Scan and upload a completed paper assessment

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Scan and upload the assessment

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After your students have completed an in-class paper assessment, the full assessment booklets need to be scanned and uploaded to Möbius Grading.

TIP: Check out Create an in-class paper assessment for details on generating and printing the paper assessment in Möbius Grading.

Scan and upload the assessment

You'll need to scan the completed assessment booklets that were completed by students, and then upload the PDF scan to Möbius Grading.

To upload a completed assessment to Möbius Grading:

  1. Scan the paper exams to a PDF file.

IMPORTANT: Follow these recommendations when scanning the paper copies:

  • Use a continuous feed scanner that can output a single PDF file for the whole exam.
  • One file can be uploaded with any number of students exams.
  • Scanned pages can be in any order, as the barcodes are used to match to the corresponding front page.
  • Set the Resolution scanner setting to 200 dpi or higher.
  • Ensure the Darkness or Contrast setting of the scan is strong enough to produce clear scans of the students' work.

  1. Click the link in your LMS course corresponding to the Möbius Grading paper exam.

Canvas Assignments page with a link called Mobius Grading Exam.

  1. Select Upload Exams from the navigation menu.

At the top left, the nav menu has been clicked. Then the Upload Exams option (fifth from the top) is highlighted.

  1. Click Browse to choose file to upload the file(s) containing the scanned paper exams.

The file upload area 'Browse to choose file' is highlighted.

  1. Navigate to the location of the PDF file(s) containing the scanned paper exams and select it.

An external scanned PDF document is selected from the user's local drive.

TIP: Depending on your device, you can also click-and-drag multiple files from the device file manager into the upload area.

An external document is selected from the user's local drive, and is dragged and dropped into the Upload Exam Files window under Drag and drop.

  1. Click Upload file and Möbius Grading will begin reading the uploaded file(s).

Upload Exam Files screen shows the filename, and underneath the Upload File button is highlighted.

  1. Once reading of the uploaded file is completed, the number of completed and failed pages will appear.

Under the Upload Exam Files heading, the name of the uploaded file is highlighted, and underneath are numbers for Total Pages, Completed Pages and Failed Pages.

TIP: You can upload as many different scanned files as required to bring all the students' work for this assessment into Möbius Grading. The Not Scanned value on the assessment dashboard will indicate any number of exams generated that haven't yet been uploaded into Möbius Grading:

Under the Overview heading on the assessment dashboard, the Not Scanned value is highlighted.

Check out View the assessment dashboard and navigation menu for more details.

Review scanning issues in an assessment

Any pages of the scanned paper exams that weren't read correctly when uploaded into Möbius Grading will be listed as Failed Pages.

To review and resolve failed pages and/or scanning issues:

  1. Click the document icon above the Failed Pages value in the Upload Exam Files page.

For the number listed above Failed Page, there is a document icon towards the top right of the number bubble.

  1. Click the link for the page in the Page column of the table to view the scanned page with the issue.

Under the Page heading of the table, the link is highlighted. For this link, the Status entry in the table is given as pagenotfound.

  1. Click Enter Barcode to match the scanned page to a student assessment.

The Failed Pages/Scanning Issues page is shown. In the table under the Action heading, the Enter Barcode button is highlighted.

  1. Enter the barcode of the page in the Page ID field.

In the Enter Barcode Manually dialog box, the Page ID text field is filled in with an 8 letter barcode from the students scanned work

TIP: In the Enter Barcode Manually dialog box, select the Barcode at the bottom option if the details are printed at the bottom of the page and visible in the scanned paper exam.

In the Enter Barcode Manually dialog box, the Barcode at the bottom checkbox is highlighted.

  1. Click Process page to complete the resolution of the scanning issue.

At the bottom right of the Enter Barcode Manually dialog box, the Process Page button is highlighted.

Manually assign scanned pages in an assessment

Möbius Grading may fail to assign a scanned exam with a specific student if they don't correctly fill the exam cover page and the Student ID bubblesheet.

To manually assign a scanned exam with a specific student:

  1. Click the document icon next to the Not Assigned value in the Overview section of the assessment dashboard.

On the Assessment Dashboard the Not Assigned box has the number 5 to the left. The document icon to the right of Not Assigned is highlighted.

TIP: Check out View the assessment dashboard and navigation menu for more details on the dashboard and the Overview section.

  1. View the scanned paper exam preview to determine which student to assign to this exam.

The Assign Exams window is shown, and on the left of the page is the scanned exam preview for Jason Smith.

  1. Select the student to assign to this exam from the Students drop-down menu.

The Assign Exams window is shown. On the right of the page, the Students dropdown menu is open and Jason Smith is an entry.

  1. Click Assign and move to next to manually assign this scanned exam to the selected student.

The Assign Exams window is shown. On the right of the page, Jason Smith has been selected in the Students dropdown menu, and underneath the Assign and move to next button is highlighted.

What's next?

Now that you've scanned and uploaded the completed assessment, you're ready to:

 

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