Instructors can access and grade student submissions from the assignment page. The assignment feedback settings determine how you, as an instructor, provide feedback to students. The options are:

• Feedback comments allow you to write comments for each assignment submission.
  
  
• Annotate PDF allows you to create annotated PDF file when marking assignment submission. You can add comments, drawings, and stamps on top of student's work. The annotation is done in the browser and no extra software is required.
  
  
• Offline grading worksheet allows you to download and upload a worksheet with student grades when marking the assignment.
  
  
• Feedback files allow you to upload files with feedback when marking assignment submissions. These feedback files maybe marked-up student submissions, documents with comments or audio files with feedback.
  
  
• Comment inline, allows you to provide your feedback in the feedback comment field.

Accessing Assignments from eClass

1. Browse to your course in which you wish to grade an assignment,
2. Locate and click on the Assignment activity you wish to grade,
3. The assignment page will display the assignment description as well as the grade summary including number of submissions and number of assignments that need grading.
   
   

Grading student submissions

1. From the assignment page, you can either
   1. Click on Submissions within the course banner to view all submissions,
      
      
      
      
   2. The assignment submission page displays a list of students enrolled in the course as well as detailed information about their assignment, including submission status, submitted file, date of submission, grade, feedback etc.
      
      
   3. Click on Grade on assignment submissions page,
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   1. Directly click on Grade,
      
      
      
   to enter a score and provide feedback on student submissions,
2. The assignment will open in a Annotated PDF viewer enabling the use of annotation and markup tools to grade student submissions (if the annotated PDF viewer does not appear, ensure Annotate PDF is enabled under Feedback types within the assignment settings).
   
   On this page, the assignment is displayed on the left pane, and the right pane has the controls permitting you to enter the grade as well as any feedback.
   
   
   
   You can adjust the size of each pane by moving the divider between them
   
   
   
   The Annotation and Markup Tool bar allows you to provide various kinds of feedback.
   
   
   
   Below is a list of its features:
   
   allows you to rotate document 90 degree to the left.
   
   allows you to rotate document 90 degrees to the right.
   
   Comments allows you to add a comment box. To use this, click on the tool and drag a rectangle across the page where you want the comment box to appear. Within the comment box, you can add your comment.
   
   Comment Color allows you to change the colour of the comment box. After a colour is selected, you can use the comment box tool to add a comment box in the document.
   
   Drag allows you to move the document up and down or left and right depending on your screen resolution.
   
   Select allows you to select an existing annotation you added previously - such as Comment box, line, ...- and move it to a different location on the submission or delete it entirely.
   
   Pen allows you to add free-form lines of any shape and direction.
   
   Line allows you to add straight lines in the document.
   
   Rectangle allows you to draw a rectangles on the document.
   
   Oval allows you to draw an oval on the document.
   
   Highlight allows you to highlight text in the document.
   
   Annotation color  allows you to change the colour of the pen, line, rectangle, oval and highlighter tools.
   
   Stamp allows you to add a stamp on the document.
   
   Stamp - options allow you to select one of the three possible choices that can be used in conjunction with the stamp tool.