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Handin: Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback

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Once students have uploaded their assignment submissions, it is time to grade and provide feedback! In this article, you'll find the steps on the different ways you can provide feedback with Handin.

Navigate to Submissions

  1. In your Aula space, head to Journey > Assignments.
  2. Select the assignment you'd like to grade.
  3. Click Open in Handin.
  4. You will land on the assignment overview. From there, click Submissions in the top right of your screen to view and start grading individual submissions.
GIF showing how to navigate to Handin submissions

Set a Grade and Provide Feedback

  1. Once you've reviewed an assignment, you can give it a grade in the Student's Grade section. The type of grade will depend on the choice that you made when creating your assignment (e.g. percentage, pass/fail, rubrics etc.).
  2. To provide feedback on top of the grade, click Add feedback, enter your text, and add any relevant attachments using the editor.
  3. Once complete, click on Add feedback > Save.
GIF showing how to provide a grade and writte feedback

Handin allows for great flexibility in the way feedback is provided. It is possible to add feedback in the following formats:

  • Text
  • Files (uploaded from your local disk or cloud services)
  • Voice notes
  • Code
  • LaTeX
  • Videos

Here's how to create a voice note directly within the editor:

  1. Click on Add Feedback.
  2. Click on the + symbol.
  3. Click on Voice Recording.
  4. Click on the red round record button.
  5. Record your feedback.
  6. Type a title on the "Recording Name" line.
  7. Click on Done.
  8. After it's loaded, click on the green Add Feedback button at the bottom.
GIF showing hot to add a voice note as feedback in Handin

 

Note

You cannot leave a feedback under 'Add feedback' if you are not inputting a grade. In that case, you would need to add the feedback to the conversations box and the grade's field can be left blank.

Release Grades and Feedback

Once you've set grades and added feedback for all students, you may want to release your grades.

  1. Make sure that the assignment is closed for any new submissions. It should have a Closed label on it. (If a student makes any changes to a submission after grades are released, changes to grades and feedback will disappear.)
  2. Open the relevant assignment in Handin and click on the Release grades button in the top right corner.
  3. Confirm with Release to release the grades to the whole class.
GIF showing how to release the grades to the whole class

 

Note

  • Handin does not currently support scheduling a grade release date like Turnitin. Once grades are released, they cannot be withdrawn. However, if you hide the Handin Assignment link, the students won't be able to view the grades even if have been released. 
  • Students aren't automatically notified when grades are released. As a best practice, we recommend posting in the Community feed when grades are released.
  • Grades and feedback are always released together.
  • Messages in the Conversation section are specific to each submission. If a student re-submits, then the new submission replaces the old one, and the previous conversation becomes inaccessible. 
  • Aula Support is unable to manually change grades.

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