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Manually Grade Assignments

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Video Tutorial: Manually Grade Assignments

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Video Tutorial: Manually Grade Assignments

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  1. Click Assignments in Spark.

  2. Click Manual Grading only.

  3. Scroll to the assignment you want and click manually graded activities icon.

    The manually graded activity in that assignment opens, including the name of the student who submitted the activity.

  4. If there are multiple manually graded questions within the activity, click Next question button or Previous question button at the bottom of the screen to navigate to the other questions.

  5. If there are multiple manually graded activities within the assignment, click the arrows next to the activity name to navigate to the other activities.

    A screenshot of a manual grading activity in the teacher UI with all the content blurred out, except the assignment name, current activity name and the left and right navigation arrows inside a red box callout.

  6. After you have reviewed all the student's answers, mark their score in the Points field.

  7. Add a comment for the student. The comment will be sent as a message to the student's inbox.

  8. Click Submit.

  9. Click the arrows next to the student's name to view and grade the next student's manually graded activities on that assignment.

    Screenshot of the manually graded activity of a student with the majority of the image blurred, to highlight the forward and backward arrows next to a student's name.

  10. When you have graded all the students' answers, click Exit activity to exit.