Manual grading of short answer questions allows teachers to mark a response as correct, even when it doesn’t match one of the expected answers. This is helpful when giving credit to students who understand a concept but worded their response differently. It also allows partial marks to be given to responses that are partially correct.

Manual grading is only available for short answer questions. Any adjusted marks or changes in points given will be shown in reports that are downloaded or distributed after those changes were made.

The manual grading feature lets teachers adjust the scoring of short answer questions once the assessment is complete. To do this, simply click on student responses in the live results table to review and update marks.

In the grading menu that appears, you can mark the answer as:

In the grading menu, you can also:

To return to the results list, click Done to save your changes and close this menu.

When manually grading a student’s response, you can also award partial credit—up to the maximum number of points assigned to that question when the assessment was created or edited. By default, each question is worth 1 point, so partial credit will typically default to 0.5 points.

Changing the number of points available for each question will require editing the questions in the assessment itself. The new point values will be displayed the next time the assessment is given.

Manually graded responses are displayed in the results table with a folded top-right corner. If partial marks are given, the corresponding cell in the results table will be highlighted in yellow.