When creating as assessment in the gradebook you can create a group assessment. This will allow learners to upload one assignment (if you use a drop box) on behalf of their whole group and when a grader grades the assignment, the grade will be applied to all group members.

If you use this tool, graders can still tweak individual grades after the group grade has been entered.

To use this feature, you must have course groups built. Please see the Course>Groups page for more detail.

How to add groups to a group assessment

• In the 'Audience Options' section, assign the assessment to specific course groups (include all groups if an entire course is responsible for completing the assessment).

• If you want learners in the same group to get the same grade, check the box.

• Click the 'X' beside the search or somewhere outside the selection window to close it.

• The selected groups will display on a list below the "Select Audience" dropdown.

• To remove a group from the list, click the 'x' beside the group name.

How to assign groups to graders

• Begin to type a grader name into the search field and when matches appear, click on the appropriate name and select Add.

• You may add multiple graders to one assessment.

• To assign groups to graders, click the checkbox beside multiple group names and click 'Assign Selected to Grader'.

• In the popup window, click the checkbox beside the appropriate grader name click 'Assign Learner'.

• The names of individual learners in each group should appear beside the grader name in the Grader/Assigned Learners table on the left.

• To delete a learner from a grader's list, click the red minus icon. Note that the learner will not be added back to learner's list since it only shows groups. If you remove an individual learner from a grader's list you need to ensure the student gets graded some other way.

You can attach an exam to a gradebook assessment from the gradebook or from an exam post. Doing this creates a link between the two so that exam grades will automatically populate the gradebook.

Please note that if you include questions in an exam that need to be manually graded (e.g., short answer), student grades will initially be calculated and displayed in the gradebook without including their possible points from those questions. As such, it is recommended that if you include manually graded questions, you delay the gradebook assessment visibility to learners until you know the exams will be graded.

Attaching an exam post to a gradebook assessment from a gradebook assessment

To attach an exam to a gradebook assessment the exam must first be posted to an event in the appropriate curriculum period. The curriculum period for the gradebook and the event to which the exam is posted must match.

• Create a gradebook assessment using the instructions in the Gradebook help section.

• Click the checkbox beside Link existing online exam to this assessment.

• Click 'Add Exam Post'.

• Begin to type the name of the exam and select it from the displayed list.

• Click 'Attach Exam Post'.

• Note that you have a new item to configure which is exam scoring method. Your options are to: show average of all scores, show first score, show highest score, or show latest score in the gradebook. These options only apply if you set the exam to be taken multiple times by learners.

• Set the other parameters for the assessment and click 'Save.' Note that you do not need to set graders for an exam in the gradebook assessment since you add graders to specific exam posts in the Exams module.

• When the exam is completed and grading is complete (if required) the grades will automatically display in the gradebook.

It is possible to attach more than one exam post to a single gradebook assessment. This might be useful if you have two sections of learners writing the exam at different times but the grades will populate the same gradebook assessment.

Note that when you attach an exam to the gradebook from the edit assessment page, the system automatically determines the point total based on the number of questions on the exam (e.g. 5 questions = 5 points) if you are using a numeric marking scheme.

Attaching an exam to a gradebook assessment from an exam post

If you wish to attach an exam to a gradebook assessment from an exam post you will do so on Step 4:Feedback. *Attach GradeBook: Select an existing gradebook entry to attach the exam to (the list will prepopulate based on the course and event selected in earlier steps and the contents of the gradebook for the relevant curriculum period). Note that you can't set the exam scoring method from here; you must navigate to the gradebook assessment to do so.

Prerequisites

To attach a Course Discussion Forum to a Gradebook assessment, you must have the following in place:

1. Your Course Website must be associated with a Curriculum Period.

2. Your Course Website must have a Discussions page type containing at least one Forum.

Attach a Discussion Forum to an Assessment in the Gradebook

• Create a Gradebook assessment.

• Click the checkbox beside Attach a course discussion to this assessment for grading.

  • The checkbox is below the area where you define the assessment characteristic, marking scheme and grading scale.

• From the Select a Discussion to Grade dropdown menu, select one or more forums that you want to associate with the assessment.

  • If you select more than one forum, your grader(s) will be able to switch between forums to access the learners posts and replies for each.

• Assign your learners to Assessment Graders as required.

• Optionally, attach an Assessment Form to assist your graders in grading the discussion forum.

• Optionally, create an Assignment Dropbox for the assessment, if the learner is also required to make a submission.

• Click Save.