Twig Elementary: Grading an assessment and leaving feedback

After students submit an assessment digitally, you can review their answers, grade responses, provide feedback, and share results with students.

In this article, you will learn how to:

You can also jump to the Interactive Tutorial at the bottom of the page.

Viewing student answers:

  1. Log in to Twig Science Elementary.
  2. From the top navigation menu, click Assess and then select Assessments Center.
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  3. Twig Science Assessments open on the Assessments Center tab; click the title of an assessment to open it.
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     Tip

    If you have a long list of assessments, use the filters at the top of the page to more quickly find the assessment you want to grade.
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  4. Access the student's answers in one of the following ways:

    Starting point Instructions
    From the rows of students at the bottom of the page Click VIEW ANSWERS by the applicable student.
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    From the top of the page A. Click GRADE ASSIGNMENT.
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    B. Select a student from the Student drop-down menu.
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  5. The student's assessment opens, defaulted to show both student and teacher (scoring) instructions. 

     Tip

    After grading one student's assessment and becoming familiar with the instructions, toggle the instructions off for a cleaner view with the other students.
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Grading assessments and providing feedback:

After opening a student's assessment, review their answers and grade any responses that require teacher scoring. Multiple choice questions will be scored automatically, but open-ended responses require manual grading. 

The top of the student's assessment page shows you how many questions were auto-graded. In the Multiple Choice Assessment example below, all 26 items were automatically scored (letter A in the screenshot), and the student's score was 18/26 (letter B).
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This next example is from a Benchmark test. Letter A shows that none of the 3 items were auto-graded, so the student's score will display as 0/30 (letter B) until you grade each 10-point question. If the student completed the assessment offline, you can still record a score here; just click the checkbox (letter C) to remind yourself that the student answered on paper.
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  1. Review the student's response to each question that must be manually scored.

     Note

    There may be some questions that are neither auto-scored nor manually scored. These questions will not have a SHOW RUBRIC button or a menu from which to select a score.

  2. Use the available scoring instructions or rubric to evaluate the response. Click SHOW RUBRIC to open each question-specific rubric.
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  3. Open the Select a score level... drop-down menu and then select a score.
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  4. Continue until you have reviewed all responses that require grading.
  5. Scroll back to the top of the page. The header now displays how many questions you've graded (A) and the student's new score (B). If desired, enter feedback for the student in the Feedback box (C). Then click SAVE in the top right corner.
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 Caution

Saving the grade and/or adding feedback does not automatically make the feedback visible to the student. You must share the assessment results with the student after providing the initial feedback.

Sharing scores and feedback with students:

When grading is complete, share the results so students can view their scores and any feedback you provided. 

 Note

Even if the assessment was entirely auto-graded and you did not provide any feedback, you must still complete the following steps so students can see their scores.

  1. At the bottom of the assessment page, click the checkbox(es) by the applicable student)s; then click Share Results. 
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  2. In the window that opens, check the confirmation box and then click YES, SHARE RESULTS.
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  3. Click CLOSE in the confirmation message at the bottom of the page.
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    Now that the results are shared, the student can open the assessment to view their performance and/or feedback.

How students view grades and feedback:

  1. Students log in to Twig Science Elementary.
  2. Students click Visit Assessment Center at the bottom of the student dashboard.
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  3. Once the Assessment Center opens, students go to the COMPLETED tab and click VIEW RESULTS for any assessment that has been graded.
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  4. The scores and/or feedback display.
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Updating previously shared scores or feedback:

You can update scores and/or feedback after assessment results have already been shared.

  1. Open the student's assessment results as described in the Viewing student answers section at the top of this article.  
  2. Update the score on a manually-graded question, and/or edit the feedback box. (You can add feedback if you initially left the box blank, or you can edit, add to, or delete feedback you left before.)
  3. Click Save in the top right corner when you are done making your change(s).
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  4. The student will receive a notification of the update on the Completed tab of their Assessments page.
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 Note

After assessment feedback has been shared with a student once, you do not need to share the assessment again after you update the feedback.

Interactive tutorial

Follow our interactive guide to find out how to leave student feedback for assessments.

Best experienced in Full Screen Mode. Click this icon Screenshot to view in Full Screen Mode.

1. Welcome to our Assessment Student Feedback Tutorial!

Firstly navigate to the Assessment Center.

Now click the Action menu.

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2. Click View Student Answers.

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3. Select a student from the Student dropdown menu.

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4. Click on the student's assessment you wish to grade. Here we'll click on Student D1.

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5. Now click into the Feedback box and type in your message to your student.

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6. When you are happy with the feedback, click Save.

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7. Now click VIEW ASSIGNMENT to see a summary of all assignments and to share results.

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8. Scroll down and click on the Action menu.

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9. Click Share Results.

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10. Click the checkbox to agree to the following statement:
"I understand that sharing results with the student(s) will give them access to their scores. "

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11. Click Yes, share results.

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12. We've logged in as a student.

Students will see a New Feedback tag when feedback is left and shared.

We'll click VIEW RESULTS.

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13. The student can now read their feedback for the assessment.

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14. We've now logged back in as a teacher.

To update or change the feedback click on the Action menu in the Assessment Center.

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15. Click View Student Answers.

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16. Select your student from the Student dropdown menu.

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17. Click into the Feedback box.

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18. Type in new feedback, and click Save.

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19. Click Close.

Your feedback is now automatically shared with your student.
 

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20. We've logged back in as a student.

The assessment now has a Feedback Updated tag.

Click VIEW RESULTS.

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21. The student will now see the updated feedback.

Thank you for completing our tutorial!

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** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **

https://www.iorad.com/player/2452210/Twig-Assessments--Student-Feedback

 

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