Expert-graded assessments are a great tool to introduce hands-on practice tasks into your courses. Unlike tests, homework requires students to write a text or upload a file to be evaluated by the teacher. Depending on the results of the evaluation, students proceed along either the "pass" or "fail" paths.
Create Expert-graded assessment
In order to add Expert-graded assessment to your course, simply drag the corresponding element onto the course schema panel.
Like the Test element, the Expert-graded assessment has two connections - Pass and Fail:
To customize a Expert-graded assessment element, you can adjust the following settings:
Expert-graded assessment name - the title of the assessment task that will appear on the course schema, in email notifications, and in various reports.
Annotation - a brief summary of the homework that also appears in email notifications.
Content - the description of the task, which will be displayed to students once they reach the Expert-graded assessment element in the course.
Upload - files containing additional material can be attached to the Expert-graded assessment assignments.
You can also add experts who will have access to the results submitted by students for evaluation:
The list can be modified:
On this screen you can also modify the following parameters:
Completing period - how much time the student has to complete the homework. The timer begins to count down once he or she presses the "Start" button. If the homework assignment is not submitted on time, it is automatically marked as "failed".
The format of assessment - the way you would like learner’s work to be graded (either Pass/Fail or a score from 1 to 100).
Once you finish customizing a Expert-graded assessment element, you can connect it to other course elements using Pass and Fail connectors, and also preview how the assignment would look from the point of view of a student.
Preview Expert-graded assessment
In the preview mode you see the Expert-graded assessment element as it appears to students, with one small caveat - you can immediately "pass" or "fail" the assignment in order to proceed with the course:
The Expert-graded assessment workflow
Students, when interacting with the Expert-graded assessment element, can submit their results via a simple form:
Then, the assigned experts or the course authors have to manually check the results in Courses > Course > Expert-graded assessment page:
They can grade the assignment:
Unless the "Do not accept appeal" checkbox is checked, the student will be able to make another pass at completing the assignment by uploading new files to be checked and graded.
Otherwise the grade is considered final, and the student will proceed along either the "pass" or "fail" path, depending on the result:
