Grading Discussions

When you create a topic, you can specify that the topic is gradable. With a gradable discussion topic, you can:

• grade the student's participation in a discussion directly from the Discussions tool.
• view an activity overview that provides statistics on the average number of messages read, the average number of messages posted, and the average number of replies.
• view an individual student's posts and save or print the posts.

Grade a discussion topic

1. From the Discussions screen, locate the topic you want to grade and, from its ActionLinks menu, click Grade Topic. The Grade Discussions screen appears and each student who has posted a message to the topic is displayed along with a Discussion Activity Overview and a Student Overview.

1. To view a student's posts, click the student's name and, from the PeopleLinks menu, click View Student Posts.
2. The Student Discussion Posts screen appears, displaying the student's postings for the topic, along with summary information on the number of new messages, the number of replies posted, and the number of messages read.
3. After viewing the messages and summary information, for each student, enter a grade in the Grade text box and click Save Grades. The results are entered in the Grade Book tool.

After viewing the messages and summary information, for each student, enter a grade in the Grade text box and click Save Grades. The results are entered in the Grade Book tool.

 

View the Discussions interactive tutorial for more information.