It is possible to export MyLO Grades to an Excel Spreadsheet as a backup or for future reference. These instructions explain how to export all your entire Grades record for a unit, or even just a single Grade Item, to an Excel spreadsheet.

UTAS requires that academics do not release students’ final assessment task marks on MyLO until after the exam period and release of formal grades by the University. You can still mark students’ final assessment piece online and publish the marks to the Grades tool, but you will need to ensure that students cannot see the […]

If you have scheduled an examination as the final assessment piece for your unit, you may wish to release students’ internal grade; that is, the grade that they have achieved to date. You can do this using the Final Calculated Grade tool, a feature of the Grades tool. These step-by-step instructions will show you how […]

What does it do? The Grades tool is used to track student participation and grades over time. You can also use the Grades tool to provide students with a summary of their overall Grade grades. This snapshot of the Standard View of the Grades tool points out some of the key features of the tool. Useful […]

Before your MyLO unit reaches its end date, you can export a set of Grademark comments (known as Quickmarks) for use in future units. You can also export a set to share with members of your teaching team, so that they can use the same set to mark student assignments. You can only export Bubble comments, e.g. those comments […]

MyLO is not capable of auto-marking complex free text responses (e.g. of more than one or two words) for short (SA) and long answer  (LA) quiz questions. If students are likely to write full sentence answers, you will need to check student responses to SA and LA questions, and mark their answers accordingly. You can […]

You can use a MyLO Rubric to provide feedback to students, even if you don’t intend to generate a mark with the Rubric. This type of Rubric is known as an Analytic Text Only. NOTE: You will still need to choose an overall score (level) when marking. Follow the instructions below to create a Rubric for […]

If your students have been recording reflections using the ePortfolio tool – whether via Forms or via self-initiated Reflections – you may want to assess their work at some point. Students can submit individual ePortfolio items to you via a Dropbox. However, if you would like students to submit several ePortfolio items for assessment, it […]

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 […]

When they visit the Grades tool, your students will only see Grade Items that have been made visible to them. In this video, Peta explains how to make a Grade Item visible or invisible to students by altering its settings. She also explains how to restrict visibility to particular groups of students. If you use […]