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 […]

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 […]

Where are Quiz results published to? There are two places where Quiz results can be published so students can see them. The first is the Quizzes tool. This view is controlled by the Submission View settings, which can be altered when you create or edit a Quiz. This image shows how feedback may appear to […]

Unless you want to mark an individual submission from every member of a group, it is best to allow groups to submit assessments to a Group Assignment Submission folder. This way, you only need to collect one submission from the group and grade it accordingly. As long as a Grade Item is assigned to the Assignment, […]

Grade Items act as the connection between an assessment item – like an assignment – and the Grades tool. If you want to mark and record grades online, you may need to associate a Grade Item with an assessment item. You can link an existing grade item to an Assignment Submission folder, Quiz or Discussion Topic. Go to […]

Here are three methods that can be used to grade student Discussion contributions online: Marking with a Grade Item via the Discussion Tool, in which a score and general feedback are provided; or Marking with a Rubric via the Discussion Tool, in which an electronic Rubric is used for feedback and/or grade calculation (when a Custom […]

Do you monitor or assess student participation in tutorials, workshops or online classes? Tracking participation in tutorials can be quite difficult and time-consuming, especially when multiple staff are involved. Using the MyLO Grades tool Dr Gemma Lewis coordinates a large first-year undergraduate unit with over 450 students. Tutorials are included in the unit, and a […]