How to Grade Essay Questions

Most quiz question types are automatically graded by our quiz software such as multiple-choice questions. Some question types such as essay questions have to be manually graded by the instructor. The steps in this case are:

The instructor views students answers online
The instructor grades the answer online and assigns it a score
Grading is marked complete after grading all answers
The final score of the student is updated, and essay points are added
Instructors can send an updated report /certificate to the student by clicking the Email button. The updated report can also be downloaded.

Since the score is updated after essay grades are added, the instructor can also prevent students from seeing the interim score (pre-grading score).

Here's how you can hide the interim scores from the students:

Navigate to Settings >> Advanced and locate the option Release Report. Now, select Manually, after essays are graded.

Follow these steps to grade essay questions:

Step 1: Navigate to "Reports."

Step 2: Click the 'view' icon to see answers to each question.

Step 3: Click "Grade Essays" to review essay answers and assign a score.

Step 4. Assign points to essay answers. Click "Save & Next" to secure the changes.

Step 5. A preview of the updated score will appear. You can email the updated report to students.

Step 6: When the Grading is complete, you will see the updated report of the student.

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