Using Oncourse CL Assignments, how do I grade or return an assignment or review a student's status?

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Note: This document applies to the default Assignments tool in Oncourse CL. For instructions for the pilot Assignments Beta tool, see Assignments Beta.

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

Grading or returning an assignment

You can grade an assignment with or without returning it to the student, and you can return it with or without a grade. The basic steps are the same:

In the menubar, click Assignments. You will see a list of assignments. The "In / New" column displays the number of submissions that have come in from students (the "In" value) and the number of new submissions (the "New" value) for each assignment.
Under the name of the assignment you want to grade, click Grade. You will see the assignment along with student submissions.

Note: To assign the same grade to all participants without grades, next to "Assign this grade to all participants without a grade", select or enter a default grade, and then click Apply.
To view a student's submission and start grading, click Grade below the student's name.
Under "Assignment Submission", you'll see the student's submitted text. If applicable, under "Submitted Attachments", you'll see links to files the student submitted.

Note: If a student has saved an assignment as a draft, the Grade option will still appear below the student's name, but you will be unable to see the text of the student's draft. You will see a warning that the student may still be working on the assignment, but you can enter summary comments and a grade just as you ordinarily would.
To leave comments, you have the following options:
- You can add comments to the student's submitted text by enclosing your comments in double curly brackets, for example: {{Cite your sources, please.}}
  The student will see your comments appear in red.
- Under "Instructor Comments", you can enter summary comments in the text box (no special formatting is required).
To add an attachment to return with the grade, click Add Attachments. For instructions, see Options for adding attachments.
Next to "Grade", select the grade for the student's assignment, or enter points in the box.
If you wish to allow the student to resubmit the assignment, check Allow Resubmission, and use the drop-down menu to set the number of resubmissions allowed. Then, next to "Accept Until", set a resubmission deadline.
When you're finished grading, you can click Return Assignment to Student to make the student's assignment grade immediately available.
To save your changes (without returning the grade to the student) and return to the list of submitted assignments list (so you can continue grading), click Save.

You can also click Preview to see how the returned assignment will look to the student, or click Cancel to cancel any changes and return to the assignment list.

Note: You can return assignments to students with or without grades.
When you have finished grading student assignments and are ready to send grades to the Gradebook, above the list of submissions, click Release Grades.

Reviewing student status for all assignments

You can view a list of your students, and see each one's status for each assignment. You can see whether the student has submitted the assignment, the assignment status, and the grade (if one has been assigned). To do so:

In the menubar, click Assignments.
Next to "View", use the drop-down list to select Assignment List by Student.
To view the status of a student's assignment submissions, click the black arrow next to the student's name. To hide the student's information, click the arrow again.

This is document arda in domains all, oncoursecl, sakai-all, and sakaiht.
Last modified on June 09, 2009.