How do I grade an assignment using the legacy grading interface?

This article describes how to grade an assignment using the legacy grading interface. For instructions on grading using the new grader interface, see How do I grade an assignment?

Go to Assignments.

Select the Assignments tool from the Tool Menu in your site.

Select the assignment to grade.

Click the Grade option associated with an assignment.

Note: If you did not choose a grading scale for the assignment, View Submissions will be displayed to you rather than Grade.

Uncheck the box next to Use new Grader to grade submissions.

Image indicating the location of the Use new Grader to grade submissions checkbox.

Uncheck Use Sakai Grader to grade submissions, which is activated by default.

Select a student to grade.

Image of the grade student page in assignments

Select a student to grade by clicking on their ID in the Student column.

View the student's submission.

The student's inline submission displays in the Rich Text Editor.
The student's submitted file(s) are available in the Submitted Attachments area. Click the file(s) to open or download them.

Enter grade.

Enter the score for the student's assignment in the Grade field. The maximum available points display to you next to the Grade field..

Or, grade with a rubric

If you've attached a rubric the assignment, click the Grading Rubric tab to open the rubric grading area.

Image of the rubric grading area. Usage of selections in each criterion as well as comments are depicted.

Click one item per rubric criterion.
Optionally enter comments about your selection within each criterion. Click Done to save the comments.

Enter instructor comments.

image of the instructor comments text box

Using the Rich Text Editor, enter comments in the Instructor Summary Comments field.

Add a feedback attachment. (Optional)

To add a file attachment as part of feedback that will be available to the student, click Add Attachments and then attach a file from your device.

Allow resubmissions.

If you would like to allow the student to resubmit the assignment, check the Allow Resubmission box and specify the number of resubmissions allowed and the date until which they will be accepted.

Note: If you allowed resubmissions on the assignment when you created it, this information will be prepopulated with the default resubmission information for this assignment. Override the default resubmission settings for an individual student by changing the information in the Allow Resubmission area.

Save the score and feedback.

Click Save and Don't Release to Student to save the grade and feedback. This option does not release the grade to the student.
Or, click Save and Release to Student to immediately release the grade and feedback to the student.

Tip: Some instructors prefer to release all of the grades and feedback at one time after they have finished entering grades for the entire class. See How do I release assignment grades? for more information about releasing all grades and feedback at one time.

Navigate to other submissions. (Optional)

Image of the navigation settings for assignment submissions

Use the Navigate Submissions area to navigate to other student submissions.

Click Next Ungraded to navigate to the next submission in the sequence with no feedback, or click Next to navigate to the next submission in the sequence regardless of feedback.
Click Previous Ungraded to navigate to the previous submission in the sequence with no feedback, or click Previous to navigate to the previous submission in the sequence regardless of feedback.
Check Navigate between students with submissions only to cause navigation to include only students with submissions to this assignment.