Human-in-the-loop grading, handwritten work with OCR, and communicating grades with students.
Section videos
Walkthrough videos for Grading & oversight
Pick a walkthrough to play it. Worth watching before working through the guides below.
An open-ended question with its Grading panel expanded. Each criterion, such as “Identifies effects on internal users”, carries a percentage weight, and criteria can be generated, added, locked or removed.
Written guides
Typing equations, symbols and scientific notation is slow and fiddly, and it costs students time they do not have in an exam. OCR lets them write those answers by hand instead: they photograph the page, and the system reads it into text you can grade.
Writing on paper. On open-ended questions, students work on paper and upload a photo of it from the paper clip on the question. OCR reads the handwriting, and the answer is graded like any other.
Reading the handwriting. The system turns the handwriting and notation into clean text, which goes straight into your grading criteria.
Checking it against the original. The photo the student uploaded sits beside the transcribed text in the grading view, so you can always see what they actually wrote.
Critical lockout warning
Handwritten-work OCR is not compatible with strict automated exam supervision settings. Because uploading a photo takes the student out to their own file picker for a moment, activating browser tab/window lockouts at the same time will flag and repeatedly lock the student out of the exam.