Grader Report - Hiding and releasing Grades / Feedback to Students

This guidance relates to grading Moodle Assignments, Moodle Assignments with the Turnitin plugin enabled. There are different workflows to hide and release grades to students via Turnitin assignments and Quizzes.

To ensure that students receive their grades at the same time, the following guidance will explain how you can hide grades from student view while inputting grades and feedback, and how you can then release grades / feedback to students simultaneously.

When you are marking student assignments and have hidden the assignment via Setup in Grades ,it is important that you do not make any changes to the setting Notify students in the Assignment settings. If you change this to No at any stage in the marking process an automatic notification from Moodle will not be sent to students informing them of the release of their grades and feedback.

Marking Workflow

If you are using Marking Workflow you will still need to hide the assignment following the guidance below.

Please note that when you set the grades and feedback to Released within Marking Workflow an email notification will not be automatically sent to students. You will need to let students know that their grades and feedback are available by using either Quickmail or posting to the News Forum. Please read the guidance on Marking Workflow to find out more.

 


Accessing the Grades area

The Grades area is where you can hide and release both grades and feedback.

Step 1 - Click on the icon in the top right of the page and select Gradebook Setup

Step 2 - Click on the Setup tab, you will then see the tab displayed.


Hide a grade item

This is where you can hide the grades for an individual assignment.

Step 1 - Click on the Edit link adjacent to / on the same row as the name of that grade item

Step 2 - Click on Hide

Once a grade item is hidden it will be greyed out.

 


Hide the course total

You may wish to hide the course total if students could work out their hidden grades from the total.

Step 1 - Click on the Edit link adjacent to / on the same row as the Course total at the bottom of the list of grades.

Step 2 - Click on Hide

Once a grade item is hidden it will be greyed out.

 


Hide a grade category

A module can have more than one grade category (e.g. Formative and Summative). You can hide a group of assignment grades/feedback within a specific category. Please note: assignments and other activities outside of the category will not be hidden.

Step 1- Select the Edit link adjacent / on the same row as the name of the category.

Step 2 - Click on  Hide.


Hide a grade from a particular student

Step 1 - Click on the icon and select  Gradebook.

Step 2 - Click on the View tab(if this section is not already open)

Step 3 - Click Turn editing on

Step 4 - Click on the icon above the grade item for the student activity need to be hidden

Step 5 - Tick the Enable box on the Hidden until section

Step 6 - Click Save changes to complete the process


Releasing grades and feedback

Releasing grades and feedback generates an email to students to alert them to their released grades and feedback. Ensure that you have finished your marking and feedback before you undertake this task.

Step 1 - Click on Settings and select Gradebook setup to open up the Grades area.

Step 2 - Click on the Setup tab.

Step 3 - Click on the Edit link adjacent to the grade item and click Edit settings

Step 4 - Click Save changes to complete the process

  • If you have followed the steps above and students are still unable to see grades and feedback check to see if a member of staff has hidden the Grader Report from students. 

  • To check the status of the Grader Report click on Course Edit settings. Scroll down to Appearance and Show Gradebook to students must be set to Yes: 

If you change the status of the Gradebook, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.


Releasing grades and feedback (Anonymous Marking)

Step 1 - Click on icon and select Gradebook setup to open up the Grades area.

Step 2 - Click on the Setup tab.

Step 3 - Click on the Edit link adjacent to the grade item and select  Show.

Step 4 - Open the assignment from the Gradebook by clicking on the link to it.

Step 5 - Click View all submissions.

Step 6 - From the Grading action menu select Reveal student identities. This will populate the Grades into the Grader Report and generate an email to students that Grades and Feedback have been released.

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