Mark assignments (flagging)
Assess with a rubric
Assess with a grade item
Assess with anonymous marking
Assess video assignments 

If you want to assess an assignment (grade it) and register the result in Brightspace, you have to attach the assignment to a grade item. This way graded submissions will be registered in the grade book in Brightspace. You can also assess an assignment using a rubric if you have attached a rubric to the assignment.

After you have created a rubric and attached it to an assignment, you can use this rubric to assess submissions.

• Navigate to Activities in the navbar of your course.
• Click on Assignments.
• Click the assignment to see the submissions you want to assess.

At the bottom of your screen you see the overview of all submissions. You can filter these submissions based on:

1. Student name (use the search bar);
2. Submission specifics. To do this, click the drop-down menu under Submissions and select:
   • Show everyone (all submissions);
   • Users with/without submissions (only those students who have or have not submitted their assignment). If you have filtered by Users with submissions, you can also select whether you want to see:
     • unread submissions only (Only show users with unread submissions);
     • assignments that were handed in during a specific period (you can specify the date and whether you want to see assignments that were handed in before or after that date);
     • submissions that were handed in late only (Late Submissions).
   • Users with preview submissions (for example, to see those assignments you have handed in yourself as a test);
   • Users with graded unpublished submissions (students whose assignments have already been assessed, but the assessment has not yet been published).
   • Furthermore, you can also select for each filter option whether you only want to see those students who are exempt (Users who are exempt).  
3. Under Feedback you can filter all submissions (Show everyone) or just those with feedback (already assessed) or without feedback (Users with/without feedback).

• In this tab you can also download files, send an email to your students, mark submissions as read/unread, delete submissions, or publish the feedback you have given. To do so, select one or more students (or click the box at the top left to select everyone) and then click on the desired action. If you select and download several files at one, these files will be put together in a zip-file.
• Click on the file name of the document to open it for assessment/add feedback.

You can fill out the Rubric in two ways:

1. Click the box to open the Rubric in a new window.
2. Click the Rubric to open a short version of the Rubric in the menu.

The first method looks like this:

1. For each criterion, click on the level you want to award it.
2. You can add additional feedback for each criterion. Click Add Feedback to do so. A text box will open that allows you to give feedback to a student for each criterion.
3. On the right side you will see a column named Criterion Score. You will see the score achieved for each criterion. The Total score is the total of each of these scores.
4. At the bottom of the rubric you can find the total amount of points a student can acquire.
5. Overall Score shows you the performance level for the amount of points acquired. You can choose to change the automatically assigned performance level by clicking another level.
6. Click Close to return to the assignment. The feedback will be saved automatically.

The second method to fill out your Rubric works like this:

This version uses the shortened Rubric.

1.  Use the slider to view and assign the levels for each criterium. You can look at the different levels by clicking the arrows on the left and right side of the bar. You can also move the gray box on the bar. 
2. Click the gray box when it is at the right level to assign this level. A checkmark will appear in the assigned level.
3. You will see a description of the level you have selected below the bar.
4. Click Add Feedback to add feedback to the criterium. 
5. Click the arrow in the right corner to fold the Rubric.

• You can see when you have not yet filled out all criteria because of the text below the Rubric.
• Click the statistics icon to view the statistics about the rubric.

1. Below Overall you will find the average score of all students on the rubric as a whole.
2. Below Criteria Statistics you will find the average score for all students for each criterium.
3. Below Individual Statistics you will find the statistics about specific students and which lecturer assessed.
4. Click Close to close the window.

1. Brightspace will enter the score and calculate the grade.
2. Below the three dots you will find three different options:
   • Edit Activity: Immediately go to the Assignment editing.
   • Preview Activity: Immediately go to the original Assignment. This applies to all people with Grader rights.
   • Special Access Dates: Immediately go to the special access features.
3.  Use Overall Feedback to add general feedback. The feedback from the rubric will not be added here.
4. Click Publish/Update if you want to (re)publish the feedback (and grade) to the student.
   Click Save Draft/Retract if you want to save the assessment but do not yet want to publish the result to the student.

At the bottom of your screen you can find an overview of the submissions per student. You can filter these submissions based on:

1. Student name (use the search bar);
2. The type of submissions. To do this, go to Submissions and select:
   • Show everyone (all submissions);
   • Users with/without submissions (only those students who have or have not handed in the assignments). If you have filtered by Users with submissions, you can also select whether you want to see:
     • unread submissions only (Only show users with unread submissions);
     • assignments that were handed in during a specific period (you can specify the date and whether you want to see assignments that were handed in before or after that date);
     • submissions that were handed in late only (Late Submissions).
   • Users with preview submissions (for example, to see those assignments you have handed in yourself as a test);
   • Users with graded unpublished submissions (students whose assignments have already been assessed, but the assessment has not yet been published.
   • Furthermore, you can also select for each filter options whether you only want to see those students who are exempt (Users who are exempt).  
3. Use Feedback to choose whether you want to see all submissions (Show everyone) or just those with or without feedback (Users with/without feedback).

• You can download files, mail them to students, mark them as read/unread, delete them, or publish the feedback you have given. To do so, select one or more students (or click the box at the top left to select everyone) and then click on the desired action. If you select and download several files at one, these files will be put together in a zip-file.
• Click on the file name of the document to assess it.

1. Enter the score manually. When a rubric has been added, Brightspace will calculate the grade automatically.
2. Use Overall Feedback to give general feedback in addition to the grade.
3. You can also add a file to your assessment. This file will be shown next to the grade in the gradebook.
4. Click Publish/Update if you want to (re)publish the feedback and want to let the student know about their score.
   Click Save Draft/Retract if you want to save the assessment but do not yet want to show the student.

• It is also possible to assess the assignment with the help of a list, if you have connected a selectbox-type grade item to the assignment.  In that case, you assign a predetermined value to the assignment that fits the students' performance.