Assignments can be
utilized for many types of assessments by instructors. There are multiple ways
to grade assignments. This tutorial demonstrates how to grade an assignment
from within the assignment submission folder with a rubric in MyFIRE.
- Access the desired course in MyFIRE.
- Select the instructor tools tab
at the top of the page.
3. A drop-down menu will appear. Select course admin.
4. When the page refreshes, locate and select assignments.
5. When the page loads, a list of the assignments that have
been created in the course will appear. Select the desired assignment.
Additionally, 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, start, and end
date(s) if added.
6. When the page refreshes, a list of the students will
appear. Locate the student that you would like to assess.
7. Select evaluate to the right of each student’s name
or the title of the file submission.
8. When the page refreshes, the student’s paper will appear in
the document viewer. Review the student’s submission.
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.
9. If desired, mark up the student’s submission through
the annotations tool. If needed, review the utilize the annotations tool tutorial.
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, return to
the assessment page and refresh your screen before proceeding. If needed, refer
to the tutorial on how to create an assignment.
i.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.
ii. 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), locate the evaluation panel to assess the student on the right side of the
screen.
12. When assessing a student with a rubric, the rubric title
and icon will be visible under the Rubrics title. Select the rubric name to open and assess the student through the rubric.
a. If a rubric’s status is changed to archived after the
rubric has been connected to an assessment, an archived tag will appear
below the rubric title where the rubric is displayed. Archived rubrics can
still be evaluated and archiving a rubric does not remove it from activities or
published feedback. Students are able to see the archived tag.
13. The rubric will open within the evaluation
panel.
a. If needed, expand the evaluation panel to view the rubric
in a larger window by selecting and dragging the toggle bar to the
left.
b. If the rubric is too
large, instructors have the option to expand the view of the rubric in a table
format through a pop-up window by selecting the pop-out icon in the top
right corner of the page.
i.If the pop-out icon is
selected, the rubric will appear in a separate pop-out window that can be
resized if desired. With this view, assess the students by selecting the desired
level for each criterion.
ii. If needed, provide additional feedback to students for each
criterion by selecting the add feedback link.
iii. If needed, increase or decrease the students’ default
rubric scores by selecting the score field to the right of the criterion
row.
1. Then use the up and
down arrows to set the desired score or type the desired
score.
iv. Once finished assessing the student through the rubric in
the pop-out window, select close at the bottom of the window and
continue to step 17.
14. Assess the student by selecting the cells in the
criterion bar for the appropriate score level for each criterion
row.
a. Instructors can also select the left and right arrows to scroll and view all of the criterion levels.
b. Once the criterion bar is
selected, the level selection will show a checkmark and will
automatically save.
c. The level title and
description appear below the criterion bar.
15. Once a point level is selected for each criterion
row, determine if additional feedback is needed. If additional feedback is
needed, select add feedback under the desired criteria section.
16. Then determine if the student’s score needs to be manually
adjusted. If the score needs to be adjusted, select the score for the
desired criteria on the right side of the criterion section.
a. Once the score is selected, the cell will refresh to show
an editable field to adjust the point value for the desired criteria. Either type
the new score or use the up and down arrows to set the desired score.
b. Once the criteria score
has been set, the score cell will be highlighted bluewith an asterisk on the
right.
i.Additionally, an option to
clear the edited score will appear. To clear the edited score, select clear
override.
17. If more than one rubric is attached to the
assignment, determine which rubric will be used to grade the student by
selecting the appropriate rubric from the grading rubric drop-down menu.
18. As each criterion is assessed, the overall score for the
assignment will automatically be calculated in the overall grade field.
19. If desired, select the statistics icon on the right
of the overall grade field to view the assignment statistics by class and user
stats.
a. If selected, a pop-up window will appear showing the
statistics for the rubric. Instructors can view either class statistics or user statistics.
b. Once finished viewing the
rubric statistics, select close at the bottom of the pop-up
window.
20. Once each criterion has been assessed, the rubric icon at
the top of the evaluation panel will change to show a checkmark on the
rubric icon signifying that an assessment has been completed.
Note: If a rubric icon does not show a checkmark once
finished assessing the student through the rubric, review the rubric to ensure
that no criterion level has been missed.
21. Next, if desired, provide overall feedback to the student
in the overall feedback textbox. For
further instructions on utilizing the editor textbox, refer to the utilize 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.
22. Once done assessing the student, select publish at
the bottom of the page. Note: Once the grade is published or updated,
students will receive an instant notification to their SEU email and Pulse app
account that their assignment has been graded.
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 manually publish multiple assignment scores tutorial.
b. If attempting to publish
or save the assessment in the middle of scoring the assignment through the
rubric, a pop-up window will appear stating that not all rubric criteria
have been scored.
i.Select either continue
grading or publish anyway.
Note: If publish anyway is selected, the student’s grade
will reflect only the partial assessment, but the student may think it is their
total score.
23. 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.
24. 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.
