Grading Constructed Response Questions

This article will guide you through the process of manually scoring student responses to items that are not auto-scored on an assessment. 

To start, access your list of assessments and click on the administrations within the specific assessment that contains responses that need to be manually scored. From the landing page, click the View Assessments tile.

Once you get to the main assessment page, you will be presented with a list of assessments you are able to use. Go through the following steps to get to an assessment's details:

1. Use the filter options on the left hand side of the page.
2. Click on the Search button to filer down the assessment results.
3. Identify your assessment, and click on the assessment title.

Once you click on the assessment title, you will be presented with a number of titles that represent different sections you have access to within an assessment. To access the assessment administrations, click on the Administrations tile.

When viewing the list of administrations for an assessment, click on the number of students who are rostered for that administration. Clicking on the number of students will take you to the live proctoring view for that administration.

Any question within live proctoring that is blue is a question that will need to be scored by a teacher or someone with a shared grading permission. Another indicator is the question results bar at the top. If you hover over a question bar that has blue, that means there are students who have answers that still need to be scored. Click on the question number to score all student responses for that question.

Once you are viewing an individual question, you can begin to grade individual responses. You can grade responses through a few pathways:

• Quick Grading: The bottom right of each tile contains the current score for that student response. You can click on that area of the tile to reveal an input form to save a score value.
• Detailed Grading: Click anywhere in the top portion of the student response tile to display a detailed pop-up of the students response. In the bottom left of the pop-up, you will see an input box to save a score for that student response.
• Mass Grading: This is a more advanced feature, but a teacher can score multiple questions at a time. From the mass grading pop-up, a teacher can give full credit for all response, mass fill with a specific score value or remove all manual scores.

Once a response is scored, an icon will appear in the top right corner of the student's response tile indicating the response has been manually scored. If you want to remove the manual score, simply click on the icon and select the option to remove the manual score.