Grading a Quiz
Open Video Tutorial: Quizzes - Manually Grade a Quiz - Instructor (YouTube)Some quiz questions can be set up to be graded automatically by D2L, including multiple-choice, true/false, multi-select, and matching. More qualitative questions, like written response, must be graded manually.
There are two options for grading quizzes:
- By Student Attempt: To grade an entire quiz for one student at a time.
- By Question: To grade one question for one student at a time.
Grading by Student Attempt
- Go Assessments then Quizzes.
- Select the dropdown arrow [1] next to the quiz.
- Select Grade [2].

- The Grade Quiz page will open to the Users tab. Under the name of the student, select the attempt link.

- Scroll down to the quiz questions and enter feedback:
- Enter a value in the Score field [1] for questions that must be graded manually or to change the score that D2L has automatically assigned.
- Select the Expand question feedback [2] link and enter text in the Feedback text-box to provide qualitative feedback.

- Enter text in the Attempt Feedback text-box to give the student feedback on the entire quiz attempt.

- Select Save and Close.
Grading by Question
- Go Assessments then Quizzes.
- Select the dropdown arrow [1] next to the quiz.
- Select Grade [2].

- The Grade Quiz page will open to the Users tab. Select the Questions tab to view a list of all questions on the quiz. By default Grade Individual Responses and View Graded Responses will be checked.

- Select the question title link. The first response will be displayed.
- Enter a value in the Score [1] field (or adjust the value automatically entered by D2L)
- Select Expand question feedback [2] to open the Feedback field, and enter any qualitative feedback.
- Select Save and Continue to go to the next student.

Manually publishing Quiz Scores to the Gradebook
If quizzes are not fully auto-graded, scores will need to be manually published to the gradebook.
- Go to the Quizzes area of the course.
- Select the dropdown arrow [1] next to the quiz.
- Select Grade [2].

- Select the Select all rows checkbox [1] to select all the quiz attempts.
- Select Publish Feedback [2].

- In the pop-up window, select Yes to publish the quiz scores to the gradebook.