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Marking Exams in Inspera

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Marking your exams in Inspera

The Digital Exams Team have created a set of videos to help guide users on marking exam questions in Inspera. These marking videos depict various steps in the marking processes.

How to navigate Inspera Grade

There is guidance available from Inspera that details workspace navigation when using Grade. Within the Inspera Grade area, as a marker you will have access to the Grader workflow.

Find out about the different workspaces in the following dropdowns.

Grading Overview

This area as an overview depicts the grading status of the exam. For example if marking has not yet been finished, you can click ‘complete your grading’ and be directed to the Marking view. You can click on student IDs and be directed to the Candidate in focus view. You can also search by typing student IDs into the search box.

The Grading Overview has a default filtering tabs of 'Flagged candidates' next to 'All Candidates'. This area will reflect if any student has been ‘flagged’. You can flag a student in the Grading Overview by clicking the 'flag' icon on the left.

Candidate in Focus

You are able to navigate to any student by using the drop down (to see a list of all students) or by using the ‘next’ arrow button on the right, which will move to the next student.

There is a status shown in Grade for each student. For example, 'Calculating - Incomplete marks'.

Each student’s candidate in focus area will show questions answered and marking completed.

Marking

You are able to navigate to students and questions. To move between students, use the drop down (to see a list of all students) or by using the ‘next’ arrow button on the right, which will move to the next student.

Please note: if you are moving between students, the question currently viewed will automatically show for the next student. However if the next student has not answered the current question, the marking flow will divert to the next available question. This will occur for exams using Candidate Selected Questions.

To navigate to questions, use the drop down (to see a list of all questions) or by using the next arrow button on the right, which will move to the next question.

Questions

This area provides an overview or data table of questions within the exam. You can view all questions, manually marked questions or you can click the question name to be directed to the marking view of that question. You can search for a question using the Search box- note the search will use the question title.

If you wish to you can order the questions in alphabetical order by clicking on Question Name.