Flexible Grading is a brand new workflow for grading Assignments and Tests in the Blackboard Ultra Course View that provides you with more flexibility and efficiency. Blackboard gathered extensive feedback from faculty to make the new workflow intuitive to use and to eliminate barriers that make grading cumbersome.
Flexible Grading Features
- Easily move between student attempts using the list of students at the left of the screen.
- Keep track of your grading progress and focus your efforts using the Needs Grading status filter.
- Maximize screen real estate for reviewing student submissions by collapsing both left and right side panels. The header was also reduced from the previous grading experience, to put the focus on the student submission.
- When multiple attempts are enabled, select the attempt you want to grade with a convenient attempt drop down menu in the header. Clearer labeling reduces confusion between the grade for a particular attempt vs. the final grade used for calculations.
- For Tests, fluidly switch between grading by student (i.e., see a single student’s responses to all of the questions) or grading by questions (i.e., see all of the students’ responses to a single question) using the tabs at the top of the left side panel to grade more consistently and accurately.
- For Assignments, provide extensive feedback inline using Annotate, via an interactive rubric, or by providing overall feedback using text or audio/video recording (with automatic captions, after the September update).
Click a thumbnail below to see Flexible Grading in action!
Future Plans
This is only the beginning for flexible grading. Future updates will add support for feedback for individual test questions, group submissions, anonymous grading, parallel grading, peer review and more. Stay tuned for more information!
