Grading Student Annotations in Moodle
Vendor Instructions
The Hypothesis LMS app has been integrated with Moodle’s Grades, making it easier to assess student annotations. The integration singles out each student’s contributions to a conversation on a document and enables instructors to enter a grade for an annotated reading assignment.
1. Make sure your assignment can accept grades from Hypothesis
When creating the assignment, make sure “Accept grades from the tool” is checked off under Privacy. NOTE: KPU sets the privacy levels on a global level and are enabled by default. Be careful not to turn them off.
Then, under Grade, make sure your Type is set to “Point”.
Your Maximum grade: KPU-Specific Information “Moodle does not accept maximum grades over 100. Hypothesis grades are given out on a percentage basis, but Moodle will not create the activity itself if the maximum grade is not acceptable. As such, the score in Hypothesis should never be set above 100.”
2. Launch the assignment
When you launch the assignment, you will see the grading toolbar at the top of the screen:
From here you can:
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Toggle between a student’s annotations and the whole class, to see each student’s work in context and by itself
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See how many annotations each student created (including replies)
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Enter a grade, which will be sent to the Moodle Gradebook
3. Select a student to display only their annotations
When you use the arrows to cycle through the class list or select a student’s name from the dropdown, you will see only the annotations of the selected student:
In the picture below, the student “Michael DiRoberts_PreviewUser” is selected, and so only the annotations made by that student are displayed.
You can also click on the drop-down menu to see the list of students and select the one you want.
4. Enter and submit grades
Enter any number (out of 10) and click on “Submit Grade”. Then select a new student to continue grading.
5. Access Moodle Grades
In your course, choose Grades.
Your grades for each assignment will appear in the gradebook. Please note that the assignment has you grade out of 10 points, but Moodle Grades will multiply this number by 10 to display your grade out of 100 points.
