Assignments can be assessed in various ways in Brightspace. This article explains how to use each of these options.
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If you want to grade assignments with colleagues, make sure that you do not grade the same student at the same time. Your grading can be overwritten by your colleague if you both grade the same student.
The grading process can be started through multiple routes (Quick Eval, Gradebook, Assignments). You can choose the method that best suits your preferences. Ultimately, the result is the same. In this help item, we explain using Assignments.
In the section "Evaluate with a grade and general feedback," we will demonstrate these three methods once.
Some differences and advantages:
- Quick Eval: This is an overview of outstanding grading tasks for your course. You can filter by activities and date. It is also possible to filter across courses with Quick Eval to find grading tasks.
- Assignments: This is an overview within your course that shows all the assignments created. You click on the assignment you want to grade and can then filter by user/groups or sections (depending on whether these are present in the course).
- Grades: This is an overview within your course that shows all assignments (and other grade items), including the grades/scores given. This is a useful overview when you want to see the overall picture of the course and directly see which students have received a score, which students have not, and which assignments still need to be graded. Here, too, you can filter by user/groups or sections (depending on whether these are present in the course).
Evaluate with a grade and general feedback
Open via Quick Eval
Open de Quick Evaluation tool vanuit de homepage in Brightspace. Hier vind je een course-overstijgend overzicht van nog na te kijken werk. Dit toont alle opdrachten, quizzes, enz. van alle courses waarvoor je bent ingeschreven.
You can filter by courses or activities if needed, and click on the name of the student you want to grade.
It is also possible to open Quick Eval from a course by clicking on View all activities in the Quick Eval Widget on the Course Homepage. This widget can also be found on the Brightspace Homepage.
You can now begin grading.
Open via Assignments:
Click on Course Tools > Assignments in the navbar of your course. Here, you will see all assignments (formative and summative), all student submissions, and information about the grading.
Click on the assignment you want to grade. If desired, you can filter by groups or search for a specific student at the top. In the example below, you can see that one student has submitted.
Open via Grades
- When you're in your course, click on Grades in the navbar. The Gradebook will open, providing an overview of all grade items within the course, including given grades and work that still needs to be graded.
- You can optionally filter by groups.
- Newly submitted work is indicated by an icon with an orange dot. Click on the icon to open the submission and start grading..
Start grading
You can open the submission directly by clicking on it. The following screen will open, and you will see the following:
- The submitted file, which you can open directly. If a student has provided comments on the document, Comments will appear below the document.
- The associated rubric.
- The given score.
- Overall feedback
Open the submitted file by clicking on it. Usually, an assignment will be graded with a rubric, which you can click and expand on the right side. You can then assign scores and add feedback for each criterion. Additionally, there is the option to add overall feedback or use inline feedback.
- When you are done grading, choose Publish or Save Draft:
- Publish: The student will immediately be able to view their feedback.
- Save Draft: This allows you to publish all feedback and grades later at once.
- You can proceed to the next student in various ways, following your preferred method:
- Navigate to the next/previous student submission using the arrows in the top right corner.
- Click on Back to Submissions to return to a list of all submissions for this assignment, and select the next student from there.
- Or go back to Grades to return to the full gradebook.
You can also add an audio or video file to the feedback.
If you choose to save all feedback first and publish it later to your students, you can publish all the feedback at once after grading via Assignments.
Add an audio or video file
Click on the microphone/camera icon on the evaluation page. A new window will appear:
Choose Record Audio or Upload File. Within Brightspace, it is possible to record an audio file up to one minute long. Via Upload File, you can upload larger files (up to 1GB).
Enter a title and description, and select the audio language if you want to add automatically generated subtitles. Then click Add and finally Update. Students will be able to download this file.
Make notes with Brightspace's inline feedback
Brightspace offers a built-in tool for making annotations (Annotation Tools in Assignment), allowing you to add comments and highlight sentences directly in the submitted document. This ensures that grading can begin directly within the file, without needing external tools.
Inline feedback is an addition to simply grading and providing general feedback. As shown below, there is a difference compared to the image in the previous grading option. The right side of the screen remains the same as before.
For more information, refer to How can I grade with inline feedback?
