This solution would suit scenarios like this:

• You/your tutors monitor students’ participation in weekly tutorials and workshops. Participation is not assessable; however, you wish to collect data about participation to inform the ongoing development of your unit.
• You/your tutors monitor students’ participation in weekly tutorials and workshops for assessment purposes. You would prefer to make a judgement about a student’s participation overall (rather than have MyLO calculate a score automatically), and record a mark based on your judgement.

Grading system and other requirements

This method requires the use of a weighted grading system. You will need to develop your own scoring system for tracking student participation. For example, a simple system might be as follows:

• 0 – indicates non-attendance;
• 1 – indicates attendance but minimal participation;
• 2 – indicates a reasonable level of participation; and
• 3 – indicates a high level of participation.

Your Category will initially need to be assigned a weighting (e.g. if participation is worth 10% of the unit, assign a Weight of 10). This will allow you to track how students perform over time using the Category Subtotal. This weighting is changed to 0% later in the unit, so that it does not impact on the Final Calculated Grade. If you wish to track participation, we suggest that you export the Category and Subtotal to an Excel spreadsheet before you change the Category weight to 0. This way, you will retain a record of the Subtotal. If you wish to manually generate a final overall participation mark for assessment purposes, you should create a Standalone Grade Item and record grades into it before you change the Category weight to 0.

When marking, you will need to record 0 as the grade for any un-submitted Quizzes or to represent non-attendance/lack of participation.

You will need to:

• Create one Category to represent the assessment task (if participation is assessable) to organise your weekly items. Use the options suggested here.
• Create one Grade Item for each week. Use the options suggested here. You must link each Grade Item to the Category that you have created.
• If you wish to manually generate an overall grade for the assessment task, we suggest creating another standalone Grade Item that is not linked to the Category you have created. Weight the Grade Item accordingly (e.g. if the assessment is worth 10%, record 10 as the weight). Use the options suggested here.

To see an example of what this solution might look like in the Grades tool, download this PDF.

You can download a printable copy of this whole page here.

This solution would suit scenarios like this:

• Each week, students complete a Quiz as preparation for class. There are 12 Quizzes. The two lowest scores are dropped, so that the 10 remaining Quizzes contribute 10% each towards Assessment Task 2, worth a total of 10 marks.
• You wish to monitor student participation. Each week, a score is recorded for each student in a standalone Grade Item. The five highest scoring Grade Items are calculated to form the final grade for Assessment Task 2, worth a total of 10 marks.

Grading system and other requirements

This method requires the use of a weighted grading system. When marking, you will need to record ‘0’ as the grade for any un-submitted Quizzes or to represent non-attendance/lack of participation. Once the students have completed their final task, you will need to make a slight alteration to the Category settings so that the Category ‘drops’ the required number of Grade Items.

You will need to:

• Create one Category to represent the assessment task and use the options suggested here.
• Create one Grade Item per task, either standalone (for participation marking) or to be linked to a tool like a Quiz. Use the options suggested here. You must link each Grade Item to the Category that you have created.
• Link each Quiz (where relevant) with one of your new Grade Items. Note that you can skip this step if you have created Standalone Grade Items.

To see an example of what this solution might look like in the Grades tool, download this PDF.

When marking:

The Category Subtotal will calculate correctly only if you record a zero (0) for each un-submitted piece of work. Here are some instructions on how to mark un-submitted items with a 0 quickly.

You can download a printable copy of this whole page here.

This solution would suit scenarios like this:

Students will deliver a presentation and then respond to questions from teachers and peers for an Assessment Task worth 35 marks. Face-to-face (F2F) students deliver their presentation and respond to questions in class. You will use a standalone Grade Item to provide F2F students with a grade and feedback. Distance students will pre-record a presentation. They will submit a copy to a Dropbox (worth 70%). You make the presentations available for viewing by linking to them to Discussion Topic. You will mark the Discussion Topic to assess how students respond to questions about their presentation (worth 30%).

Grading system and other requirements

This method requires the use of a weighted grading system. See also the instructions for marking un-submitted and irrelevant items below.

You will need to:

• Create one Category to represent the assessment task and use the options described here.
• Create one Grade Item per assessment item and use the options described here. You must link each Grade Item to the Category that you have created.
• Link each Dropbox/Discussion/Quiz with one of your new Grade Items. If students perform a task in class and do not need to submit items electronically, you can skip this step.

To see an example of what this solution might look like in the Grades tool, download this PDF.

When marking:

• Do not record a mark for items that a student does not need to submit.
• If a student fails to submit an item that they are expected to complete, record a 0 as their grade.

In the example below, Tam is studying F2F, while View Student is studying by Distance. Tam has received a mark of 67/100 for the presentation she delivered in class. No marks need to be recorded for the other tasks, as the F2F Presentation is worth 100% of Assessment 3 (A3) for F2F students.

View Student, on the other hand, failed to participate in the Distance Q&A required of Distance students. To account for this, a 0 mark was recorded for this task, bringing down the student’s overall mark (Subtotal) for the assessment task accordingly.

You can download a printable copy of this whole page here.

