This is available for Graders.

The explanation of grades feature makes it possible to record explanations of final grade to candidates. This article wil explain how to record the explanation, important notes on the feature and candidates experoience.

Important notes on the feature

The explanations are not private to you. When a Grader creates or updates an explanation, the Grader's name and the time of last change will be added, and visible to all Graders. When an audio recording is added it will not automatically be visible for co-graders if they are already viewing the explanation, but a page refresh will make it visible. 

You can add multiple recordings to the same explanation. You can also make several recordings, listen to them, and delete the ones you do not want to include. (Note that recordings may be sorted by title, not by the date they were added.)

You can provide an explanation using both written text and an audio recording at the same time. Audio recordings and attachments are not time stamped, only updates to the written explanation will have a time stamp. 

Before you send explanations to candidates:

• Remember that you are sending the explanation on behalf of all Graders.
• The explanation will not be shared with the candidate until you click Send.
• Explanations can only be sent once.
• Once shared, explanations cannot be withdrawn, edited, or deleted.

Read more about how to write and send explanations here.

How to record explanations

1. Go to the Explanations workspace in Marking 2.0.

2. Click the Record button to record your explanation. 

   

3. At the top of the screen you will see the recording progress and some options. 

   

   You can do the following after you start recording:

   1. Save
   2. Pause
   3. Redo
   4. Cancel

4. When you have saved a recording, the option to edit the title of the recording will be displayed. Write a new title in the text box, or click save to use  the default title. 

   

5. The recording will be uploaded to Inspera and displayed as shown below. It will include the recording's title, the name of the user who added it, a player to listen to the recording, and its length. The date it was added is not visible.

   

Candidate experience

The candidate will be able to listen to the explanation recordings by doing the following:

1. Sign in to Inspera.
2. Go to the Archive tab.
3. Click See more details on the test.

4. The explanation will be visible at the bottom. Click on the mp3 attachment in order to listen to the recording.