Welcome to Akindi!
This guide will walk you through how to grade a paper assessment with Akindi. These steps come after test day.
Haven't created your assessment yet? Check out the Getting started guide.
Whether you started with questions or started with answer key, the following scan, upload, and results steps are the same.
Scanning test packets
After the assessment, collect the bubble sheets and written answer sheets to be scanned
Use any scanner with a document feeder to scan the test sheets into a PDF
Ensure that the 4 corner squares and the QR code are visible and intact
Your scanner will generate a PDF of your scanned sheets. This is the PDF you'll upload onto Akindi
⚠️ If your test packets were printed using the One Packet option, you must scan your written answer sheet and bubble sheet in order.
Learn more about test packets here.
Uploading test packets
To upload the PDF of your students' completed packets to be graded by Akindi:
Log into your Akindi account, click ‘Upload Response Sheets’ on your course dashboard or through the 'Uploads' tab from within your assessment.
Select the PDF file containing the scanned bubble sheets.
Click ‘Upload’.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our Scanning and Uploading Sheets guide for best scanning practices and more details on how to upload sheets.
Resolving Exceptions in Review & Fix
When scanning the bubble sheets, exceptions are called when bubble sheet information is missing, vague, or unclear. Exceptions are found in the Review & Fix tab.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our full Review & Fix exceptions guide to learn about the different types of exceptions and how to fix them.
Grading Written Answer Questions
Now that you've scanned in your written answer sheets, you can grade from anywhere! Grade written answer questions in the 'Grading' Tab
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our full Grade written answer questions guide to learn about how to digitally grade your student's written responses.
Assessment Results
Akindi Results are broken down into three separate tabs to help you better understand how your students performed and how well your assessment questions performed:
Overview Tab - gives you a snapshot of your assessment’s overall performance. Think of it as your “at-a-glance” dashboard for results.
Graphs Tab - contains the item analysis of all your questions, making it easy to spot patterns and trends at a glance.
Responses Tab - the full spreadsheet view of all the students and their individual grades.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
Check out the following articles to learn more about the assessment results and analytics:
Analyzing the results using the Overview & Graphs tab
How to read the responses chart
By default, Questions are displayed in original order.
Answers are scrambled and are shown here as the students see them on their bubble sheets
To see questions in scrambled order, select the desired version from the drop down menu.
⭐️ Dive Deeper! Learn more about the Responses tab.
Enter Hand Graded Marks
If you did not upload your written answer questions into Akindi, or started your assessment with an answer key, but still want to incorporate your written answer grade, you can use the Enter hand graded marks feature.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our full Enter Hand Graded Marks guide to learn more about entering marks for written answer questions.
Exporting Results to you LMS Grade Book
Click on "Send grades to LMS"
2. Select an existing grade item, or create a new one, to specify where the grades will be sent in your LMS grade book.
3. Akindi will display a summary of the number of grades that will be sent.
Click 'Send'.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
Here is a full guide to exporting assessment data, including how to:
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