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Let’s look at how to do this: So go into
one of your courses. You might do this, follow along with me if you have
two monitors, you can have the video on one and then work in
PolyLearn on the other monitor.
First thing you want to do is go into your course and “Turn editing on.”
So, that puts you more in the instructor role with the abilities
to add content.
When you’re in the instructor role in PolyLearn,
by turning editing on, you’ll see all these different editing icons.
So, I’m gonna make a new one here and
what you do is you select “Add an activity”
or resource,” and then you’ll see choices
under Assignments. Remember I said that the Rubric or the
Marking Guide has to be
attached to an Assignment or a Workshop. Workshops are down here.
Uh, we’re not going to cover that today but that is an exciting
tool as well. So, in the Assignments, you have
four choices in the types of Assignments you might use:
Advanced uploading of files: And that means
you can upload more than one file. So if a student has an Assignment
that requires several files to complete… let’s say they have a
report as well as some images, you would want to choose that one.
Online text: This one allows them to type text
in a box that is provided for them -- a text box in Moodle
in a box that’s provided for them -- a text box in Moodle.
It’s more for a short -- very short -- maybe paragraph, two paragraphs
answer about something.
Upload a single file: Allows a student
on the Assignment to just upload one file. We don’t suggest that you
use that one very often because you never know when you might have
something more than one file on an Assignment and you didn’t think
about it, and you can’t change that later… you have to go redo the
whole Assignment, so that’s a pain. So it’s just more prudent
to choose “Advanced uploading of files” all the time ‘cause it doesn’t matter
if there’s only one file in there, but it allows you that freedom not to have to redo it
if you somehow decided you needed more than one file sent
from the student. And then an “Offline activity”: This one is used
quite a lot because it just allows you to give instructions to
the student about what to do for the Activity and it makes a grade book
column for that Activity for you to grade and also provides the
Rubric or the Marking Guide, but they turn in the
particular assignment in class or some other way… maybe emailing it
to you or whatever, instead of putting it up in PolyLearn so
that is one you can use as well and still use the Rubric.
So I’m gonna pick “Offline activity” here and I’m going to pick the “Add” button
So now we’re going to add the Assignment. We need to
supply an Assignment name, so I’m going to call this “Concert
Report #3, and then in the “Description” area here,
uh… this is where you would put the instructions to your students.
Now this might include as well those instructions I told you about
where you tell them how to view the Rubric. I’m gonna cheat
here right now, and just put
“See the syllabus,” pretending that
I wrote out all the instructions in the syllabus, but the best thing to do
it would be to write them all here. I’m just not going to take the time
for that right now. Then you also choose to display the “Description on
the course page,” if you want them to be able to see the instructions
right there. Of course, you could do all kinds of things up here like
change the font to match your course, and size, etc.
I think I’ll just make that bold so they see that the instructions are there.
Then you go on down here to
the “Available from” and the “Due date” so what
date are you going to make it available to the students, and we’ll just
leave it. Today’s the 29th of October so we’ll just leave it for that.
umm… let’s have made it 9 AM.
And make sure “Enable” is turned on.
And then, when is this Assignment due, so I
I’m going to pick the 2nd of December.
Give them a little time to get this done. And I’m going to
pick almost midnight. The closest I could get to midnight
is 11:55 PM. Of course, that would be
in the day -- in the morning -- so I did that wrong. I want 23:55
and this is in military time, obviously, so that would be 11:55, so as close to
midnight. I found that if you put it at 12:00 AM, then it’s confusing
because that’s really the midnight of the day before,
so you kind of have to play with it there.
Make sure “Enable” is also checkmarked here.
In the grade area, we want to choose how many points this is going to be worth.
So, you can choose up to 250 points here.
I don’t want this Assignment to be worth that much. You can pick
no grade whatsoever, or Credit / No Credit. I’m going to make this Assignment
worth 50 points so choose 50.
In the “Grading method,” I will choose “Rubric.” I was going to show you the Rubric
first, and then I’ll show you the Marking Guide later. So we’re picking
“Grading Method is Rubric.” You will not see this pull-down menu in
other areas except for in the Assignment and the Workshop tools.
which I d
If I had some Grade categories set up in my grade book, which I do not,
I could choose the type of Grade category it would go into right there.
Uh, it’s telling me an Offline activity.
I don’t need to set up Groups. I’m not going to restrict access,
‘cause I sort of controlled that with the “Available from dates” and the “Due date.”
And instead of “Save and return to course,” I’m going to pick “Save
and display,” because that will take me onward to set up my rubric.
Then we come to this Advanced grading page
and if I change my mind at this point, I could still switch over to
making it a Marking Guide, but I’m going to keep it at Rubric.
And then I want to pick “Define a new grading form from scratch.”
Now, if you’ve created some in the past, you can actually choose
from your own templates of the past
and use those, but I’m just going to start from scratch here so...
… and now I have some things to fill out
to make my Rubric. So I’m going to put a
“Name” here, and I’m going to call it the “Concert Report #3 Rubric.”
And, this is one of the few places where Description’s not required,
you can see because it’s not in red and doesn’t have the asterisk.
But if I wanted to, I could describe what this Rubric is about.
But if I wanted to, I could describe what this Rubric is about.
So, underneath the ”Description” box here, we have the
area where you put in the criterion one-by-one and choose the levels.
Now I prefer my levels to go
from the most amount of points descending
and by default, Moodle puts it
ascending. So you can see 0 points, and 1 point, 2 points, so if I
want to change this, I can go down to “Sort order for levels”
and change it from “Ascending by number of points” to “Descending by
number of points.” Now nothing will happen right then to see it
so I have to pick “Save as draft” -- go out for a moment,
So now I’ve saved as a draft and I can go in now
and edit the current form and it will be
by descending points.
And I can change these point values as well.
If I somehow need to get back into this area for editing, the
easiest way to do it is to click
the Assignment, back on the main
page. So you click that Assignment, and then you will see
a section on the left in “Settings” that says “Advanced grading”
and you open up that toggle and pick “Define rubric”
and you’re back in this area again, so
perhaps you need to save the draft to go to a committee meeting or
something like that, and you haven’t finished it. You can just save the draft
with that button at the bottom here, and then get
back in by clicking on the Assignment link on the main home
page and then pick “Advanced grading” and
“Define rubric.” Ok, so here we want to put in a criterion
“Clear concert information.” The date of the concert, etc. --
that’s one of the criterion. And then
I want to explain what that means.
So in this case, maybe it means providing all four of those items
requested here: “Date of concert,” “Location,” “Name of Orchestra,”
This one would be that the student provides maybe “three of the
requested items. And here we’ll change that to “two
of the requested items.” And I’m going to add another
level -- I actually want four levels -- and so “Provides
at least one of the requested items.”
Ok? Let’s say "at least one
or none.” Now I want to change these points so I just click down here
and I can make that 4 points if they do everything they’re supposed to,
3, 2, and 1 point.
Now I can just go and add some more criterion by clicking the “Add
criterion” button and type in the next one.
In this case,
I want something to do with the description of the pieces performed,
so… perhaps they gave me an impressive description
and it goes on and tells them what that is.
The student gives me a good description,
type in an adequate
description is given.
Or perhaps
the student didn’t really give me
a description at all.
And then you would just continue in a like manner here,
adding all the criterion you want, however many levels, you can keep going here if you want
more levels. You can have more levels for one than another as well so
I might want more levels for this one
but not in that one and you can do that.
Then, you go down here. You pick the “Rubric options.” We already messed
with the “Descending by number of points” and these are your other options:
“Allow users to preview the rubric used in the module,”
otherwise, the rubrics only become available after grading,
so you want that one turned on, like we talked about.
You really want your students to be able to see the rubric beforehand,
before they attempt the Assignment.
“Display the rubric description during evaluation.”
“Display the rubric description to those being graded.”
“Display points for each level during evaluation.”
“Display points for each level to those being graded.”
“Allow the grader to add text remarks for each criteria.”
That will give you the feedback boxes we talked about.
And “Show the remarks to those being graded.”
So, I’m pretty much done with this rubric. It’s only two criterion.
Obviously, you would make a larger one. But just for the point of showing you
that’s where I’m gonna stop. So “Save the rubric and make it ready.”
That makes it ready to the students.
