Manually grading a quiz as either complete or incomplete.

Manually grading a quiz as either complete or incomplete.

by Brayton Maine -
Number of replies: 3

I have searched for an answer concerning this particular problem and now come to the gradebook forums asking for help.

I have 2 quizzes that I need to "grade" that have multiple essay questions. I am not actually interested in assigning these quizzes an actual grade. What I want to do is review the answers and simply mark that the assignment has been completed.

With small numbers of quizzes being completed this wouldn't be a problem. However, with the possibility of having 200 students doing these quizzes I am looking for a quick and effective method of grading all the ungraded quizzes at once. I would ideally like to either mark a quiz as completed or assign it a grade with as little clicks as possible.

After thinking about it, a "low tech" solution to my problem would be to grade the first question of each quiz to show that it had been "graded." It is a possibility that multiple administrators might be looking at these quizzes at the same time and I need some way of looking at the gradebook at a glance and determining if a quiz had been graded or not. Essentially I would like to use the gradebook to mark whether or not someone's answers need to be reviewed.

In researching a solution I came across downloading the answers and then uploading grades to moodle via cvs. I fear this is much to difficult a method to implement. Or would this method be ideal and simipler than what I'm thinking?

Any ideas and advice is greating appreciated.

In reply to Brayton Maine

Re: Manually grading a quiz as either complete or incomplete.

by Tim Hunt -
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Have you thought about setting the quiz not to be graded at all (Set the maximum grade to 0.) Then add a custom column to the gradebook called something like 'Quiz complete'

Uploading data into the custom column from CSV is pretty easy, I think. Have you tried it out in a test course?

(It is helpful if your adminstrators can set you up with a sandbox course where it is safe for you to experiment without the risk of breaking things for students.)

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Re: Manually grading a quiz as either complete or incomplete.

by Brayton Maine -

Tim. Thanks very much for your quick reply.

That is an interesting solution and something I will have to try and investigate. Luckily I am the admin and can definitely set up a sandbox course for testing as you suggested. I bet I can also play with the settings on my local moodle install as well.

Again, thanks very much! Still have a lot of moodle stuff to learn.

Brayton

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Re: Manually grading a quiz as either complete or incomplete.

by Glenys Hanson -

Hi Brayton,

A couple of years ago Itamar Tzadoc kindly showed me how to rate a forum OK/Not OK. Maybe it could be transposed to what you want to do.

See: Grading/Rating Forums.

HTH,

Glenys