How to Grade a Quiz

General Quiz Grading Features

View attempts

To grade a completed quiz activity, go to it and click Attempts:Attempts button on the Quiz activity page

Review an attempt

You can review a specific attempt by clicking Review attempt under the user that you want to grade:

Review attempt link under the student's name, on the Attempts page

Review Attempt page

From here you will be able to view info about the attempt such as the Student name, time attempt started, time attempt completed, state (whether finished, incomplete, etc...), time taken, grade, the questions with students' answers and, if it is not an essay or written answer, whether or not they answered correctly:Attempt review page

Delete

Please be advised some types of questions are graded automatically, and some types of questions only allow manual grading.

Grading and overriding grades

On the Review Attempt page, you will be able grade questions that require manual grading, and you will have the option to override grades to questions that were automatically graded. Click on  Make comment or override mark to access these functions:Make comment or override mark link

After clicking Make comment or override mark, it will expand to include the question and the student's answer, as well as a comment section and a box to override a mark:

Comment and mark section

Delete

You can override the grade for an automatically graded question by following the same process above

Common auto-graded question types

  1. Multiple Choice
  2. True/False
  3. Short Answer
  4. Matching

Common manually-graded question types

  1. Essay
  2. Short answer


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