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View the Github ticket for proposal status updates.

Overview

It should be possible to grade participation in discussions and factor this grading into a learner’s score for a course.

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Function

Admin

Discussion Admin*

Discussion Moderator*

TA

Manage graded discussion posts as per the existing discussion roles

Create and manage graded discussion rubrics

Add / edit grades

Grant graded discussion permissions to existing team members

Can grant permissions to: Staff, Discussion Admins, Discussion Moderators, Group Community TAs & Community TAs

Can grant permissions to: 

Discussion Moderators, Group Community TAs & Community TAs

Note:

  • Staff must be assigned a Discussion Admin, or Moderator role before being able to manage Discussions or Graded Discussions

  • The Group Community TA has the same permissions as a Community TA, except the Group Community TA can only manage specific discussion groups assigned to them.

Students can:

  View the discussion’s possible points

View the grading rubric (how will points be awarded)

  View discussion description (how many posts, responses, word count etc)

View the due date

  Add a post to a graded discussion

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If Enabled, the user has the option to add the following grading criteria:
(Note: for MVP, we’d like to leverage as much of the Open Response Assessment’s (ORA) UX and UI as possible)

  • Grading Description (ie. Prompt)

  • Schedule, eg:

    • Discussion start date and time

    • Discussion end date and time

  • Rubric

    • This will follow the current ORA rubric setup:

      • Criterion name (eg: Grammar and spelling)

      • Criterion prompt (ie. Description of how to evaluate a discussion post based on this criterion)

      • Options (eg. “Fair”, “Good”, or “Excellent”)

        • Each option has a Name, Explanation and Point value

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