Assessment and Grading
Flexible Grading – 3900.71
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors
Related topics: Flex Grading Assignments, Flex Grading Tests
Flexible Grading is a new, efficient assessment grading experience. The new experience:
- provides intuitive and streamlined navigation,
- eliminates artificial barriers,
- saves time and effort when navigating from student to student or question to question.
Flexible Grading capabilities:
- Grade by question or student
- Filter on grading status of choice
- Navigate between students and multiple submission attempts
- Keep track of your grading process
- View both the attempt and the final grade for each assessment
- Provide meaningful feedback with or without a rubric
- Grade inline using Blackboard Annotate
- Collapse side panels to view more of the student submission
- Post all grades when ready
Supported assessment grading configurations:
- Individual student test and assignment submissions
- Single and multiple attempts
- Grading with rubrics
- SafeAssign
Other assessment configurations will continue to route through to the current grading experience. There is no loss of grading functionality for these configurations:
- Anonymous submissions
- Group submissions
- 2 graders per student
- Peer review
Flexible Grading will come to these assessment configurations in future releases.
For more information and to download a copy of the Flexible Grading adoption resource, please refer to the Community site blog post: https://community.anthology.com/blogs/8/1242
Image 1: Instructor view of grading a test by question; the Needs Grading filter is applied to filter out any automatically graded questions
Image 2: Instructor view of grading a test by question
Image 3: Instructor view of grading an assignment with a rubric
For administrators: This feature is available in Ultra Experience Management. We will turn on the feature for test/stage sites between 9-10 am EST on July 12, 2023. The feature will go to production on August 4, but we will not turn on the feature until Monday, August 7. The feature is on by default to ensure that the Flexible Grading interface is available to users at launch. You can turn off the Flexible Grading interface by setting this feature to Off.