Grade a Video Assignment

Visit the Assignments tool

Select the Assignments tool from the Tools Menu in your site.

Select the assignment to grade

Click the Grade link for the assignment you would like to grade.

Select a student to grade

You will see a list of all the students in the class, along with the submission date, status, grade, and release columns for each student. You may sort by any of these columns by clicking on the title of the column if desired.

Click upon the name of the student that you wish to grade.

Click Preview

If your student has embedded a video as part of their submission, the Preview option will allow you to click to view the video within the next page.

View the video

Click the video's play icon to view. Note that videos can be paused, restarted, or re-watched as needed.

When you're prepared to record your feedback for a student, click the Edit button to leave the preview area.

Enter grade

Enter the score for the student's assignment in the grade entry text box provided.

Enter instructor comments

If you would like to include additional comments along with the grade, you may enter them into the rich text editor under the "Instructor Summary Comments" section.

Return an attachment

If you would like to return a file attachment to the student with additional feedback, click on the Add Attachments button to browse for and select a file.

Note: If you have returned more than one attachment to a particular a student, you may also click on Previous Returned Attachments to expand that section and view any other attachments that you have returned for this assignment.

Allow resubmissions

If you would like to allow the student to resubmit the assignment, you may check the Allow Resubmission box and specify the number of resubmissions allowed and the date until which they will be accepted.

Note: If you allowed resubmissions on the assignment when you created it, this information will be prepopulated with the default resubmission information for this assignment. However, you may override the default resubmission settings for an individual student by changing the information shown here.

Save grade

If you are finished grading and would like to release the information to the student, click the Save and Release to Student button. NOTE: If you have set up your assignment to send grades to the Gradebook, you will need to release grades to students in order for grades to appear in the Gradebook.

Alternately, if you would like to save the grade but wait and release to the student at a later date, you may select the Save and Don't Release to Student button instead.

Tip: Some faculty prefer to release all of the grades at one time when they have finished entering grades for the whole class.