Grade an Assignment

In Bright­space, instruc­tors can grade assign­ments using tools such as inline anno­ta­tion, rubrics, writ­ten and audio feed­back, with scores auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­ferred to the grade book, stream­lin­ing grad­ing while sup­port­ing mean­ing­ful stu­dent feed­back.

  • Remem­ber: To sync an assign­ment with your grade­book and have grades and feed­back auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­ferred from the Assign­ments tool to the Grades area, you must first asso­ciate the assign­ment with a grade item.

See Cre­ate a Basic Assign­ment on the Cre­ate an Assign­ment page to learn more.

There are three places where you can grade an assign­ment:

The Assign­ments tool allows instruc­tors to effi­cient­ly grade sub­mis­sions, pro­vide detailed feed­back, and auto­mat­i­cal­ly pub­lish scores to the grade book, and is best used when a file sub­mis­sion is required and you are work­ing direct­ly with­in a course, or when you are teach­ing only one or two cours­es and do not need the broad­er work­flow offered by the Quick Eval tool.

  1. Nav­i­gate to the Assign­ment you want to grade, click the drop-down menu and select View Sub­mis­sions.
  1. Click on the link to the stu­den­t’s sub­mis­sion that you want to grade.
  1. Grade the sub­mis­sion and either Save Draft or Pub­lish. *NOTE: If you choose Save Draft, you can pub­lish all grades and feed­back lat­er, allow­ing all stu­dents to receive their results at the same time.

Bright­space includes two Quick Eval views: a course-lev­el Quick Eval tool that dis­plays all assess­ment sub­mis­sions with­in a sin­gle course, and a Bright­space-wide Quick Eval view that aggre­gates sub­mis­sions from all cours­es, allow­ing instruc­tors to effi­cient­ly man­age and pri­or­i­tize grad­ing across their full teach­ing load.

View of course-lev­el Quick Eval. To grade the sub­mis­sion, sim­ply click on the stu­den­t’s name and con­tin­ue to grade as shown in the accor­dion above.

The Enter Grades page is best used when you need to man­u­al­ly input or adjust scores with­out review­ing a sub­mis­sion, such as for par­tic­i­pa­tion marks, in-class activ­i­ties, offline assess­ments, or grade cor­rec­tions.

  1. Nav­i­gate to Progress > Grades > Enter Grades
  1. Switch from Stan­dard View to Spread­sheet View.
  1. Click on the cor­rect cell and enter the stu­den­t’s grade. Click Save.

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