Teaching Online at UTAS

You can use Grademark to apply comments to electronic assignment submissions. Students can then view the comments once their assessment results have been published.

Why use Grademark?

Grademark allows you to insert comments onto a student’s assignment. You can use an existing bank of comments, known as a Grademark Set, or create new comments as you go. This is somewhat like writing comments in the margins of a student’s assignment. It is potentially much quicker than the analogue method, as you can re-use comments across student submissions.

What can be marked with Grademark?

You can use Grademark to add comments to files that have been submitted to a Group or Individual Dropbox in MyLO. The Dropbox must have Turnitin enabled. A range of different file types can be used with Grademark, including Word documents, images, PDFs and PowerPoint files. View this post to learn how to enable Turnitin/Grademark when setting up a Dropbox. For further information about file types that can be used with Turnitin and Grademark, view this post. Note that some file types will not work with Turnitin or Grademark.

Essential vocabulary

• Quickmarks are drop and drag comments that you can ‘drag’ onto a students work.
• Quickmarks can be categorised into sets. Sets can then be used across different assessment submissions in a unit, or exported for use in other units.
• Text comments are unique to a student’s submission. They cannot be used in other assignments.
• Bubble Comments can be used to highlight text and make comments about. They can also be saved as Quickmarks.

How to mark with Grademark

These short videos will show you how to mark student submissions with Grademark. Alternatively, you may wish to download these printable instructions. One important thing to remember – Grademark saves (most) of your work automatically, so simply close the window and you’re done!

View a student’s submission in Grademark

Add, edit or remove a Text comment (unique to this student’s work)

Add a Bubble Comment

Change between Quickmark Sets and drag Quickmarks onto a student’s submission

Create a new Quickmark Set and add new Quickmarks to it

Edit and delete Grademarks

See an overview of the Comments (including Grademarks) that you have made so far (on screen or in print)