Manual grading and correction of quizes?

Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Mathias Larsson -
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Hi there new Moodle-buddies!

I have a question for you (regarding moodle 2.5), i´m totally stuck with this...

I Want to create a quiz where students reads questions and put thier answers in a textbox below, as easy as possible. When a student finnished all his/her questions a notification will go to the enroled teacher of the course. The teacher will see the students answers in a list and he/she would have the possabillity to comment and manually correct every question in the quiz. In the end of the quiz the teacher would also have a possability to write an overall comment and a overall grade. When the teacher is finnished a notification will go back to the student. Is this basic kind of quizes hard to setup, i can´t find a good way to do it? Please is it somebody out there who can help me with this?

Thanx in advance!

Mathias

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Mathias Larsson -

(EDIT) I know that it´s possible to make ESSAY-questions, but it would be fine if the teacher could correct a full test of... let´s say 10 ESSAY-questions from one specific student. As it it  now, you only have the possabillity to correct question 1, 2, 3, 4 from all finnished test - it´s confusing for the teachers. For me it´s better for the teachers to correct one full test at the time from one student, then move to the next student and so on... Any clue?

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Tim Hunt -
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You can grade all the questions by one student from the review page for the student's attempt, however it is a bit clunky (lots of pop-up windows).

At the OU we made a 'Grade by student' quiz plugin, that is like the standard Manual grading screen, but shows all teh questions by one student, rather than all student's attempts at one question.

We have not released that add-on to the community yet. We probably could, but that would involved my getting a manager to decide it is OK to do that, so don't hold your breath.

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by Derek Chirnside -

Tim, this would be great if you could ask a manager.

The problem we have is a single student sits a test late, then it's a lot of clicks to manually mark the quiz.

-Derek

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Tim Hunt -
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Before Christmas, I did eventually remember to ask for permissions, any got it. Unfortunately, then I was too busy to get the code onto github. Then I decided that updating all our question type plugins had to take priority, since people are relying on them and need versions for Moodle 2.6.

However, I have now pushed the code to https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-quiz_gradingstudents. The add-on will also appear at https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=quiz_gradingstudents once it has been approved.

I hope you find this useful.

Note, you need different versions depending on which Moodle version you have. v1.0 (git tag) is for 2.4 and 2.5. v1.1 (same as master at the moment) is for 2.6+. It is only a one-line difference. The nasty quiz maintainer changed an API.

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Mathias Larsson -

Thanx alot for your replys. I Will take a look at The forum tweak. I would be very happy if i could get a copy of that quiz-plugin Tim. I'm really stuck at The moment. I can't belive this standard type of quizes not supported in Moodle. 

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by Joshua Bragg -

Tim, I have said this before but I'll say it again.

You've said before that you try very hard not to abuse your position as quiz maintainer to force Moodle to move towards what the OU wants.  While I respect that, I wish you would abuse your position some.  There are a number of "reports" and other things that would do well to be included in standard Moodle.  This grading report is a prime example, as is the edit dates report and the group editing report. 

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by Mathias Larsson -

Interesting diskussion and a huge thanx for the time you spent on my issue. So if we get back to my original question about how to handle a quiz like i want to do, what should i do? I really want to put all the questions in the questions bank for futher use in other courses so i dont think the forum is the best thing for me to use. Thank you anyway Keith!

Derek - The dropdown grading list is possible to get that code or is it totally closed?

And is it any chance to get Tims plugin?

I´m a bit confused right now.

Thanx again!

Mathias

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Barbara Taylor -

Mathias,

Our faculty like having essay questions in with MC.  The system grades the MC and they grade the essay questions.  They prefer to grade one essay question at a time so they can grade in the same mindset instead of bouncing all around.  The Results in 2.5 make it much easier to grade the essay questions.  You can show one student at a time or set a different number of students at a time.  You can set them to be in random or alpha order.  There is a box for comments and a box for the score.  Our faculty like it because they can grade one essay question and then come back to grade the others without having to grade them all at once.  

Barbara

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by Derek Chirnside -

Barbara, just out of interest.  Looking at the actual use of the quiz with essays of your faculty.

  1. How many "essay questions" do your lecturers have in a quiz?  Is it just one?
  2. Do they ever uses essay questions as 'short answers'?
  3. Your comment: "They prefer to grade one essay question at a time so they can grade in the same mindset instead of bouncing all around"  True,  I think this will be the general usual best practice.  However, what happens if one student gets run over by a buss and has to sit the quiz the next day?  Isn't it better to have Both options?

Educationally, free form short answers I find really good for some of our teaching.

-Derek

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by Mathias Larsson -

Derek wrote -"Barbara, just out of interest.  Looking at the actual use of the quiz with essays of your faculty.

  1. How many "essay questions" do your lecturers have in a quiz?  Is it just one?
  2. Do they ever uses essay questions as 'short answers'?
  3. Your comment: "They prefer to grade one essay question at a time so they can grade in the same mindset instead of bouncing all around"  True,  I think this will be the general usual best practice.  However, what happens if one student gets run over by a buss and has to sit the quiz the next day?  Isn't it better to have Both options?

Educationally, free form short answers I find really good for some of our teaching."

How can we together develop a plugin/addon who put all Essay-questions/answers from one student?

 

 

 

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Mathias Larsson -

I know what you mean Barbara but in my case it´s a total diffrent teaching situation. The students study one by one 100 % on distance. Whe have no classes, every day we have new students who start different kind of courses. All results from our student will be corrected and graded manually from question 1-X. So my opinion is... for 100% distance induvidial courses this quiz-system does´nt work satisfactory. Some small tweaks and it would be good for me (and ofcourse others too, read about this issue on other websites) also. Thats why I have to develop my own plugin, Tim already have a working plugin but unfortunatly I can´t get it.....

 

Thanx for answering Barbra!

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by Mathias Larsson -

I totally agree with that!

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Derek Chirnside -

OK, Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43310

"Provide manual grading view for all questions for a single student".  If this is of interest to you, feel free to vote.

-Derek

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Re: Manual grading and correction of quizes?

by Bhargava S -

HI Tim,

 I am a new moodle developer. I have a requirement wherein a teacher is to receive notification, whenever a quiz with questions needing manual grading is submitted, to the effect that the teacher has manual gradings pending.

Would you or anyone else be able to spare time and guide as to how to go about ?

Using Moodle 2.8.5


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