Brightspace supports grading in multiple ways, but for the most streamlined and efficient grading experience for faculty, we recommend Quick Eval. Quick Eval offers evaluators a single location to view all learner submissions, including assignments, quizzes, and discussions, and offers robust filtering and sorting capabilities to easily access and grade all submissions.
Access Quick Eval
Access Quick Eval from the navbar on the Organizational or course-level homepage.
Figure: Quick Eval on the Organizational Homepage navbar.
If it doesn't appear on your navbar, you can access it from the Course Tools drop-down menu using the Course Admin option.
Figure: The Course Admin option on the Course Tools drop-down menu.
Note: You might also be able to access Quick Eval at the organizational level using the Quick Eval widget if it has been previously configured by your administrators.
Figure: The Quick Eval widget.
Use the Submissions view
Submissions provides a list of all learner submissions that are awaiting evaluation across all the instructor's courses. The assessments remain visible until the evaluator publishes a grade and feedback.
To use the submissions view
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Click Submissions on the View By toggle.
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To filter the Submissions view, click to expand the Filters drop-down menu.
Note: If you are looking for a specific submission, use the search bar.
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Select one of the filter options:
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Browse to the learner you want to evaluate and click the learner's name to open their submission.
For more information, see Evaluating Learner Submissions.
Use the Activities View
Activities provides a pre-sorted list of all required assessments for an assignment, discussion, or quiz, making it easy to complete one task before moving on to the next. Activities displays indicators to show learner progress on submissions, and instructor progress on evaluations and publishing feedback to learners. It also links to the Evaluation page, Submission page, and provides a Publish All action to enable you to release all evaluations simultaneously.
To use the activities view
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Click Activities on the View By toggle.
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To filter the Activities view, click to expand the Filters drop-down menu.
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Do one of the following:
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Filter by Activity Name or Course, and click the number indicating the new discussion topic, submission, or quiz attempt.
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Begin evaluating by clicking the activity and the number indicating the new discussion topic, submission, or quiz attempt.
Figure: The Activities view, displaying submissions left to be evaluated.
Evaluate learner submissions
You can use the Quick Eval to quickly and easily evaluate learner submissions.
To evaluate learner submissions
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From the Quick Eval Submissions or Activities view, select the assignment submission.
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Review the assignment and then enter a value in the Overall Grade field.
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If you have a rubric attached to the assignment activity, select the rubric and complete the rubric scoring criteria.
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If you want to include text, audio, or video feedback, include it using Brightspace Editor in the Overall Feedback field.
Figure: The Rubrics, Overall Grade, and Overall Feedback fields used to assess learner assignment submissions.
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Use the Annotation tools if you want to annotate feedback on the submission (optional).
Figure: The Annotation tools can provide notes, highlighting, video, and audio annotations on submissions.
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After you have completed the feedback, do one of the following:
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Click Publish to make the feedback available to the learner.
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Click Save Draft to save completed feedback, but do not release it to the learner. For more information about saving drafts, see Optional Steps if you Save Feedback Drafts.
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Do one of the following:
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To move to the next learner submission, click the right-facing Advance Arrow in the top right of the window.
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To return to Quick Eval, click Back to Quick Eval in the top left of the window.
Optional steps if you save feedback drafts
If selecting Save Draft, you can publish feedback later by returning to the learner's submission or through the Activities tab.
To publish draft feedback
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From the Activities view, locate the course and browse to the learner submission. Hover over the activity name and click More Actions.
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Select Publish All to publish all evaluated submissions for this activity.
Figure: The Publish All option on the More Actions menu.
Evaluate a quiz
Most quiz question types are automatically graded by Brightspace. However, if there are written response questions on your quiz, you need to manually grade them.
To evaluate a quiz with Quick Eval
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From Quick Eval, access the quiz you want to grade.
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On the quiz evaluation page, select the attempt and scroll through learner responses.
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On the written response submission, review the learner submission and enter a score.
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Include feedback using Brightspace Editor (optional).
Figure: The Score and Feedback fields to evaluate written response quiz questions.
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Click Update.
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Do one of the following:
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To move to the next learner submissions, click the right-facing Advance Arrow in the top right of the window.
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To return to Quick Eval, click Back to Quick Eval in the top left of the window.
Evaluate a discussion
You can use Quick Eval to evaluate discussion topics.
To evaluate a discussion with Quick Eval
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From Quick Eval, select the discussion topic you want to grade.
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Review the learner discussion topic and any replies, if applicable.
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If you are evaluating a graded discussion, add a discussion score using the following fields:
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Enter a value in the Overall Grade field.
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If you have a rubric attached to the assignment activity, select the rubric and complete the rubric scoring criteria.
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If you want to include text, audio, or video feedback, include it using the Brightspace Editor in the Overall Feedback field.
Figure: The Rubrics, Overall Grade, and Overall Feedback fields to evaluate a Discussion topic.
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After you have completed the feedback, do one of the following:
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Click Publish to make the feedback available to the learner.
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Click Save Draft to save completed feedback, but do not release it to the learner. For more information about saving drafts, see Optional Steps if you Save feedback drafts.
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Do one of the following:
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To move to the next learner submissions, click the right-facing Advance Arrow in the top right of the window.
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To return to Quick Eval, click Back to Quick Eval in the top left of the window.
Publish all feedback
If you have used Save Draft, you can publish all feedback simultaneously for an assessment.
To publish all feedback
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From Quick Eval in the Activities view, locate the activity with the feedback you want to publish.
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Hover over the activity name and click More Actions.
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Select Publish All to publish all evaluated submissions for this activity.
Figure: The Publish All option on the More Actions menu.
Dismiss Activities
Dismissing an activity hides it from Quick Eval, but won't affect the activity. The activity remains dismissed until the selected condition is met, or you manually restore it using the ellipsis icon in Quick Eval. A dismissed activity is still available for evaluation from its own tool (Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions).
To dismiss activities
- Navigate to Quick Eval.
- From the View by options, click Activities.
- Hover over the activity you want to dismiss and click More Actions > Dismiss until.
- Select one of the following:
- A specific date and set how long you want to dismiss the activity for
- Forever
- Dismiss Until Next Submission
- Select Dismiss Activity.
Restore Activities
- Navigate to Quick Eval.
- Click Quick Eval More Actions and select Dismissed activities.
- Select the check box of the item you want to restore and click Restore.
