Assignments can be utilized for many types of assessments
by instructors. There are multiple ways to grading assignments. This tutorial
demonstrates how to grade an assignment from within the assignment submission
folder in MyFIRE.
1. Access the desired course in MyFIRE.
2. Select the instructor
tools tab in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
3. Then select course
admin from the drop-down menu.
4. Select assignments from the Assessment options.
5. When the page loads, a
list of the assignments that have been created in the course will appear.
Select the desired assignment. From this page, instructors are
able to view if there are new submissions from students, the number of students
who have completed the assignments, the number of assignments evaluated, the
number of assignments where the feedback has been published, and the assignment
due date if added.
6. When the page refreshes, a
list of the students that have submitted the assignment will appear. Locate
the student that you would like to assess. The default view of the student
submissions will show all students in the course.
7. Select evaluate to
the right of each student’s name or the title of the file submission.
8. When the page refreshes, view the file submission by
selecting the title of the submission. Many file types are compatible
with the document viewer (such as doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pps, pdf, pdfs, htm,
html, txt, bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, png). The student’s paper will
appear in the document viewer.
9. Review the student’s submission and If desired, mark up the student’s submission through the annotations tool. If needed, review the
tutorial on how to utilize the annotations tool.
a. If the student has
submitted more than one file to the assignment, select the file drop-down
menu to the right of the student’s name in the top left corner of the
screen.
10. If needed, there are
three options to quickly access the assignment settings and to add special
access to the assignment for students by selecting the ellipsis icon on
the right side of the screen.
a. A drop-down menu will
appear. Select edit activity, preview activity, or special access
dates.
i. If edit activity is
selected, a new browser tab will open. Then once the assignment edit(s) have
been completed and saved, return to the assessment page and refresh your screen
before proceeding. If needed, refer to the tutorial on how to create an assignment.
ii. If preview activity is selected, a new browser tab will open. This option will show the assignment
instructions from the student view for quick reference.
iii. If special access is selected, a pop-up window will appear to provide special access to the
specified student that you are actively grading. If needed, refer to the
tutorial on how to grant special access on an assignment.
11. Once finished marking up the submission(s), enter a point
value in the overall grade field.
a. If desired, select the statistics
icon on the right of the overall grade field to view the assignment
statistics by class and user stats.
12. Next, provide feedback to the student in the overall
feedback textbox. For further instructions
on utilizing the editor textbox, please refer to the How to use the MyFIRE Editor tutorial.
a. Then if desired, choose to
either (A) upload a file, (B) record a 1-minute audio message, or (C) record up to a 30-minute video message to the student to provide
additional feedback.
13. Once done assessing the student, select Publish at
the bottom of the page.
a. If desiring to publish all
of the student scores at once or to finish grading at a later time, then select save draft. If needed, refer to the tutorial on how to manually publish multiple assignment scores at one time.
14. If wanting to grade the next student’s submission for the
assignment, select the left and right arrows in the top right corner of
the screen to continue to the next student’s submission.
15. If wanting to return to the assignment submission view for
the entire class, select the back to submissions link in the top left
corner of the screen.
