Providing Feedback and Grading within VU Collaborate
The Evaluate Submission page within an Assessment Dropbox enables you to evaluate and leave feedback for student submissions. You can download submissions from the Folder Submissions page to work on files offline or you can view and grade a document directly on the Evaluate Submission page.
If you grade directly on the Evaluate Submission page, you can choose to publish feedback immediately or save your feedback as a draft and release it at a later time. This enables you to revise and review evaluations, and publish your feedback to multiple students all at once.
Here are steps to Provide feedback and grading within VU Collaborate:
- Access the Assessment Dropbox Folder
- Select the Assignment Folder
- Access the Evaluate Submission page
- Methods of Providing Feedback
- Publishing or Saving Feedback
- Providing Feedback for on Paper or Observed in Person Assessments
Step One: Access the Assessment Dropbox Folder
Select Dropbox from the Assessments menu.
Step Two: Select the Assignment Folder
Select the dropdown arrow of the assessment folder you would like to evaluate. Select view submissions, this will open a folder containing all of the current submissions.
Step Three: Access the Evaluate Submission page
Note: The following steps and images demonstrate evaluating a File or Text submission.
On the Folder Submissions page, click the assessment title below the name of the student you wish to leave feedback for or the Evaluate Submission button.
Note: Use the search options to find specific submissions based on student name, date, or whether feedback has already been given.
Step Four: Methods of Providing Feedback
An assignment can be assessed in the following ways:
4.1 Rubrics
1. Click on the associated rubric in the Evaluation Panel and evaluate according to the rubric.
2. Click Save and Record to transfer rubric score and feedback into the overall score and feedback area of the dropbox. Otherwise,
3. Click Save if you want to keep the rubric score separate from the overall score and prevent the transfer of rubric feedback into general feedback. View the Rubrics help guides for more information.
4.2 Score
If you have not selected for the score to be transferred directly from the rubric, enter a numerical value in the Score out of field. When published, this will be sent to the linked grade item in the grade book.
4.3 Feedback
Provide qualitative feedback in the Feedback field. You are also able to include photos, URL links and other multimedia elements in the HTML editor.
4.4 Add a File
You are also able to provide feedback in a separate file and upload it. Alternatively, you can download the submission and annotate it using the download button 
.
1. The annotated document or new one can be uploaded by clicking Add a File.
2. A popup window will appear, you can select the source of the document then easily drag and drop the document in the uploading space.
3. Click Add.
4.5 Recording audio
You are able to record audio feedback up to a maximum of three minutes.
1. Click Record Audio.
2. A popup window will appear. please ensure you Allow VU Collaborate to access your microphone when prompted and that you have Flash installed on your computer.
3. To start recording click New Recording, and then click Add.
4. If you have previously recorded an audio file, you can upload it by clicking Upload File.
4.6 Recording Video
You are able to record video feedback up to a maximum of three minutes.
1. Click Record Video.
2. A popup window will appear. please ensure you Allow VU Collaborate to access your camera when prompted and that you have Flash installed on your computer.
3. To start recording click New Recording, and then click Add.
4. If you have previously recorded a video, you can upload it by clicking Upload File.
Step Five: Publishing or Saving Feedback
Once you have entered the desired feedback for the submission, you can either:
Publish: The feedback will be immediately available to the student and the grades will be transferred to the grade book.
Save Draft: The feedback will only be visible to staff and not be released to students. Grades will not be transferred to the grade book until the feedback is published.
1. Click Done to exit the submission.
2. Alternatively, click Next Student which is immediately below the Done button (and beside the Publish and Save Draft buttons) in order to display the next student assignment within the Assessment Dropbox folder.
Tip: In order to prevent students from viewing feedback prematurely, Save Draft for each submission. When ready, Bulk Publishing Feedback in VU Collaborate for all students which allows them to view their feedback, as well as for the grade values to be sent to the grade book.
Providing Feeback for on Paper or Observed in Person Assessments
1. VU Collaborate allows assessment dropboxes to be set up for paper submissions or observed in person.
2. For evaluating these types of assessments the steps are similar to those described above.
- Initially, Select dropdown arrow of the assessment folder you would like to evaluate students’ assessments. Select view submissions, this will open a folder containing all of the current submissions.
- On the Folder Submissions page, click the assessment link below the name of the student you wish to leave feedback for or the Evaluate Submission button.
3. The same methods as above can be used for providing feedback (Example: rubrics, score, written feedback, or attached file).
Once you have entered the desired feedback for the submission, you can either:
Publish: The feedback will be immediately available to the student and the grades will be transferred to the grade book.
Save Draft: The feedback will only be visible to staff and not be released to students. Grades will not be transferred to the grade book until the feedback is published.
1. Click Done to exit the submission.
2. Alternatively, click Next Student which is immediately below the Done button in order to display the next student submission within the Assessment Dropbox folder.
Further Support
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