Grading
You can provide students with grades and comments on the OpenLab using the WP Grade Comments plugin:
- Allows faculty to privately grade posts written by students, while also leaving feedback in the form of a comment.
Comments can be private or public, depending on your needs and goals. - A private comment might be best when the feedback will only directly benefit the student whose work is being evaluated.
- A public comment can be a great way to give general feedback that all students will benefit from seeing.
- For more information: WP Grade Comments
You might also consider providing a link to Brightspace for students to check their grades there on your Course Site or Course Profile using the Related Link List in Settings.
Things to remember:
- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) protects student record privacy, which includes student grades. It would be a violation of FERPA to grade student work publicly. While faculty can give students public feedback in the form of comments on their work, actual grades must be given privately.
- Faculty should respect students’ preferences and use their display name in public comments if they have chosen to use a pseudonym on the OpenLab.
- As you would in any course, online or offline, we recommend making grading criteria and feedback easy to understand and clearly available on your OpenLab Course.
