Moodle: Activities & Resources: Manually Grading a Quiz

Instructors must manually grade some question types in an activity. For example, essay questions cannot be auto-graded by Moodle and require a grader to input a grade. Manual grading is also an opportunity to provide timely and helpful feedback to students using the feedback area on the grading screen.

To Manually Grade a Quiz Question:

1. Click on the quiz with questions that need to be manually graded.
    
2. On the quiz page, click on the link to Attempts and scroll down to the list of students. This list can be filtered by several data points such as enrollment status, attempt status, and grading status.
   
   
    
3. There are a few options for finding the question you need to grade. Clicking on either Review attempt or Not yet graded will take you to the top of the quiz page. To go directly to the question that needs grading, click Requires grading in the question column.
   
   
    
4. When you click on "Requires grading," a pop-up will appear that contains data for that individual response. To enter a grade and leave feedback, click "Make comments or override points."
   
   
    
5. A new pop-up window will open where you can type in the Comment box and enter a grade. If you have entered information for graders in the quiz settings, this will display above the comment box.
   
   
    
6. Scroll down in the pop-up to save your response and the grade.
    

To Access Only Manually Graded Quiz Questions:

1. You can also go to a page that lists only the questions that need manual grading. To do this, enter the Quiz administration menu from the admin cog wheel in the upper right and click Results. In the dropdown menu, click Manual grading to see a list of only questions that need grading.
   
   
    
2. Clicking one of the grade links on a row will allow you to grade responses for that question. You can view the ones you need to "grade," need to "update grades" under Already graded or select "grade all" under Total to view all responses for that question.
   
   

• NOTE: For easier grading, you can download all essay submissions to your computer in a file. For more information, see Download Essay Submissions (Quiz).

Regrading Quiz Attempts

Regrading may be helpful if a question is incorrect or invalid and needs to be adjusted and then reassessed.

1. If one or more quiz attempts needs to be regraded, an instructor or grader can select the specific attempts and click Regrade selected attempts on the attempts screen.
   
   
    
2. To regrade all attempts or run a practice regrading to see how scores would change, click Regrade all or Dry run a full regrade at the top of the attempts list. Scores from a dry run are not added to the gradebook.
   
   
    

Need More Help?

For more information on activities and resources, read the following documentation from Moodle Docs. Note that the documentation does not show the current Moodle theme, but the functionality of the settings is the same. All links will open in a new window.

• MoodleDocs: Quiz activity
• MoodleDocs: Effective quiz practices
• MoodleDocs: Question types