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Grade written answer questions

Use the grading tab to mark written answer questions in Akindi. Grade by question or by student, turn blind grading on or off, add feedback, and save preset comments to reuse across students.

Written by Erica Chan

The Grading Tab

The grading tab is where you mark your written answer questions. For each question, Akindi displays the question text above the scanned portion of the student's answer, so you can read and mark the response directly in Akindi.

The grading tab showing a question and the scanned student response below it

Grade Written Answer Questions

  1. Enter the mark for the question.

  2. Type in any feedback for the student.

  3. Click 'Confirm Grade' to save comment and mark

Akindi will automatically move to the next question for you to mark.

Enter marks, feedback (optional), Akindi will automatically move you to the next student

💡 Skip ahead
Use the arrow buttons on the top right to skip to other questions without grading the one you're on.

Preset Grades / Comments

Use preset grades and comments to reuse it on other students' answers.

Save preset grades

1. Enter the desired mark and comment.

2. Enable the 'Save as preset' toggle.

3. Click 'Confirm grading' button and the preset grade will be saved and displayed in middle column.

You can create as many preset comments as you need, each with its own mark. New presets appear alongside your existing ones.

enable the save as preset toggle to save comment and mark

Use preset grades

1. Click on the preset grade to apply it to the student's response.

2. Click 'Confirm grading'

Click on preset comment to apply it

Editing preset grades

1. Click the 'Edit' button next to the desired preset grade.

Edit button next to desired preset

2. Akindi will display the number of responses graded by this preset.

Number of responses graded by preset

3. Change the preset's mark and/or comment.

4. Choose to 'Save & regrade' to apply the change to all responses graded by that preset.

OR choose to 'Save preset' to change the preset for future use without regrading previously graded responses.

Save and regrade X responses

💡 Prefer to mark by hand on paper? Use the Enter Hand Written Grade feature to add hand graded marks into Akindi to send a combined grade to your gradebook.

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