Quick Eval is a tool that allows you to see all the different assessments that have been submitted across all the courses you’re teaching.
Quick Eval-Grading (Written Instructions)
Go to your course navigation bar and select Quick Eval. You can also go to the Course Admin tab on your navigation bar to access Quick Eval. Quick Eval offers two views for instructors: Submissions and Activities.
- Submissions
- The Submissions view provides a convenient list of all student submissions that are awaiting evaluation across all of your courses.
- In Quick Eval, assessments will remain visible until an evaluator publishes a Grade and Feedback.
- The Submissions view provides powerful filters for faculty to sort or focus on specific activities, dates, and courses.
- To filter, select the filter’s drop-down menu.
- You can also use the Search bar to find specific submissions.
- To grade a submission, click on the student’s name. This will open the student’s submission.
- Activities
- Activities view displays indicators to show the learner’s progress on submissions, instructor’s progress on evaluations, and on publishing feedback to learners.
- It also includes links to the Evaluation page, Submission page, and Publish All action.
- To grade a student’s assignment submission, complete the following:
- From the Quick Eval Submissions or Activity view, select the assignment submission you want to grade.
- To add a score to the assignment, enter the value in the Overall Grade field.
- You may also annotate a submission using the Annotation tools.
- Optionally, to evaluate based on the rubric you have attached to the activity, select the rubric and complete the Rubric Scoring criteria.
- Additionally, you can include text, audio, or video feedback using the Brightspace Editor.
- Once feedback is completed, select either Publish or Save Draft.
- Publish will make feedback available to the student, whereas Save Draft will save all completed feedback but will not yet be released to the student until published.
- When using the Save Draft feature, there are a couple optional steps you may choose to use: if selecting Save Draft, feedback can be published later by returning to the student’s submission or through the Activities tab and to return to Quick Eval, select Back to Quick Eval on the top left corner.
- From the Activities tab, locate your desired course and activity, hover over the Activity Name and click More Actions.
- Select Publish All to publish all evaluated submissions for this activity.
- Most quiz question types are automatically graded by Brightspace.
- To manually access written response questions, complete the following: from Quick Eval, access the quiz you want to grade.
- On the Quiz Evaluation page, select the attempt and scroll through student responses.
- On the Written Response submission, review student submission and enter a Score.
- Optionally, you can include feedback using the Brightspace editor.
- To return to Quick Eval, select Back to Quick Eval on the top left corner.
- From Quick Eval, select the Discussion post you want to grade.
- Review student Discussion post and any replies, if applicable.
- To add a score to the Discussion post, enter the value in the Overall Grade Field.
- Optionally, if you have a rubric attached to the Discussion post, assess a student’s submission using the rubric.
- Additionally, you may include text, audio or video feedback using the Brightspace Editor.
- Once feedback is completed, select either Publish or Save Draft.
- Published will make feedback available to the student, whereas Save Draft will save all completed feedback, but will not be released to the student.
- To return back to Quick Eval, select Back on the top left corner.
Assess, Evaluate, and Provide Feedback (Written Instructions)
Access Quick Eval via a Navigation bar link
- To grade the work of your first student the student’s submission will load on the left three-quarters of the page, whereas on the right corner of the page will be the assessment and feedback options.
- Scroll down to look at the particular student’s submission; you’ll see you can view the submission itself. You can also dive into the particular submission a little bit more, by using the full-screen toggle to toggle to a nice full-screen mode.
- Within a student’s submission, you can use the Annotations tool to provide inline feedback on the student submission itself. You can draw or freeform highlight the page. You can also use a text highlighter to highlight certain text within the submission.
- In addition to highlighting text, you have the ability to add notes, text boxes, as well as shapes
- Once you’ve added the annotations to the submission itself, you may wish to toggle out of the full-screen view. You’ll notice you have the ability to download or print the submission itself. So as the instructor, as well as the student, I can print the annotated version of this assignment itself and can use the Download Print or Download Submissions Option to download the original or the annotated version of this document.
- If you use a rubric for grading, you can hover over any of the levels within the rubric and I see quite clearly what a level three, a level two, or a level one is within this particular rubric. When you construct rubrics, you can have as many levels as you require and you also have the ability to provide standardized feedback.
- Now that rubric score will automatically flow into the associated grade item. In addition to the feedback, via annotations, as well as the marked-up rubric, you can also use the include additional overall feedback overall feedback box to add additional feedback.
- You also have the the ability to record audio, record video, add attachments from OneDrive or Google Drive, as well as upload Record audio, video, and attach documents files from my computer. This gives you the ability to provide really powerful feedback in the form various different media forms to our students.
- Click the Publish button, or if I prefer to grade all students before publishing those scores, I can use my Save Draft button and then the Next button to grade the next student for the same assignment.
- Once you have completed grading all students for that particular activity, you can bulk publish the grade . Bulk Publish displays the score as well as the feedback so that all students receive the score and feedback at the same time.
- Use the Back to Quick Eval button in the top left corner here to navigate to the Quick Eval tool and within the Quick Eval tool, there are two different views. There is a Submissions view as well as an Activity’s view.
- Within the Submissions view, you can see a list of all the student submissions to every assessment.
- View and filter all submissions from all courses within all of your courses and have the ability to very easily use my filter and search capabilities to filter a search based on the activity name, the course, or date student submission to the particular assessment. This creates a nice grading queue to assess that student work.
- You also notice that there is a rating scheme aligned to this particular discussion topic, where users can rate posts. You can provide feedback and a grade discussions via an associated rubric, as well as our overall feedback Assess discussions with rubrics and provide feedback box.