The Submission status section provides a summary of the assignment for this student, including which attempt this piece of work is, the current submission and grading status of the piece of work, the date the work was submitted, and access to any submitted work. The submitted work can be in the form of a hyperlink to a file or the content of the online submission. For the Task 1 assignment, students were required to submit a file for their work, and we can see from the following screenshot that Bayley W has submitted his assignment:

When files are uploaded, the teacher can click on them in order to open them to view the content.

The Grade section will enable us to assign a grade and provide feedback to students, as shown in the following screenshot:

The first option is to select the grade for the piece of work. The grade will depend on the type of grade we selected when creating the assignment. For Task 1, we selected scale grade, so we are provided with a drop-down list from which we can choose our grade. When grading this assignment for the first time, the Grade drop-down list will say No grade. If this work is being regraded, then the currently assigned grade will be shown in this list.

The next option within the Grade section is Marking workflow state. This will only appear if the marking workflow is turned on when initially setting up the assignment.

There are six options that the teacher can choose when they are grading the work:

The final options within the Grade section provide feedback. There were two options that were selected when we created this assignment: Feedback comments and Feedback files. Within the Feedback comments section, we can write feedback for students based on their work. This section has a text editor so that text can be formatted. Within the Feedback files section, we can upload files through the + icon or drag-and-drop them in order to give more information to students. This could be an annotated copy of the student's original uploaded work, a completed feedback form, or even a sound file that provides audio feedback.

The final section of the assignment grading screen outlines the current status and some further options for the assignment. The details within this section will vary depending on how the initial assignment was set up. In this example, we opted for attempts to be reopened automatically, so we are only provided with the details of this rather than the option that can change it.

Once each of these sections has been completed, we need to save our work. There are five options at the bottom of the individual grading screen:

Once the grading has been completed, you will see that the assignment grading table has been updated. Take a look at Bayley W in the following screenshot:

All the information regarding the work of Bayley W is explained as follows:

When creating the assignment, we enabled offline grading, so let's take a look at how we access this and some of the other grading options available from the grading table page.

At the top of the assignment grading table page, there is a drop-down list that provides you with a range of grading options. There are up to five options available in this list but the options will depend on which options were turned on when the assignment was created.

These options are explained as follows:

The Options section enables us to customize how the grading table is viewed as well as provide some quick grading options. Individual teachers can customize how they view the assignment grading area. Three main options are shown at the bottom of the assignment grading screen.

These options are explained as follows:

Turning on the Quick grading option turns the assignment grading area into an editable table that will enable us to add a grade and some written feedback directly onto the screen without needing to enter individual student pages. Quick grading is very useful for offline activities or assignments that have already been viewed offline. When a tick is added to the Quick grading box, three columns are changed.

Once all the grades and written feedback have been added, it is important that you click on Save all quick grading changes at the bottom of the grading table in order to save the completed feedback. We have now seen most of the main features and functions of the assignment grading table. However, we created a range of different type of assignments, so let's take a look at how we can grade other grade types.

When creating assignments in Chapter 3, Adding Graded Activities, we created Task 2 in order to enable students to submit text online, and the maximum grade possible was set to 20. View Task 2 to follow the instructions for the grading process.

As with the previous assignment, we are initially provided with Grading summary, and we need to click on View/grade all assignments. This will open up the assignment grading table.

The grading table is similar to the one we have already used, but on this table, we have an Online text column instead of a File submissions column. Take a look at your grading table and choose a student who has the Submitted for grading text in the Status column. Click on the grading icon within the Grade column next to the student's name.

As shown previously, the page begins with some information about the Submission status section. Much of this information is the same as what was used previously, but take note of the Online text information shown on this page. This will allow you to read the assignment submitted by the student. In most cases, there will be more text than can be seen on this screen, so a + symbol is shown for us to expand the information in order to read the full submission.

In the Submission status section, we have the Grade section, which begins with the option to assign a grade. For the previous assignment, we graded assignments with a scale that provided a drop-down list for us to choose the grade. As this assignment is a number grade, we are provided with a text entry box instead and are informed to assign a grade in the Grade out of 20 option. We are not likely to complete this until we have reviewed the work but when we are ready, we simply need to type in a number between 0 and 20 in order to assign a grade to the assignment.

Toward the bottom of this section, we can see that the Feedback comments box already has some text in it. This text is the assignment submitted by the student. This information appears in the box, as we selected Comment inline when we initially created the assignment. We can edit this text and add further information in order to provide feedback to the students. We will need to make our feedback stand out from the student's original text, so we will need to make use of the text editor that is available at the top of the Feedback comments box.

Click on Save changes to submit the feedback and grade to the Gradebook and inform the student.

So far, we have graded assignments with a scale and number and have viewed assignments submitted as a file and online text. When creating assignments, we also set up a third task, which is Task 3, that makes use of all of these and utilizes the Outcomes feature. Let's take a look now at how to grade outcomes.

After viewing the assignment and clicking on View/grade all assignments, we will see the assignment grading table. As this assignment has enabled File submissions and Online text submissions, both of these columns appear in the table. As we have added outcomes to this assignment, there is an additional column at the end of the grading table, which shows you the outcomes that are used.

Note that currently, the text No outcome appears with each outcome. This shows you that the assignments haven't been graded yet.

We will use the individual grading screen to grade the outcomes, so we need to click on the grade icon in the Grade column next to the student whose work we want to mark.

Once we're on the individual grading screen, the Submission status area enables us to access the file and online text submitted by the student. The Grade section is very similar to the one used previously. A final grade will be awarded and we can enter a numerical value in the Grade out of 100 option in the Grade box.

However, there are additional items to grade now: Evidence provided and Criteria 1 met. Next to the name of each outcome is a drop-down list that provides us with the scale chosen when setting up the outcomes. To grade each outcome, we need to click on the drop-down list in order to choose the grade we want to provide.

The other option we turned on for this assignment, which we haven't seen in practice yet, is the option to manually reopen an assignment in order to enable resubmission. This option is within the Attempt settings section.

If we want to enable the student to resubmit their work again, we need to change the Allow another attempt option to Yes using the drop-down list.

When grading all assignments, we need to ensure that we click on Save changes when we have added the grades and feedback.

We have now looked at all the key options when grading assignments with the simple direct grading method, and we have also created assignments using the advanced grading methods that utilize the marking guide and rubric grading tools. Let's take a look at how to grade these assignments.