Grading Workflows is an entirely new way of controlling marking administration within the within Inspera. As a result, not all functionality is currently compatible with Grading Workflow. It's important to weigh up the pros and cons to decide if you're ready to start using Grading Workflows or not.

Gaps compared to Legacy Grading Workflows

Email Notifications

There are no email triggers or notifications related to Grading Workflows. If you need to send emails to Graders when phases open or need to be closed, this will need to happen outside Inspera.

Downloading and Uploading of Marks, Grades, and Explanations

Although these currently display in the Options menu in Grade, they will not contain any active data. As Grading Workflows uses a different and more complex data source, the infrastructure for this functionality is very different. 

The CSV download via the Progress Dashboard is a far richer source of marks and grades but is only available to Planners.

Grading Workflows Limitations

Visibility of other Grading: 

Comments/Annotations

As with Legacy Grading Workflows, there are currently no controls over comments/annotations left by graders. All graders will see all comments left as annotations and page notes by other graders. We are actively investigating an alternative solution to allow for controls in the future.

Grader Email Addresses

Although View other grader's email addresses is currently a clickable option in the workflow builder, it has for effect. It will be greyed out in a future release until such time as the functionality is available.

Visibility of other Grading: Grades

Although View Grade is currently a clickable option in the workflow builder, it has for effect. It will be greyed out in a future release until such time as the functionality is available.

Changing Grader allocation mid-phase

If you require the flexibility of changing submission to grader allocations mid-phase, it is recommended you use the Explicit Distribution setting, rather than Random. Currently, Random distribution cannot be reassigned or edited.