How do I mark a task?
Once a task has been submitted by a student you will need to mark them if you have not enabled self or peer marking. Most questions can also be marked by AI, but not all.
1. Navigating to a task
To mark a task, log into your teacher account and navigate to:
- The course - by selecting the course tile.
- The class - by selecting the class name.
- The task - by selecting the "TASKS" button.
You will be presented with the Active tasks screen:
Tasks that require some action by you will have a red bell icon next to the "Mark" button.
You will have one of two actions that need to be performed:
- Mark one or more answers.
- Commit the task to the mark book once the marking is complete.
Select the "Mark" button to start the marking process.
2. The marking interface
This screen shows the current status of the marking for the task.
- These are your action tabs. You can change the current tab to view:
- A list of students and the status of their task.
- The question.
- The currently selected student's answer.
- Your (optional) feedback.
- References to videos and course text books.
- Student selection - This is the current student you are marking.
- You can choose any student by selecting their name.
- Marking - This shows you how many questions are ready to be marked.
- If there is a "-" and the student's name is greyed out, this means they have not completed their task yet.
- Status - You are able to see the status of a task.
- Student has started the task.
- Task is awaiting marking.
- Marking complete, can be committed to the mark book.
- Now viewing - this will show what student you are currently marking. This is visible on every action tab so that you can always see who you're marking.
- Navigation buttons [Students] - Use the arrows to navigate to the next or previous student for the same question. Select "Unmarked" to jump immediately to the next unmarked student.
- Navigation buttons [Questions] - Use the arrows to navigate to the next or previous question for the same student. Select "Unmarked" to jump immediately to the next unmarked question.
- Submit - This saves the mark awarded. There is an arrow button next to set the default behaviour when the submit button is selected.
3. Question tab
Before you mark an answer you will want to read the question.
4. Answer tab
Once you have read the question select the answer tab to see the answer the student gave.
Remember, you can see the student you are marking at the bottom of the page
Multiple choice questions are marked automatically. AI marked questions will show the AI feedback.
To mark the answer, or to change the mark awarded by AI either:
- Select the check boxes to indicate to the student how the marks were awarded (this is optional).
- Enter the mark manually in the Total marks box underneath the mark scheme to the left of the Submit button.
Save the mark awarded by selecting "Submit". You can enable this button to automatically navigate to the next student by selecting the up arrow to change the default behaviour.
Navigate to the next student for the same question, or the next question for the same student using the navigation buttons.
5. Feedback tab
You can optionally leave feedback for the student for the whole task or for an individual question.
Students will be able to see your feedback when they look at their task in their mark book.
Select the check box to link the comment to the current question or leave this unchecked to make a general comment for the whole task. Don't forget to save the comment.
6. References tab
In this screen you can see related text book page numbers and video references for the question.
Each type of reference can be toggled on or off in the class settings. We advise only selecting references students will have access to.
Many longer answer questions also have a model answer video. The students can access these from the task in their mark book.
- The quickest way to mark a whole class
Top tip
The quickest way to mark a task is to mark the same question for all students before moving on to the next question. This reduces the need to remember the question and mark scheme and significantly reduces the time to mark a task for the whole task.
1. Select Unmarked underneath the label Students from the navigation buttons.
2. Select the Question tab to read the question.
3. Select the Answer tab to read the answer the student gave.
4. Optionally select the check boxes in the mark scheme to show the student how the mark scheme is applied to their answer. You can just enter the mark at the bottom of the screen instead.
7. If you want to leave feedback to the student for the question or task, select the Feedback tab and write your comments. Remember to save.
8. Select the small up arrow next to the Submit button and select Submit & next unmarked student (you only need to do this the first time - Smart Revise will remember this setting).
9. Repeat steps 3-8 until the question has been marked for all students. You will see a green pop-up toaster at the top of the screen when this happens.
11. Select Unmarked underneath the label Questions from the navigation buttons.. This navigates to the next question that has an answer than needs marking.
12. Repeat steps 2-11 until all the marking is complete.
7. Committing the task to the mark book
Once all the marking for one student, or the whole class is complete you must commit the task to the mark book to release the marks and feedback to the students.
This is not an automatic process because Tasks can be used to set tests and mock exams, and teachers may want to hold back the marks from the students until a future lesson or mock results day.
Select the "Commit to mark book" button.
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