Enhanced ORA Grading Experience (Palm)

Enhanced ORA Grading Experience (Palm)#

In the latest Open edX release, Palm, the ORA (Open Response Assessment) tool has been upgraded to provide a better grading experience for course instructors.

What has changed?#

In this new on-platform grading experience, one can assign rubric values, provide comments, and coordinate grading with all members of the course teams. Additionally, graders can easily preview common file types, including:

  • Images (gif, png, jpeg)

  • Plain-text (with monotype fonts and line feeds intact)

  • .txt tabular data (.csv files will not preview)

  • PDFs, including multi-page PDFs with page selection

From the ORA grading interface, instructors can select multiple submissions and click the View button to enter a grading mode for those submissions:

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In the grading mode, there are four things to note, illustrated in this picture and described below:

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  1. This is a display of a learner’s username, the status of their submission (for example, “Grading Complete” or “Currently being graded by someone else”), and their current score.

  2. “Show Rubric” is a button that, when clicked, displays the rubric on the right hand side of the learner’s submission:

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  3. When “Override Grade” is selected, the above rubric display becomes editable. Grade line items and comments can be changed.

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    The score information is not saved until pressing the submit button. This means you can score a response, move on to another, and then go back to the first response and change the grade again - all without pushing scores to the LMS for persistence.

  4. The page selector allows course staff to navigate through the submissions.

Pay attention to the fact that Grade Override is a permanent action; it cannot be undone. Course staff are given a prompt before entering Grade Override mode to make sure that is understood.

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Where can I go for more information?#

For more information about how this feature works, see the Staff Grading for Open Response Assignments documentation.

How can I get this?#

The ORA improvements are available as of the Open edX Palm release. Upgrading your local installation to Palm will guarantee that your system is up-to-datewith the latest features, including the ORA Grading MFE (Micro-Front End). To turn on the feature, add the feature flag openresponseassessment.enhanced_staff_grader.