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Manual grading and resetting exercises

Mika Tompuri edited this page Jun 3, 2025 · 7 revisions

This page covers various topics related to grading exercises manually, and explains how to reset exercises for students.

Grade exercises manually

As a teacher, you can manually give points to students for their exercise submissions.

How to set up manual grading

  1. Create a new exercise (instructions Create new exercise).
  2. Enable peer review and/or self review. (Instructions: Peer review ‐ how to set up). Please note that currently it is not possible to set up manual grading without setting up either peer or self review.
  3. In creating the exercise: Peer and self review configuration -> Peer review processing strategy -> Manual review everything
  4. Remember to save the changes.

Process of reviewing answers manually

Once a student has submitted an answer and given and received enough peer reviews (and/or submitted a self review), you will see a number on a red background in the exercises tab. This means that there are answers waiting to be manually reviewed.

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Go to Exercises tab and scroll until you see an exercise with the tag 'View answers requiring attention'. Click on the tag to view answers and start grading.

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Under each submission, you have have different options for giving points (Zero points, Full points, Custom points). With custom points you can give any number of points between the minimum (0) and maximum. You can also view the reviews the student has received and given, and any reports given if the answer has been flagged by other students.

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Adjust exercise points awarded earlier

It is possible to adjust the points a student has received for a submission.

  1. In the admin view, select the Course instances tab
  2. Click View points button
  3. Find student in the list and click the student id link in leftmost column.
  4. Find the correct exercise and click view details:
  • Under Submissions heading, you can see the student answer.
  • You can also view the peer reviews that the student has received and given.
  1. Click the GIVE CUSTOM POINTS button and give the student the appropriate number of points.

Reset exercises

The exercise reset tool allows to you reset exercise progress for a specific

  • set of exercises (for example, all exercises without peer review) and
  • set of students (for example an individual student who submitted an answer to a wrong exercise).

NOTE! If the exercise you want to reset has peer reviews enabled, resetting exercise progress does not remove the peer reviews the student has given to other students not affect other students' progress on the course.

How to reset

In the admin view, select the 'Other' tab -> Exercise reset tool

Steps:

  1. Add students
  2. Set criteria
  3. Select exercises
  4. Submit and reset (and confirm)

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