Speedgrader, Question by Question

[NicholasHamm]

I am unaware of this exists or if this is something that is even possible in Canvas. 

But one of my favorite features of grading in the Google Classroom grader was the ability to grade a single question at a time, and grade every single submission's question from there.

I loved the ability to just choose question 1, see all of the answers for that and grade all of those at one time. 

It would be amazing to have this ability in speedgrader. 

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @NicholasHamm,

Please see the How do I grade one quiz question at a time in Spee... - Instructure Community - 1002 guide for information on how to do something similar (though perhaps not identical) in Canvas.  It should be possible to do for both Classic and New Quizzes in Canvas/SpeedGrader.

I hope this helps!

-Chris

[NicholasHamm]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[retannenbaum]

@chriscas This method works, but it's still nowhere near as useful as seeing all the answers to a given question on the same page. This is for two reasons:

1. This method involves a lot of extra clicking! For every student I have to type a score, mouse to the "update score" button, click that button, move my mouse up to the list of students, click to move to the next student, move my mouse back over to the grading portion of the screen, and repeat. If I am grading 100 exams with 5 essay questions, that means repeating this process 500 times. That is just an utterly ridiculous amount of wasted time.
2. If I could see the answers to a given question all on one screen, then it would be far, far easier to remain wholly consistent in my grading, as I'd be able to compare answers that may differ in subtle ways, or reevaluate earlier answers when I later encounter something I hadn't been anticipating.