This is for Planners and Graders.

Navigation filters allow you to efficiently manage your marking lists by narrowing down candidates and questions based on specific criteria, such as marking status or submission types. 

This article explains the definitions of available filters, and how filter behavior adapts to your chosen marking workflow.

Filters

There are two types of filters:

• Candidate filters: Filter the candidates to be listed
• Question filters: Filter the questions that are listed

• There are three filters available for Candidates: All candidates: List all the candidates Flagged: List the candidates who have been flagged by the user in the Grade module Incomplete marking: List the candidates who do not have a mark

• There are six filters available for Questions: All questions: Lists all the questions Manually marked: Lists all manually marked questions. It does not include automatically marked questions whose mark was reset Automatic marks: Lists all automatically marked questions, i.e., questions whose type is considered to be automatically marked. It does not include unanswered manually marked questions that are automatically marked with a zero (the "mark unanswered questions with a 0" behaviour requires activation) Answered questions: Questions that were answered Validation issues: Questions that have some sort of error Unmarked: Questions that do not have a mark. This is only available for Graders. It requires Mark by Question to be activated.

Submitted vs answered questions

Understanding the difference between these terms is essential because it determines which questions are visible in your navigation list and how your filters calculate marking progress.

• Answered question: The question was answered by the candidate, it was not left blank
• Submitted question: The question was submitted by the candidate, regardless of whether they answered it or not
  • In a normal test all candidates must submit all questions
  • In tests with candidate selected or randomly pulled questions, the questions that were not selected by/assigned to the candidate are not submitted by them

Filter behavior

1.  
   • When applying a filter to the candidates list, only the candidates that match that filter will be listed.
   • When applying a filter to the questions list, only the questions that match that filter will be listed.

2. The way filters behave depends on whether you are marking by candidate or marking by question. Because one resource depends on the other, applying a filter on the "primary" side (left) will directly impact the results shown on the "secondary" side (right).

   

   To learn more about the marking workflows, please see this article.

   Mark by Candidate

   In this workflow, the candidate is the primary focus. You can navigate through all candidates freely, but the question list will update to show only what the selected candidate submitted.

   • Candidate Filters

     The filters generally follow the standard definitions, with one specific behavior:

     Incomplete marking: Lists only candidates who have at least one question remaining without a mark. If a candidate has all their questions marked, that candidate will not be listed

   • Question Filters

     Because the questions are "nested" under the candidate, the filters adapt as follows:

     • All questions: Shows questions submitted by the selected candidate
     • Answered questions: Shows questions that the selected candidate actually answered
     • Unmarked: Shows the specific questions for the selected candidate that does not have a mark

   Mark by Question

   In this workflow, the question is the primary focus. You can navigate through all questions freely, but the candidate list will update to show only those who submitted that specific question.

   • Question Filters

     The question list remains independent and does not change based on which candidate is selected:

     • All questions: Lists all question that was submitted by at least one candidate
     • Answered questions: Lists questions that have been answered by at least one candidate
     • Unmarked: Lists all questions that have at least one candidate without a mark for that question. This is only available for Graders

   • Candidate Filters

     The candidate list is now dependent on the question you are currently viewing:

     • Only candidates who submitted the selected question will be listed, regardless of the filter
     • Incomplete marking: Lists only the candidates who have not yet received a mark for this specific question

Filtering candidates/questions without a mark

A common use case is that a Grader wants to navigate only through the candidates/questions that do not have a mark.

This is only available if mark by question is activated.

Selecting the filter on the left will automatically select the corresponding filter on the right.

If you select incomplete marking for the candidates filter and unmarked for the questions filter, you will navigate only through candidates/questions that have yet to be marked. It works for both the Mark by candidate and Mark by question workflow.

Planner vs Grader

There are a couple of differences between these roles and filters

• The incomplete marking candidates filters have different meaning depending on the role
  • Planner: In private marking considers the marks of all Graders
  • Grader: Only considers the marks to which the Grader has access
• The unmarked questions filter (available if Mark By Question is activated) is only available for Graders