Blackboard Assessment Tools Flexible Grading Interface - Staff Guide

Supported Configurations

The following settings do not support the flexible grading interface:

• 2 graders per student
• Peer review

If using these configuration, please see our guide on how to grade and add feedback for information on the older interface.

Tour of the flexible grading interface

The interface is similar for both Blackboard Assignment and Test tools. You access the student's submissions from the Gradebook.

When the assessment opens, you will see a panel on the left which will default to the grade by student view.

You can use the grading status filter to define which students display in this left panel e.g. just those which need grading. You can also change the order of the papers by clicking the icon with the down pointing arrow next to the grading status filter. Then you can click on the student's name/anonymous ID as required to grade their paper. During grading, you can close this panel via the left pointing arrow at the top.

 

For Tests, you may wish to grade by question. To do this, switch to the Questions view in the left panel. You should now see a list of all the questions in the left panel with the current marking status. Again, you can use the Grading Status filter to just show those which need grading. Click on a question to view all responses and mark as required.

The main part of the webpage will display the student submission(s). Where there is more than one attempt, you can switch between the submissions using the drop down menu above the student submission. By default you will see the most recent submission.

Where there is more than one file for the attempt, you can navigate between them via the tabbed interface.

If the submission is an Assignment and a supported file type, you will see the submission inline and can use the Annotate tool to add comments/annotations directly to the submission.  See our guide on Annotate for more information on these tools.

To add feedback, open the feedback panel on the right via the arrow (or by clicking the overall feedback icon). The content editor now contains a recording tool if you wish to add an audio/video comment, accessed via the + icon. See our guide on the recording tool for more information on this. If your Assessment uses a rubric, this can also be accessed via the right panel.

If using a rubric to mark, grade fields will automatically populate. If you do not use a rubric, enter your grade above the student paper next to the field containing the submission date/time: