Grade quizzes in myCourses

All question types are graded automatically in myCourses except Written response questions. Students will receive zero for these questions until they are graded manually.

A Pending evaluation status will appear besides quiz attempts that require manual grading on the Grade quiz page. 

If you need to grade (or regrade) any other question type, such as True/False or Multiple Choice, after students have taken a quiz, see Edit, regrade, and delete quiz questions in myCourses.

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Grade by question

This option allows you to grade all students' responses for a single question.

1. On the main Quizzes page, click the arrow beside the quiz and select Grade.

2. Click the Questions tab.

3. Select the radio button beside Grade individual responses. You can also select/deselect either of the following options:

   • View evaluated responses: Deselect this checkbox to see only the responses you have not yet graded.

   • Hide learners’ names: Select this checkbox to hide students' names when grading.

4. Click on the title of the question to grade.

5. Grade your students' responses:

   1. Enter a numeric Score.

   2. (Optional) Click Expand question feedback to enter comments for the student.

   3. Click Save and continue to go to the next student who attempted the question.

   4. Repeat for all students.

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Grade by attempts

This option allows you to view an entire quiz attempt, to grade more than one question manually for an individual student. This may be useful if you have a quiz with multiple Written Response questions.

1. On the main Quizzes page, click the arrow beside the quiz and select Grade.

2. Click on a student's attempt number.

3. Grade the student's attempt:

   1. Scroll to the question(s) you wish to grade manually.

      

      When grading a quiz attempt, you can filter only the questions that require manual evaluation.  In the Question View drop-down menu select Pending Evaluations.

   2. Enter the Score.

   3. (Optional) Click Expand question feedback to enter comments for the student.

   4. Click Publish to post the grade or Save draft to save the score.

   5. Click the arrow at the top of the page to go back to the Attempts page.

   6. Repeat for all attempts.

To discard any changes made when evaluating click on Reset evaluation. This will also remove all manual scores and question feedback.

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Export quiz scores to the grade book

If the scores from your quiz were not automatically exported to the Grades tool, you must make sure there is a grade item associated with the quiz and then export the scores manually.

1. Make sure the quiz is associated with a Grade Item:

   1. On the main Quizzes page, click the name of the quiz.

   2. Make sure there is a Grade Item selected for your quiz. If not, click the In Gradebook drop-down menu and click Edit or Link to Existing.

   3. Click Save.

2. Mark the attempts as Published to Export the scores:

   1. On the main Quizzes page, click the arrow beside the name of the quiz and select Grade.

   2. From the Users tab, click the checkbox beside the First Name column to select and publish all attempts, or click to add a checkbox next to specific students to select their attempts.

   3. Click Publish Feedback to publish the grade and related comments.

   4. Repeat for any additional pages of students.

You can use Retract feedback to cancel published feedback.

If you select the check boxes Synchronize to grade book and Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion when you set up the quiz, scores will be exported to the Grades tool automatically after students complete the quiz. Any ungraded written response questions remain as pending evaluation until the instructor manually grades them.

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Release quiz feedback to students

If you entered comments for students, you must set up a Submission view for the quiz to allow students to see the feedback. See Release quiz answers to students for more information.

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Read more:

• Best practices: The Quiz tool (Brightspace Documentation)

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