Grade and report
Grades are worked out from four things: turning up, answering questions correctly, handing in practice work, and taking part. You choose the recipe once, and the gradebook keeps score.
Before you start
What you need
- A class with a grading policy chosen when you set it up.
- At least one session taught, or one piece of homework handed in.
What you will have
- A grade for every student, broken down by category.
- Feedback released to students.
- A record you can correct when something goes wrong.
The two policies
You picked one of these when you created the class. There are exactly two, and you cannot set your own percentages.
| Counts towards the grade | No participation grade | Include participation |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 30% | 25% |
| Objective questions | 50% | 45% |
| Practice submissions | 20% | 20% |
| Participation | not counted | 10% |
Which one should I pick?
Choose include participation if speaking up, answering polls and asking questions is genuinely part of what you are teaching — a discussion class, a language class, a small tutorial. Choose no participation grade if you would rather not penalise a quiet student who is doing excellent work, which for most subject teaching is the safer default.
How each category earns credit
| Category | How a student earns it |
|---|---|
| Attendance | By opening the session page while the class is running. You can correct this afterwards if someone had connection trouble. |
| Objective questions | By getting quiz and multiple-choice questions right — the ones with a single correct answer, whether asked in class or as homework. |
| Practice submissions | By handing in practice work. This is the part you read and mark yourself. |
| Participation | By joining in — answering polls, asking questions, responding during class. Only counts if you chose the policy that includes it. |
Review practice responses
After a class, open the session and go to the Review tab. Every practice card you ran during the lesson is listed with the answers students gave.
Lumi has already looked at each answer and suggested whether it is right and what it is worth. Your job is to agree or disagree. For each student you can:
- Accept Lumi’s suggestion.
- Change the score.
- Add your own written feedback.
- Release it, so the student sees the score and the comment.
If the Review tab is empty, no practice cards were pushed during that session. Add a practice card on the Prep tab next time.
Open the gradebook
Go to your class, open the Members tab, and follow the link to the gradebook. It has four parts.
- Current course credit — where the class stands overall.
- Published grading policy — the weights your students can see, so you are never guessing which one you picked.
- Learner summaries — one row per student with four columns: attendance, objective, practice and participation. A student who has not done anything in a category reads as “not started” rather than zero.
- Evidence — click a student to see exactly what makes up their marks, session by session.
Correct the record
Things go wrong. Three of them are fixable from here.
A student was present but is marked absent
Attendance is counted by whether a student opened the session page, so a student whose internet failed can be marked absent unfairly. Edit their credit for that session directly in the gradebook.
A score is wrong
Override it — on the assignment for homework, or on the Review tab for in-class practice. The override is what counts towards the grade from then on.
A question was unfair
Use the bulk action on the assignment to award the same score to everyone. It is the honest fix when the fault was in the question rather than in the answers.
What students see
Students have a grades view inside your class. They see the published policy, their own progress in each of the four categories, and any feedback you have released. They do not see anyone else’s marks.
They only see feedback once you release it, so you can mark the whole class before anybody gets a result.
Changing the policy later
You can switch between the two policies from the class settings — but only before the class has built up graded work. Once marks exist, the policy is locked, because changing the recipe halfway through would silently rewrite grades students have already been given.
If a class you are running shows the participation option greyed out, that is why. Decide the policy before your first graded session.