Grading or assessment of peer feedback can be extremely time consuming if you are grading for anything other than completion. The Feedback Loop auto grading feature provides granular control over how your student's peer feedback is graded and, when the results are in, you can send all of the automatically calculated grades to your LMS gradebook with a single click.
If you would like to export your grades (for review or manual LMS import), this article explains how.
Using Feedback Loop Auto Grading
- Select Yes in the Create as an assignment selector
- When setting up a survey, select the auto graded option in the "Grade this assignment" selector
- Enter the number of points that you want the assignment to be worth
- Use the grade weighting slider to select between grading for completion, grading for the results a student receives, or any combination of the two.
How Feedback Loop Auto Grading is Calculated
If the grade weighting slider is set to 100% for completion, students receive full credit for this assignment for submitting the survey. Note that once you close the survey, submissions cannot be received.
For any slider setting where there are points scored based on ratings, students receive that percentage of the total available points, based on how highly they were rated by their teammates. The ratings are based on the scale for each question, allowing instructors to use various scales throughout their peer feedback survey. Each question's results are calculated as a percentage (e.g. receiving a 4 on a 5 point scale counts as 80%) and all question's results are averaged for each student to determine the points they get for the ratings portion of their grade.
Example: On a two question survey, a student receives an average score of 4 for a 5 point likert scale question and an average of a 9 out of 10 for another 10 point question. This student gets an 80% for the 4/5 question and a 90% for the 9/10 question for a final result of 85%. If the survey were set to 50% ratings/50% completion, this student's grade would be 92.5% or a 9.25 points on a 10 point assignment.
Sending Auto Grading Results to the LMS Gradebook
When the results are in and you are ready to push these results to your gradebook, click the push results button at the top of the survey page. If this has already been done, the button will transform into a check mark and hovering on this check mark will display the time and date when grades were last pushed. This checkmark can be clicked again to send updated grades to your gradebook in the event that more students completed the survey and you want to give credit to those students for this assignment.
Points Allocation Questions and Auto Grading
Points allocation questions are treated differently from standard scale-based questions. Points allocation is a zero-sum rating, so the stakes are extra high when students rate their teammates. A higher than baseline score on these questions is a strong signal that a student is outperforming within their team and, for this reason, scoring highly on these questions can offset a less than 100% rating on standard scale-based questions.
Points allocation questions include a baseline score. For example, a 20 point baseline score means each student has 20 points multiplied by the number of teammates on their team as a total pool of points to allocate. If a student receives an average of 105% of the baseline from their peers, this provides an offset of up to 5% on any scale-based questions where they received less than perfect scores. This scales up to 110% of the baseline where a student receives a maximum +10% offset on any imperfect scores received elsewhere in this peer feedback survey. Performance above 110% has no additional effct.
A student cannot receive more than the total available points an assignment is worth, so an offset only comes into play when the student was docked points elsewhere in the survey.
