Twig Elementary: Managing and grading lessons

How to grade lessons

You can grade lessons, when a student has "Turned in"  their lesson. 

To grade lessons you can either;

• navigate to the lesson using the Lesson Explorer,
• navigate to the lesson using the Assigned Lesson Center.

Navigate to the lesson using the Lesson Explorer

1. Click Grade.
2. Scroll to Module.
3. Click the Green arrow to view Driving Questions (DQs)
4. Click your chosen DQ.
5. Click  Lesson.
6. Click Twig Book.
7. Click Digital.

Navigate to the lesson using the Assigned Lesson Center

1. Click Manage.
2. Click Assigned Lessons Center.
3. Click Choose.
4. Select Student View.

Flexible grading

You can choose to grade lessons by using the student drop down and selecting a student's assignment, or you can grade by using the question type drop down and grading each question one at a time. 

Read How do I view my students' answers for online Twig Book lessons?

Return to Student

When you are grading lessons, you can leave feedback and Return to Student if they need to update or change their answer. 

Click on the speech bubble to leave a comment. 

Then click Return to Student.  The student will be able to update their answers and Turn in the lesson.

Mark as Complete

When you are happy with your student's answers, you can leave feedback and mark the lesson as complete. Click Mark as Complete. The student will be able to view your feedback, but will no longer be able to update the lesson. 

24 STEPS

1. Welcome to our Lesson Feedback and Grading Tutorial!

From your Teacher dashboard click Manage.

2. Click Assigned Lessons.

3. This is your Assigned Lessons Center.

Find the lesson you want to grade, then click on the Progress icons.

4. To grade any lessons which have been turned in, click View.

5. You will now see the student's lesson.

Scroll down to the answer you want to leave feedback for.

Click on the speech bubble icon.

6. Type in your feedback.

7. When you have entered your feedback, click Save.

8. Scroll up to the Progress Action button.

9. If you want your student to make changes to their assignment click Return to Student.

The student will now be able to read your feedback and make changes to their assignment before turning it back in.

10. We've signed in as a student.

When you student signs in they will see their assignment is In Progress and has New Feedback.

Click on the Lesson tile.

11. The student can now click the Speech bubble icon to view feedback.

12. Students can read your feedback, and then make changes to their answer.

13. Students can now update their answer before resubmitting.

14. To resubmit the assignment, your student should click Turn In.

15. We've logged back into our teacher account.

Navigate to the Assigned Lessons Center, and click View next to your student's assignment.

16. Scroll down to view the new answer.

Click on the Speech bubble icon to update feedback.

17. You can now remove your last comment and update it to something new.

18. Type in your new feedback and click Save.

19. Scroll up and click Progress Actions.

20. Click Mark as Complete. The student will be able to see your feedback, but will no longer be able to change their work.

21. Once marked as complete, the assignment can no longer be updated or changed. Click Continue.

22. We'll log back in as a student, and click on the completed lesson.

23. The student can scroll down, and click on the Speech bubble icon to view new feedback.

24. The student won't be able to make any changes, as this lesson is now complete.

Thank you for completing our Lesson Feedback and Grading Tutorial!