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Spotcheck Student Work

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  1. Select a “Spotcheck” method.  

    NOTE: You may review the submission statistics for each student to determine which Spotcheck method is most appropriate. 

  • Random: A randomly ordered and selected list of student submissions is generated for you. 
  • Outliers: This is an ordered list of student submissions based on submission statistics; time is the priority statistic, followed by length of response for you to use.  

  • Manual: You select the students you wish to include. 
     

    Screenshot of the “Grading - Spotcheck” page showing options to select students (Random, Outliers, Manual), a dropdown to choose how many outliers to review, and a table listing a student’s submission length, time spent, number of spotchecks, and cumulative grade, with a “spotcheck” button on the right.
  1. Select students to spotcheck. For Random and Outliers, use the drop-down menu to select the number of students to include. For Manual, check the box beside a student name to include the student. 
Screenshot of the “Grading - Spotcheck” page with “Outliers” selected, a dropdown set to “1”
  1. Click spotcheck.

NOTE: Spotcheck opens the grading set in student-by-student mode. 

  1. Grade the student’s submission by entering a grade or by clicking the 0% or 100% quick-grade buttons.
     
Screenshot of a Warning message with a triangular alert icon stating that manually entered grades must be less than or equal to the possible points for the question, shown above a grading interface with a text response field, score input out of 15, comments box, and record button.

 

  1. When appropriate, use the editing tools to enter comments or simply type your corrections within the student’s response. See “Using the Inline Editing Tools” for more information. 

 

  1. Click “next.” 

 

  1. Repeat steps 4–6 to grade each subsequent submission in the set.  

NOTE: A “previous” button is available to navigate to previous submissions. 

 

  1. Click “SAVE & DONE” after grading the last student in the set. 
Save and Done button
  1. If other student submissions for this assignment still need grading, a “finish spotchecking” popup will prompt you to quick grade the remaining submissions to 100%. Check the box if you would like to award 100% to all remaining submissions.

NOTE: A comment is required. 
 

  1. Click “finish spotchecking.” 
     
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