Force grade an activity

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Force grade from the Activity Editors

Force grade from the Content Repository

Force grade from the Gradebook

You must force grade active attempts for an activity if you want to edit or delete that activity.

Force grade — Action that causes any active attempts of an activity to be automatically submitted as complete and the resulting grades are pushed to the Gradebook.

There are three ways to force grade active attempts at an activity:

  • Automatically from the Activity Editors
  • Manually from the Content Repository
  • Manually from the Gradebook

Force grade from the Activity Editors

You can define the Schedule Force Grading On property from within the Activity Editors while building your activity.

The Schedule force grading on property is within the scheduling and visibility pane of the lesson and assignmne editors.

This property will automatically grade all active attempts on a specific date regardless of their completion status.

The Schedule Force Grading On property is located in the Scheduling & Visibility pane of the:

NOTE: The Schedule Force Grading On property defines the Force Grade Date square that is visible on the Class Schedule.

The force grade date is indicated as a blue square on the class schedule.

Check out Work with the Class Schedule.

Force grade from the Content Repository

To manually force grade an activity from the Content Repository:

  1. Click Content Repository on the Class Homepage.

The content repository menu option is the third option of the instructor main navigation menu.

  1. Click Lessons & Assignments.

The lessons and assignments folder is the first folder of your current class source.

  1. Navigate to the activity that you want to force grade.

The selected activity summary is shown when a specific activity is selected from the current class.

  1. Click Force Grade.

The force grade button is the second button in the activity summary.

NOTE: If there are active attempts for the activity, the number of active attempts is displayed in the Active field.

The number 2 is displayed beside Active in the activity summary to show two active attempts.

NOTE: If there aren't any active attempts at the selected activity, there will be a (A) 0 in the Active field of the Units pane , and the (B) Force Grade button won't be visible in the Activity Summary pane.

0 is displayed in the active field of the list of activities and the opened pane of the activity doesn't have the force grade button.

  1. A confirmation message will appear listing the users with active attempts. Click Force Grade in the confirmation window.

The Force Grade button is the second button in the Force Grade modal that appears.

NOTE: If a student with an in-progress attempt is currently active in Möbius when you click Force Grade, their attempts won't be force graded. To force grade even those in-progress attempts, select the (A) Force Grade All (Includes Active) check box and then click (B) Force Grade.

The force grade all check box is below the list of all attempts in the force grade modal.

  1. All attempts are graded. You can now edit or delete the activity.

Force grade from the Gradebook

To manually force grade an activity from the Gradebook:

TIP: You can use this method to force grade all active attempts for all affected users. You can also select which specific users' attempts you want to force grade through the Gradebook. View the TIP at step 7.

  1. Click Gradebook from the Class Homepage.

The Gradebook menu is the fourth option in the main möbius navigation bar.

  1. Click Class Grades.

Class Grades is the first menu option of the gradbeook menu.

  1. Select the activity to be force graded.

An activity is selected in the Activities list on the Gradebook search page.

  1. Select In Progress from the Progress drop-down list.

The in progress option is the third option in the progress menu.

  1. Click Search.

The search button is at the bottom of the gradebook search page.

TIP: Check out Search for class grades for more details on how to optimize your search results within the Gradebook.

  1. Click the activity name in the results table.

The activity name is displayed in the first row of the gradebook results table.

  1. Click Force grade active assignments from the activity's Gradebook data (check out View activity Gradebook data for more details on how to interpret and work with this summary information).

The force grade link is displayed with the other activity data like current total points.

NOTE: If there are active attempts for the activity, the number of active attempts is displayed in the # Active Assignments field of the activity data.

A number will be displayed in the # active assignments field below original total points of the activity summary pane.

NOTE: If there aren't any active attempts, the (A) # Active Assignments field will display 0 and the (B) Force grade active assignments option won't be visible in the activity data.

0 will be displayed in the # active assignments field below original total points of the activity summary pane and the force grade link isn't visible.

TIP: If you instead want to force grade all active attempts in this class for a for a specific user:

  1. Click on the user's name in the results table.

A specific user is highlighted in the gradebook search results table.

  1. The user's Attempt Summary pane shows the total numbers of their Completed, Active, To Be Reviewed, and Passed attempts for all activities in the class (check out View student attempt overview for more details on how to interpret this data).

  1. Click Active in the Attempt Summary pane to force grade that number of active attempts in the class.

The active field is clickable in the user's attempt summary.

  1. A confirmation message will appear listing the users with active attempts. Click Force Grade in the confirmation window

The force grade button is the first button at the bottom of the force grade modal.

NOTE: If a student with an in-progress attempt is currently active in Möbius when you click Force Grade, their attempts won't be force graded. To force grade even those in-progress attempts, select the (A) Force Grade All (Includes Active) check box and then click (B) Force Grade.

The force grade all check box is the only check box in the force grade modal. The force grade button is the first button in this modal.

  1. All attempts are graded. You can now edit or delete the activity.

 

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