So, when you go to grade, it will look something like this.
And as you roll your mouse over
the various levels, it turns green, and you pick the one you want
for this student. Because I asked for the
feedback boxes,
feedback boxes,
and I can make final overall feedback here for the whole report
if I want to. And if I pick “Send notifications,” it will
email the student that I have graded. Then I would click “Save changes.”
Another thing is how do you grade the rubric? Well, when you have editing
turned on like we do here (it will say “Turn editing off”
‘cause it toggles, and you just click on the
Assignment link, as we did before,
you just click on “View assignment grades and feedback” on the top
right, and then you’ll see your students. I only have one student
listed here because this is a bogus class.
And so you pick the student and click on the link for “Grade”
next to their name,
then all you would need to do is click on the
levels that they achieved and write any feedback in the boxes.
And provide any kind of overall feedback here, and send notifications to the
the student that you’ve graded it and hit “Save changes.”
Let’s take a look at using the Marking Guide; it’s very similar to the Rubric
Here I have a Marking Guide example set up
and let’s just go and look at that for a moment.
You can see the difference here is that you have your criterion
kind of loosely stated; you don’t have levels.
You have an area here for feedback, and you have an area here for a
score -- so many out of 5 or however you determine that
score amount will be in your evaluation.
You have the “Frequently used comments,” which
if you just click in the box, and then hit one
of your “Frequently used comments,” it goes in there.
You can type in these boxes,
etc., and then again at the bottom you can provide
overall feedback, if you want. You can add a file, so if you wanted to
track changes and make comments on a Word document, or something like that,
you could just put the file in here and upload it back to the student
and hit “Save changes.” Again, there’s a “Send notifications”
to tell the student that you have graded their work and they can look at it now.
So let’s go back and set up a Marking Guide. It’s very similar
to the way you set up a Rubric.
So here we add an Activity.
you pick an “Offline activity” again. You can pick any of the four Activities.
You give it a “Name.”
Give it a “Description.” This is where you should probably provide some
instructions and again, tell the student how to get
to view it beforehand, as we did with the Rubric.
Make an “Available from” date, a “Due date,” how many
points that you want it to be worth -- and this is the important part: the Grading
method” instead of “Simple direct grading,” which is no Rubric or no Marking Guide,
you pick “Marking Guide.” You can categorize
it into a grade category, if you have your grades categorized.
We’ll not put it in a group and
and that’s about all we need to do. Click “Save and display”
and then “Define a new grading
form from scratch, and you name
this Marking Guide. So I’m going to call it “Concert Report #3” Marking Guide
You don’t need to provide a “Description” here as you did before, as
you can see, the Description here is not in red with an asterisk, which
means it’s not a required field.
Then here, you click to give a criterion name
so let’s say I’m concerned about spelling
grammar, and punctuation. And you can have a “Description for the Students,”
if you want to -- you don’t have to. You can have a “Description for your Markers”--
those are the people who are grading, or as a little clue to yourself to remind yourself
what you’re looking for, and a Maximum mark, so in this case
that’s going to be worth 5 points. You just keep
adding criterion in the same manner,
adding criterion in the same manner,
Keep adding criterion and then starting writing your “Frequently used comments”
by clicking here.
“Add another Frequently used comment” so it gives you another box
etc. You show the Guide Definition to students if you click here or
show the marks per criterion to students clicking here. You can “Save as
as a draft” and come back into it by going back in here into the
“Advanced grading” like we did for the Rubric and “Define the Marking Guide”
That’s simply done by clicking on the link
for the Assignment and then it will show this over here. Or you can
then save the Marking Guide and make it ready.
And that would be the end of that!
Same thing when you want to grade
it with the Marking Guide. You click on the Assignment name
and it shows “No attempts have been made on this assignment”
but you can still look at it there.
This was the old one that I did, so it looks a little bit different than the fake one I was
setting up there for you. And that’s it!
There are definitely times that you would use the
Marking Guide, and there’s definitely times you would use the Rubric
and I think that you can figure out which one works best for you.
The Rubric is especially helpful for things that might be more subjective on a
final project or a final paper -- things like that. The Marking Guide
can be used, you know, on a weekly basis if you wish, for
just being more thorough in your grading feedback.