[New Quizzes] Speed up grading by allowing manual grading of ALL student answers to a single question on one page
There are too many steps to manually grade a short-answer or essay question. You must click into a student's quiz answers, move to the specific question (or set it to sort by question, which you must change for each question), grade, update, click to next student, and repeat the whole process. This is a 5-step process that can be streamlined to take up considerably less time. What used to take me 20-30 minutes to grade a class of 45 students through 10 fill-in-the-blank questions now takes closer to 2 hours. The only other alternative is to grade all questions for each student, which requires graders to mentally shift gears to grade each question. Auto-grading fill-in-the-blank questions would require teachers to anticipate every possible misspelling or typo, which is impossible to predict. Any way way you slice it, it's incredibly inefficient.
Proposed solution: Teachers should be able to filter out a single question that needs to be manually graded and see ALL student answers to that question on one page. As we scroll down the page, we just input the grade for each student's answer, grading all 10 or 30 or 45 or 100 answers to that specific question, then hit enter at the bottom of the page. Then you could select out the next question for manual grading. That would take a 5-step process and make it a 2-step process. This was the single best feature in Moodle, and I'm surprised that manual grading is so complicated in Canvas.
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