Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot for your quick reply. This is the same behavior as I see. However, what happens for me is that the student already gets a grade in the grade book, when the open question hasn't been scored yet. This also means (when activity completion is set on grade) that the activity is set as completed. However, it should only give it a grade and mark it as complete when the assignment has actually been fully graded.
What do you see in your grade book when you left the essay question ungraded? Curious to hear,
thanks a lot,
Frank