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Marking with grading forms in Blackboard

Quick guide for Lecturers and Tutors

The Grading Forms tool allows you to mark assignments and discussions online using specific grading criteria. Grading forms can be used for peer review as well as for formal assessment.

Note: To use a grading form to grade assignments or discussions you must first create a grading form and then attach it to the assignment or discussion before it is made available to students. See the Creating and editing grading forms in Blackboard guides for instructions on how to create grading forms.

Mark a discussion with a grading form
Change a grading form mark or comment for a discussion
Mark an assignment with a grading form
Change a grading form mark or comment for an assignment

Mark a discussion with a grading form

1. Click on the Teach tab.
2. Click on Discussions in the Course Tools menu.
3. Click on the title of the discussion topic you wish to grade.
4. Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the topic title.
5. Click on Grade Topic .
6. Click on the Complete Grading Form button next to the name of one of the students.
7. Click on the circles next to the amount of marks you wish to allocate for each of the critera.
8. Add comments in the Comments box if you wish.
9. Click Save. A green tick will appear in the Grade column for that student. The total mark will automatically appear in the Grade Book.

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Change a grading form mark or comment for a discussion

1. Click on the Teach tab.
2. Click on Discussions in the Course Tools menu.
3. Click on the title of the discussion topic for which you wish to edit a grading form mark or comment.
4. Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the topic title.
5. Click on Grade Topic .
6. Click on View Grade in the Grade column next to a particular student's name, in the column on the left side of the window.
7. Click on Edit Grading Form Grade and make the necessary changes.
8. Click Save.

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Mark an assignment with a grading form

1. Click on the Teach tab.
2. Click on Assignment Dropbox in the Instructor Tools menu.
3. Click on the Submitted tab to view the assignments that have been submitted by students but not yet reviewed.
4. Click on the title of a submitted assignment to mark it.
5. Click on the Complete Grading Form button under Save Options.
6. Click on the circles next to the amount of marks you wish to allocate for each of the critera.
7. Add comments in the Comments box if you wish.
8. Click Save.
9. Click Save in the main window.

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Change a grading form mark or comment for an assignment

1. Click on the Teach tab
2. Click on Assignment Dropbox in the Instructor Tools menu.
3. Click on the Graded tab.
4. Click on the ActionLinks icon next to the assignment title.
5. Click on Review Submission.
6. Click on Edit at the bottom of the window and make the necessary changes.
7. Click on the circle next to Return graded submission to student with the following grade.