Would you like to assess a specific journal activity instead? Follow this guide.
If you would like to assess a journal as a whole you can make use of an overall assessment.
Within a student's journal you can click the Assessment tab in the to give an overall assessment.
An overall assessment consists of two parts, a set of criteria (possibly including a rubric), and a rich text feedback section.
An overall assessment is started as a draft and can be accessed from anywhere within a journal. This allows you to navigate through the journal's contents and construct your assessment as you progress.
The overall assessment automatically includes any individual entry grades or bonus points for the journal.
If you would like to add additional criteria to the assessment you can make use of a rubric. To do so select a rubric from the dropdown.
The overall assessment can include, apart from a general feedback, comments on specific categories.
Below there are options to add narrative feedback and a grades to each category. Once the assessment is submitted the category feedback can be inspected in the programme dashboard and the journal/user dashboard
By default, the final grade for a journal is automatically computed from the criteria listed in the assessment. It is possible to manually override this grade by entering a new value in the input field at the bottom of the assessment window.
Once you manually override an overall assessment grade, new entry grades or bonus point updates will not trigger an automatic update of the final grade any more.
It is also possible to attach files to the assessment if you wish to complement the final grade and comments.
If the grading scheme of the assignment is changed during grading, assessments making use of the previously set grading scheme are no longer editable. To continue grading with the new grading scheme, you need to click the button below:
This action will create a new version of your assessment in which the rubric and/or grade deviating from the assignment's grading scheme is removed.
You can always view or restore your previous version via the assessment history.
To finalize an assessment, two actions are available:
Both actions add a checkpoint to the assessment history.
The History button at the top of the assessment menu shows all previous overall assessments given to a journal, including pending drafts. This history is not visible to students.
Each row contains information such as who submitted an assessment or whether it was published. The buttons on the right hand side of each row allow you to perform the following actions:
Working with multiple assessors
Whilst the overall assessment is designed to be shared across all teachers on the same team, different assessors can each submit an individual assessment.
Have each assessor save their assessment without publishing, this will create a snapshot in the assessment history. You can then visit the assessment of each individual assessor to consolidate all input into a final overall assessment.
The the result of the overall assessment can be found at two locations.