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How to Manage Student Assessment Grades

Once students have taken a graded assessment, here's how to view and manage submissions, add time, add attempts and adjust scores.


Our goal is to save you time and help you maximize your impact. Quizzing and Assignments are core part of that. This guide shows you how to manage the submissions of students, and is broken down into the following sections:

  1. Reviewing Student Grades

  2. Manually Adjusting Student Grades

  3. Results from Individual or Multiple Attempts

  4. Viewing Assessment Analytics

  5. Making Accommodations for Students

  6. Syncing Grades with Canvas & Blackboard


1. Reviewing Student Grades

When a student submits their answers for a graded assessment, their results will appear in the Gradebook almost immediately.

If a student hasn't paid yet, their graded work shows Held instead of a score until they redeem a code or pay. See Students who haven't paid yet.

Opening the Gradebook from the left-hand menu and scrolling across the table of students and assessment grades

Note that only graded assessments show up here. If they have completed an ungraded assessment (like a practice quiz), its results don't appear in the Gradebook. You can still see them on that assessment's Moderate page.


2. Manually Adjusting Student Grades

Sometimes you need to adjust a grade for a student. Perhaps a question was not clear, or perhaps they just gave you some money - we don't judge 😉. On the Gradebook page you can manually overwrite a student's grade.

You can't adjust, excuse or override a held grade until the student pays.

Double-clicking a grade in the Gradebook, entering a new score and hovering over it to see the original score, who changed it and when

To adjust a grade for a student:

  1. Go to the Gradebook tab in the Control Center.

  2. Find the relevant grade from the table of students and assessments.

  3. Double click on the grade you want to change.

  4. Enter the number you want it to be and hit enter.

  5. When you hover over the adjusted grade, it will pop up with the original score, who adjusted it and when.


3. Results from Individual or Multiple Attempts

3.1 Accessing Individual Results

There are two routes you can take to see the individual answers students made for each assessment submission, via the Gradebook, or via the Assessments tab.

3.1.1. Via the Gradebook

Clicking a student's name in the Gradebook to open their page of submissions, then clicking View Responses to see their answers

To see individual answers via the Gradebook:

  1. Go to the Gradebook tab in the Control Center.

  2. Find the relevant student from the list.

  3. Click on their name. This will take you through to the student's page, which lists all of the assessment submissions made by the student.

  4. Click on View Responses for the relevant assessment.

3.1.2. Accessing Via the Assessments Tab

To see the individual answers from a student via the Assessments tab, head to the Moderate page of the assessment.

  1. Go to the Assessments tab in the Control Center.

  2. Find the relevant quiz or assignment from the list, click on the 3 dots on the right, select Moderate.

  3. On the Moderate page, click the student name.

  4. This will take you to the student assessment page, with all of their attempt details, including:

    1. time taken

    2. answers

    3. correct / incorrect

    4. grade

3.2 Viewing All Attempts

If you allow students multiple attempts, you can see the results from each attempt.

To select between attempts:

  1. Go to the Assessments tab in the Control Center.

  2. Find the relevant quiz or assignment from the list.

  3. Click on the 3 dots on the far right hand side. A drop down will appear. Select "Moderate".

  4. On the Moderate page, click the student name.

  5. If there are multiple attempts, you will see the boxes to select between the attempts.

3.3 Downloading Submissions

As part of assignments or quizzes, you can ask students to upload files. This is usually an Excel file, or word file to show their workings, or a completed template.

To access uploaded files from students as part of assessments:

  1. Go to the individual student assessment page.

  2. Click on the Download Student Submission button.


4. Viewing Assessment Analytics

Once students have completed an assessment, Blended Teaching will generate analytics to help you evaluate the assessment overall, as the well as the individual questions.

Choosing Analytics from an assessment's three-dot menu, then scrolling to the score distribution and expanding a question's analysis

To view assessment analytics:

  1. Go to the Assessments tab in the Control Center.

  2. Identify the relevant assessment, select the three dots on the right and select Analyze.

  3. You can also open the Analyze tab at the top of any assessment's page.

The overall assessment analytics show the following:

  • Highest score

  • Lowest score

  • Mean score

  • Median score

  • Mean elapsed time

  • Standard Deviation

  • Score distribution graph

Click a question to see its individual analytics, which show the following:

  • Item Difficulty: The percentage of people who answered the question successfully.

  • Mean Earned Points: Average points earned from the question across all students.

  • Median Earned Points: Middle value of points earned from all students.

  • Discrimination Index: Correlation between getting the question right and overall quiz performance. Values range from -1 to 1. Positive values indicate students who score well on the quiz tend to get this question right.

  • Corrected Item-Total Correlation Coefficient: Correlation between this question's score and the total quiz score (excluding this question). Measures how well this question aligns with overall quiz performance.

  • Answer Frequency Summary table

  • For MCQs, the count of how many times each answer option was selected by students.


5. Making Accommodations for Students

There are all sorts of reasons you may want to make changes for individual students, including:

  1. Giving additional attempts

  2. Providing extra time

  3. Extending a deadline

  4. Manually adjusting grades

To learn how to do these, just follow this separate guide:


6. Syncing Grades with Canvas & Blackboard

For detailed instructions on how to sync grades, follow this guide:

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