightly different.

Having the submission from the student open and opening the conditional requirements in a new tab is the most comfortable way to work when grading. Open the gradebook from your course once again, but now in a new tab. Navigate in the Gradebook to the column where the conditional requirements are.

1. Press the arrow
2. Choose Enter Grades

A new page will open. Open the rubric by pressing the icon in the "Assessment" column.

1. Add the conditional requirements
2. Press Publish

In the Gradebook, you can now see the substantive assessment of the submission, if it meets the conditional requirements.