This solution would suit scenarios like this:

• Students submit four items at different points, each to a separate Dropbox. Three submissions are each worth 10%. The fourth submission is worth 70% of Assessment Task 3.
• Students submit four items at different points during your unit, each to a separate Dropbox. Each submission is worth 25% of Assessment Task 3.
• Students complete 10 Quizzes. Each Quiz is worth 10% of Assessment Item 3.
• Students work in groups to create a Report. It is submitted to a group Dropbox and worth 70% of Assessment Item 3. Students then submit a personal reflection about the task to an individual Dropbox. This is worth 30% of Assessment Item 3.

Grading system and other requirements

This method requires the use of a weighted grading system. When marking, you will need to record a 0 for students who have not submitted work.

You will need to:

• Create one Category to represent the assessment task and use the options described here.
• Create one Grade Item per assessment item and use the options described here. You must link each Grade Item to the Category that you have created.
• Link each Dropbox/Discussion/Quiz with one of your new Grade Items. If students perform a task in class and do not need to submit items electronically, you can skip this step.

To see an example of what this solution might look like in the Grades tool, download this PDF.

When marking:

The Category Subtotal will calculate correctly only if you record a zero (0) for each un-submitted piece of work. Here are some instructions on how to mark un-submitted items with a 0 quickly.

You can download a printable copy of this whole page here.

This solution would suit scenarios like this:

• Students submit their work to a MyLO Dropbox. Their submission is worth 100% of Assessment Task 1.
• Students contribute to one Discussion Topic. Their contributions to the topic are worth 100% of Assessment Task 1.
• Students complete a Quiz. The Quiz is worth 100% of Assessment Task 1.
• Students complete a presentation in class. It is worth 100% of the Assessment Task. As no files will be submitted, you will use a Standalone Grade Item.

You will need to:

• Create one Grade Item and use the options described here.
• Link a Dropbox/Discussion/Quiz with your new Grade Item. If students perform their task in class and do not need to submit something electronically, you can skip this step.

To see an example of what this solution might look like in the Grades tool, download this PDF.

You can download a printable copy of this whole page here.

A Grade Item is a column of the Grades tool dedicated to tracking the grades associated with a particular task. It may be associated with a MyLO assessment tool like a Dropbox or Quiz, or it could be a standalone item used to track classroom participation or presentations.

These step-by-step instructions explain how to create a Grade Item.

This table provides an overview of common MyLO tools, and their relationship to Grade Items. It also takes into account electronic Rubrics, Turnitin and Grademark.

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 marks or feedback associated with their final assessment. This is achieved by:

• hiding the Assignment Submission Folder/Quiz Submission View and associated Grade Item from students; and
• ensuring that students cannot see Grades or Assignment Submission Folders in the My/User Progress tool.

These items must be hidden from students before you publish and grades or feedback. The instructions from page 3 of this [PDF] will show you how.

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 do this using the Grade option attached to a Quiz.  This document takes you through the process of marking Quiz responses, one step at a time.

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 a student in the Quizzes tool. In this example, students can see their answer, as well as the correct answer (indicated by a green tick), and their score for the question.

A Quiz score can also be published to the Grades tool. This tool is generally used when a Quiz score will form part of the formal assessment of a unit. The Quiz will need to be connected to a Grade Item for this to work. You can decide when (or if) students will be able to view the Grade Item. Students will only see the total score for a Quiz here – they will not be able to see their answers, correct answers and so forth.

Can results be published automatically?

If a Quiz can be auto-marked by MyLO, it is possible to publish the results in the Quizzes and/or Grades tools automatically. This works in cases where multiple choice, true/false and similar question types have been used. However, it is not suitable for Quizzes with questions that need to be marked manually, like short and long answer questions. You will need to ensure that particular settings are in place in order for this to work. See the Publishing results to Grades section below for more information. Click here for more information about questions types.

Publishing results in the Quizzes tool using Submission Views

By default, when a student completes a Quiz, they will see their score. As a Unit Coordinator/Lecturer, you can control what information is released, and when it is released, using the Submission Views option (you can see this when you edit the Quiz).

• If you want to show students their score and feedback immediately after they complete a Quiz, you will need to change the Default View settings to include particular information, like incorrect answers, correct answers and so forth.
• If you do not want students to see their score immediately after they finish a Quiz, you will need to turn off the Show attempt score and overall attempt score option in the Default View settings.
• If you do not want students to see a score and/or feedback until a particular date and time, you should set up an Additional View.

Tam demonstrates how to edit the Default View and Additional View settings in this video. Alternatively, download this step by step guide to creating a Quiz.

Publishing results to Grades

If you wish to publish Quiz results to the Grades tool, you will need to ensure that the Quiz is connected to a Grade Item. These instructions explain how. You will also need to decide whether or not you want the Grade Item to be hidden from students or not. You can also choose which groups of students should see the grades. This post explains how to change the settings of a Grade Item to make it visible/invisible to students, and to release it to particular groups.

To publish to Grades automatically, you will need to have these settings in place before students commence the Quiz.

These settings can all be found in the Quiz settings (click the dropdown arrow next to the Quiz name and select Edit).

In the Assessments tab:

• Ensure that the Quiz is linked to a Grade Item.
• Under the heading Auto Export to Grades, check the Allow automatic export to Grades option.
• Under the heading Automatic Grade, check the Allow attempt to be set as graded immediately upon completion option.

To publish to Grades after marking or checking Quiz results.

In this video, Peta shows you how to publish Quiz results manually, and how to avoid common mistakes when publishing results.