Your quiz may have a range of question types, including essay and/or short answer. TheEssay question is
the only one designed for manual grading.
Manually grade an essay question
The Manual grading report enables markers to manually grade written submissions within a quiz. This grading method is automatic for the Essay question type (irrespective of what the quiz is set to).
In the topic, click on the Quiz activity
Click on the Actions menu cog in the top-right corner, then select Manual grading
In the Questions that need grading screen, click on the grade link in the To grade column
Use the Options section to choose which questions to mark and the order in which they appear
Underneath the options, you will see a list of student responses to be marked. The student's response appears in the blue box. Include your comments and a mark in the green box
Click Save and go to next page when you have finished marking all those displayed. When you have marked all of the questions, you will be prompted to return to the Questions that need grading screen, with the responses that you marked now appearing in the Already graded column.
Manually grade automatically graded questions
If you want to manually grade questions other than the essay question (eg the Short answer question type), you will have to override the automatic mark for that question.
In the topic, click on the Quiz activity
Click on the Actions menu cog in the top right corner, then select Manual grading
Click on Also show questions that have been graded automatically (above the table of questions and grades)
In the next screen, find the Already graded column and click on the Update grades link
Use the Options section to choose which questions to mark and the order in which they appear
Underneath the Options, you will see a list of student responses to be marked. The student's response appears in the blue box. Include your comments and a mark in the green box. Save the changes.
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