With today's release of Summative Assessment mode support, instructors can now evaluate end-of-unit and final essays without providing feedback comments. Here's how to get started.
We're super-excited that we were able to launch our new Summative Assessment mode in time for most schools' final exams. Finals are the strongest case for when to use Summative Assessment mode; it's too late to provide helpful feedback and the kids won't get much out of it anyway with their minds already on summer.
Enabling Summative Assessment mode
Create or edit an assignment as you normally would. You'll notice a new option: "assessment mode":
The site offers information to help you make sure that the assessment mode you're selecting matches what you're looking for.
Click the droplist and select Summative Assessment mode:
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If you are editing an existing assignment, you'll see a warning about changing assessment modes:
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Summative assessment data are stored slightly differently from formative assessments, therefore the data is invalidated when you switch from one assessment mode to the other. If you have already graded an essay, it will revert to an ungraded state if you change assessment modes.
That's it!
Now you're ready to grade! When you launch the grading app you'll get a quick reminder:
And when you evaluate each rubric element you'll only see one selectable option for each quality level:
Notice that the "add comment" button has been removed.
Data reporting
When you're done grading all the usual data reporting will still be available.
Enjoy! Let me know what you think!