Automated Grading

When a learner completes a bulb, they are presented with their score on the assignment. The Current Score is calculated by assigning 0 points to any questions that are not set to auto-graded.  Once the course instructor grades those questions, scores will be updated.

There are three grading types for the interactions:

• Auto-graded interaction: When the learner completes the interaction, the grade will be automatically assigned based on their responses. The following interaction types are auto-graded:
  • Multiple choice (Default points: 1)
  • Check all (Default points: 1)
  • Fill in the Blank (Default points: 1)
• Manually graded interaction: By default, Free response (Default points: 3) interaction needs to be manually graded after learners submit their responses. Instructors can also turn on the auto-graded feature for the free response interaction, which will automatically provide full credits to learners when they complete the interaction.

  

• Non-graded interaction: Interactions that do not have points set by default. Instructors can assign the points to them if needed, and learners will automatically gain the points once they complete the interaction. The following interaction types are non-graded by default:
  • Poll
  • Discussion
  • Pause
  • Web embed
  • PDF file

Instructors can adjust the default points for interactions by going to their User Profile page and changing the Interaction Default settings. This help article provides more information on the User Profile. Please note that these changes will only affect the interaction created after the change and will not update the existing interactions in the Bulbs.

To adjust the points for the interaction in the Bulb, please click the triple-dot icon on top of the interaction in the Bulb Designer and use the slide bar to adjust the points for it.

Automated vs Manual Scoring

All interaction types have the ability to be auto-graded! Multiple choice, check all, and fill in the blank are all automatically graded. Reflective pause, web embed, polling survey, and discussion forum all have the ability to be automatically graded once you change the point value to greater than 0. To learn more about how to change the point value on interactions, click here.

Free response interactions and discussion interactions have the option to be manually or automatically graded. To learn more about how to set up a manually graded discussion forum, click here. To learn more about how to score manually graded interactions, click here.

Manually Export Grades to LMS

As an instructor, you will need to manually export grades if your bulb included free response questions or if you adjusted students' scores by hand.

1. Log in to your LMS and open the relevant bulb.
2. Click on MONITOR.

   

3. At the top of the Monitor page, click SYNC GRADES.

   

4. Click CHECK SYNC STATUS on the drop-down menu to check the status of the student grade export. It may take a few minutes to push all updated scores into the gradebook.

For more help navigating the Monitor page and adjusting student scores, click here.