Overview
Marking Workflow prevents students seeing feedback and marks until a staff user "releases" them. Using it means there is no need to hide the submission link itself.
Contents
- Video
- How to check whether marking workflow is turned on
- How to do your marking
- Releasing the feedback all at once
- Further Support
Video
How to check whether it is turned on
Any summative assessments created by SPA will have Marking Workflow turned on already.
To check that it is turned on, you edit the Assignment's settings
Find the Grade section of the settings. You'll see Marking workflow is set to "Yes".
How to do your marking
Each student submission has a Marking Workflow state. Initially this is set to "Not Marked" for all students. There are 6 possible states. Only one of the states ("Released") means students can see their marks and feedback. You can use the other 5 states as you see fit, as they all mean the students can not see feedback and marks.
As you mark each student's work, you may change this setting (for example, to "Marking completed") or you may leave them all as "Not marked". The choice is yours. However, do not set any to "Released" while marking is in progress.
Releasing the feedback all at once
When you have completed the marking, the submissions list should look like this:
You will see there is a mark in "Grade" but the "Final grade" column is empty. Now, to release the marks there are three steps.
Step A - Make sure all students are showing in the submissions list:
1. Filter by name: make sure the First name and Last name filters are set to All.
2. At the bottom of the page, set Show assignments per page to ALL
Step B - Change marking state
3. Click into the checkbox beneath Select to select all students
4. Scroll down and click More
5. Click the Change marking state option
Step C - Release grades to students
6. Click the Change marking state button
7. Click into the marking flow state drop-down and select Released
8. Click Save Changes
Further Support
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