There are a number of ways to grade student work in Kannu. The most commonly used criteria for Submission, Link, and Other assignments, are Instructor Assessed Grading Criteria, and at least one is required.
NOTE: If you do not wish to use grading criteria and would like your students to get credit just for submitting the assignment, use the checkbox below grading criteria: Provide full credit for submitting this coursework.
In addition, the Submission, Link, and Project assignment types may use any combination of Peer Assessment, Gallery Participation Assessment, and Participation Assessment.
NOTE: The total value of all criteria must be equal to 100% in order to publish the assignment. Consult the Grading Criteria Total infographic on the right-hand side of the Grading Criteria screen for reference.
Instructor Assessed Grading Criteria
These are the primary criteria by which the instructor will grade a student's work (e.g. word count, quality of writing, thoroughness of research).
- Click the Add Criteria button in the instructor assessed grading criteria field.
- Enter the criteria name and a short description.
- Set the number of points that the criteria will be graded out of.
- Set the weight this criteria will be worth for this assignment. NOTE: If you would like this criteria to be Extra Credit, check the Extra Credit box.
- Click the Save Criteria button in the bottom right-hand corner of the field.
Peer Assessment (Optional)
Peer Assessment is used to have students qualitatively and/or quantitatively evaluate each other’s work, and optionally have an influence on each other’s grades. Peer assessment will open up for students after the primary due date of the assignment it's attached to. If your course is running in adaptive schedule, peer assessment will open 24 hours after the student submits their work.
Assignment of peer assessment is completely randomized, as well as anonymous. Students don't know who they're grading, or who graded them—we find that keeps things more neutral.
Once someone assesses someone else, you'll be able to see who gave what grades in the Grading Center, by clicking on the "View Peer Grades" link next to a given criterion. You'll be able to see who gave a student their grades (numerical or written feedback). You can also change numerical grades manually if you see fit, using the field on the right of the criterion (as you can with any criterion).
NOTE: Once it's open, a student will only be able to complete peer assessment after the required number of assessments is available. That means that if you required two assessments from each student and there is only one available submission, no one will be able to peer assess it.
- Click the Peer Assessment drop-down menu.
- Define the number of assessments you would like to require each student to complete.
- Set the weight peer assessment completion will be worth for this assignment.
- Click the Next Step button in the Peer Assessment drop-down menu.
- Click the Add Criteria button in the Peer Assessment drop-down menu.
- Enter the criteria name, a short description, and any instructor notes about this criteria.
- Check either the Required Numerical Assessment box (to require students to grade each other on a point system) or the Required Written Feedback box. NOTE: You can require both kinds of assessments.
- If you use Required Numerical Assessment box, set the point value that the assessing student can grade on a scale from 0-[value] from, and the weight of the criteria (this is out of the assignment's total weight). If you want your students to give numerical assessment but not influence each other's grades, set the weight of each criteria to 0%.
- Click the Save Criteria button in the bottom right-hand corner of the field.
Gallery Participation Assessment (Optional)
Gallery Participation Assessment encourages students to look at/critique each other’s work, and completion of it will affect their own grade.
- Click the Gallery Participation Assessment drop-down menu.
- Define the number of comments you would like to require each student to make in gallery feedback.
- Set the weight the assessment will be worth for this assignment.
- Select which gallery you'd like the autograder to check for this assessment (for instance, this criteria could be in Assignment 5 but check for participation in Assignment 3's gallery).
- Click the Save button at the bottom of the field.
Forum Participation Assessment (Optional)
Forum Participation Assessment fosters conversation and reflection by having students post and reply in the forums, with optional minimum word counts.- Click the Forum Participation Assessment drop-down menu.
- Set the weight the assessment will be worth for this assignment.
- Select which forum you'd like the autograder to check for this assessment. NOTE: you may assign the autograder to check the forum generated for any given coursework, but not any other forum type. You may also tell the autograder to accept participation from any and all forums.
- Set the required number of posts. This is the number of thread creations required (as opposed to comments/replies).
- Set the minimum word count for each post. If there is no minimum, set the word count to 0, and note that this will also give credit for posting a video, image etc.
- Set the required number of comments. This is the number of comments/replies required (as opposed to thread creations). This criterion counts replies to posts and replies to replies—everything but the post originating the thread.
- Set the minimum word count for each comment.
- Set the commenting deadline. NOTE: This is a hard deadline. After this passes, the autograder will stop checking for forum participation and students won't be able to get points. If you don't want a deadline, simply leave it blank.
- The Count Comments on Own Post? checkbox lets you allow or prevent students from getting points for commenting on threads they've created.
- Click the Save button at the bottom of the field.