Introduction

Grade students' feedback based on their own selected best contributions. Create a safe online learning environment in which students feel free to contribute because they feel the safety of only being graded on what they themselves mark as their best comments.

A participation grading module can be added to your Peer Review, Group Member Evaluation or Interactive Study Material assignment.

Participation Grading in Action

Let's have a look at the setup of a Peer Review assignment with Participation Grading.

Click the add button below step 4 of your Peer Review assignment, or below step 3 of a Group Member Evaluation assignment.

Figure 1: Adding Participation Grading
 

Click the Participation Grading module.

Figure 2: New step is added: Participation Grading

A new step is inserted into your assignment. Either in between step 4 and 5 or in-between step 2 and 3 for Group Member Evaluation, the new step Select your best comment is displayed.

Fill out your instructions - it's good to consider what is expected of the students and let them know if you will be grading their feedback, for instance, based on what they themselves select as their best provide feedback to their peer.

Is there a deadline? Students can change their selection until you as a teacher has sent a grade or if a deadline is set, till the deadline has passed. Be aware of the total amount of deadlines you set in one assignment.

Figure 3: Grading options on a scale 

Comments are graded on a scale from 1 to 10.

To adjust the number of comments a student has to select, click Settings and a menu will dropdown. Click the number on the right at Required submissions and fill in the number of comments that you want each student to submit. This way, you can grade their feedback based on multiple comments, not just on one.

Figure 4: Setting Required contributions

Save your assignment after adjusting the right settings of the Peer Review assignment. Students start handing in their work and reviewing each other, after which they will be able to select their best contribution(s).

Once students have selected their best comment(s), you will see this in your overview. Click grade contributions to grade multiple students at once, or grade for an individual student. 

Figure 5: Grade contributions

Below you can see the selected comment of Fatoş_s6. You can grade this comment on a scale from 1 to 10. By clicking submit and back to assignment the grade is not yet sent to the student.

Figure 6: Grading comments on a scale from 1 to 10

After grading all comments from all students, you can click make grade visible to student. After you have sent out the grades, students can no longer change their selection of comments. Students can change their selection until you as a teacher has sent a grade or if a deadline is set, till the deadline has passed.

Figure 7: Make grade visible to student

If necessary, you can still change the grade of a student. In this case, you don't have to send out grades again, it will change automatically.

Figure 8: Grades automatically changed