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<\/a><\/p>\nThe two important things here are the Comment box and the Mark. In the Comment box you can provide feedback to your students about their response and you can even upload a file here, such as an answer key or rubric. In the Mark box you will give the amount of points for the question score. It is possible to enter fractions for a score, such as 0.8 out of 1. You must enter a mark but you do not have to enter comments to finalize the score.<\/p>\n
After you are finished grading one student’s question, click\u00a0 the “Save and go to next page” button at the bottom of the page. This will take you to the next student’s answer until you have completed all the grading. In order for a quiz to show a total score in the Moodle Gradebook for your students, all the essay or open response questions must be manually graded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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