{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-01T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T17:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:23:55","slug":"grading-as-good-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/grading-as-good-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading: As Good as It Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely, the way I&#8217;m grading in Moodle is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>Every other week, two of my classes takes a quiz online. Each quiz has 70% objective and 30% essay questions, plus a 10% essay for additional credit. That&#8217;s four essays per test.\n<\/p>\n<p>Moodle lets me see all the answers to the same question on one scrollable screen, using its Manual Grading feature. I can scan them all, then grade each, assigning points and comments all on that one screen.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/gradingscreen.png?w=648\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"9\" hspace=\"12\" border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I also open another tab with the same class, add a new resource (web page) to that week, call it &#8220;Quiz x Results&#8221; and copy and paste sample good answers into that file as I grade.\n<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m done, I edit the quiz by checking boxes to now show feedback and answers (I&#8217;d had them hidden till I finish grading all the tests). Then I go into Grades and move the quiz to the &#8220;graded&#8221; category so the totals update. Then I add a Latest News item (automatically emailed to students) saying I&#8217;m done and they can now see their grades and comments, plus the Results for sample good answers.\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy grading any more than I used to, but I&#8217;m thinking this is as good as it gets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely, the way I&#8217;m grading in Moodle is as good as it gets. Every other week, two of my classes takes a quiz online. Each quiz has 70% objective and 30% essay questions, plus a 10% essay for additional credit. That&#8217;s four essays per test. Moodle lets me see all the answers to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-how-to"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10120,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/10120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}