Your course's question banks may contain some manually graded questions, or you may want to create some of your own (Essay questions) to be used on auto-graded assignments....but how are those questions graded? See below for details.

If you need instruction to create Custom Questions, (See How do I create a custom question?)

How to Grade Manually Graded Questions on an Auto-Graded Assignment

When a student submits an auto-graded assignment that includes manually-graded questions, they will see the 
entire assignment shown as Not yet Graded (though the auto-graded questions have been graded).  

Below are two student views. In the second view, you can see Questions 1-4 have been graded; Question 5 (gray) has not.



 You will need to grade the manually graded questions before the student receives a grade for the attempt.



Grade a Manually Graded Question

  1. Access the View Attempts screen using either of the following methods:
    • Via the Gradebook
      1. Go to Course
      2. Click Gradebook (left menu panel).
      3. Click the column header for the Assignment. 
    • Via the Course page
      1. Go to Course
      2. Click Course Content (left menu panel).
      3. Click the needed Chapter/Module or content folder (left menu panel).
      4. Click the assignment's Edit button and select View Attempts.
  2. Click Requires grading for the question to be graded.
    Hint:  If there are multiple manually-graded questions on an assignment, you can instead click View attempt below the student's name to open the entire assignment and follow the instruction below for each question that needs to be graded.

  3. Click Make comment or override mark.Note:  The student's response may be in written form (shown above in white shaded area) or as an uploaded file, depending on the question's allowed Response Options.
    If a file has been uploaded by the student, click the file link (will appear in white shaded area) to download or open in a new tab for viewing.

  4. Enter grade in Marks field at bottom of window.  Optional: Include comments to the student in the provided field.
    Save.
    Note: You may see a red Changes saved message; message window will auto-close.

  5. Click Close this Window.
  6. Continue as needed.
    If you notice the grade hasn't updated, don't worry...it has saved as long as you clicked Save in Step 4.
    The grade will update by refreshing the screen or when the gradebook is reopened.

    The grade will automatically update for both the question and the assignment.