Guide to marking with Committees

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This guide applies to you if you are working with co-graders and are a member of multiple Committees. 

This guide focuses on marking by candidate (completing all questions for one candidate before moving to the next). Alternatively, you may choose to mark by question (marking all candidates for a single question before moving to the next).

The marking by question alternative requires activation.

Sign in to Inspera Assessment

Sign in to Inspera Assessment the usual way. When you are invited as a Grader on a test, you will receive an email about this, and the email also contains a link to the test which you are invited to mark. 

  1. After signing in, select and open the test you are going to mark from the list.

  2. If you are a member of several committees, you will start by choosing the committee which you are going to mark.

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  3. The first workspace you encounter the first time you open the test is the workspace Overview. This is where you start.

Overview of the header

The header at the top of the panel shows the test name, your name, what user roles you have in the context of the test, and which committee(s) you belong to. 

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If you are a member of only one committee, no other options appear. However, if you belong to several committees, you can view or change committees here.

By clicking on the Committee (committee name), you will get the committee selector in a new window that gives you more information about the committees. You can click on the committee that you want to start marking in, to get to the candidates. 

You can read more about the header in the article Header for grader.

Start marking

Step 1 - Marking questions

The process of marking is the same as for a single Grader. Follow the steps from 1 to 4 here.

Step 2 - Share marking

The next step in the marking process is to share your marking. 

  1. Click Share in the header. 

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  2. You will then be presented with a window where you must confirm the sharing of the markings (blue button). 

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    The tabs at the top show you where you and your co-graders are in the marking process. In this window you also have the option to:

    • Change grades (1)
    • Look at the submissions (2)
    • Download and print submissions

    • Write explanations at the candidate level. 

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  3. Click Share with co-graders now (the blue button), when you are ready to share your marking.

  • How to unshare

    You can unshare and go back to private marking as long as not all co-graders have shared their results yet. 

    To unshare: 

    1. Click on "Options" 

    2. Then click Unshare - Back to private marking. 

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    Please note that you must select a committee for this option to be available.

Step 3 - Align grades if there are any conflicts

When all Graders have shared their private marking, the information in the header will show if grade alignment is required.

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  1. Click Align to see which candidates this applies to. 

    Note that if all other Graders in the committee have already shared their marking, you will automatically be taken to the Align tab if there are any grade conflicts. 

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  2. The list Conflicts found will appear below. This gives you an overview of which candidates have a grade conflict and which grade you and the co-grader(s) have set. 

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  3. Review your marking of the candidates in the list, and align the grades with your co-grader(s).

    You can click the Options (three dots) next to the candidate to open the candidates in the Overview, Marking, Results and Explanation workspaces. 

Step 4 - Confirm the marking

When all of the grades have been aligned, the marking is ready to be confirmed. This will be the next primary action in the header.

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  1. After you have clicked Confirm, you will be sent to approve your confirmation. 

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  2. Click Confirm now (the blue button) when you are ready to confirm your marking.
  3. By confirming, marks and grades are locked and the grading protocol becomes available. You can still edit comments and explanations. 

  4. After you have clicked Confirm now, you will receive confirmation that the marking is confirmed and the button for confirming will be disabled. 

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  5. If one or more of the Graders have not yet confirmed, you will see a status on this in the header. 

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  • Download the grading protocol

    Once all of the Graders have confirmed, you will be able to download the grading protocol from the header. This will download the grading protocol for the selected committees. 

    If you want to download it for all committees, either select all committees and click the "Download grading protocol" button or go to Options -> Download -> Grading protocol. 

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Step 5 - Choose the next committee and continue marking

  1. Select the next committee in the header.
  2. Repeat the steps.

Step 6 - Write notes, explanations and comments in the submission

You can write private notes, explanations and comments in the submission throughout the marking process.

Private note fields are available on each question, and you can choose to add them to the explanation field. 

For more information, see these Help Center articles:

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