Overview

Students see the Grades area very differently from instructors. They also receive email notifications about changes to their grades. It can be helpful to understand how to submit an assignment as a "test" student so that you can try out your grading workflow.

Students will receive notifications about their grades when:

New grades are posted
Their grade is changed
Grade weighting or grade curving is changed

How students view their grades and find feedback:

Once you have posted your grades, students will see on their Camino dashboard their scores and a preview of the written feedback.

Students can also go to your course to see a list of assignments rather than columns when they view their grades. They can click on the assignment name to see full feedback:

GUIDE: Viewing grades as a student
GUIDE: Viewing feedback from the gradebook page

Grades for the student "Bucky Bronco" in a list arranged by due date.

Tips for Encouraging Students to View Feedback

GENIUS: Feel free to save and upload this animated tutorial showing students where to find instructor feedback to your course (right-click and Save on PC, ctrl+click and Save on Mac).

Animated GIF: Two ways to view feedback in Camino.

Hide grade totals and the grade distribution graph

GUIDE: Hide Students' Grade Totals
- You may want to hide the students' grade totals so that they do not see their final grade for the course until you are finished grading. This will also hide their total score for assignment groups.

View Grade Totals

Hide Grade Totals

This image shows the student view of their grades page. Students can see their assignment group scores and their total score.

This image shows the student view of their grades page with "Hide Final Grades" enabled. Students can not see their assignment group scores or their total score.

Hiding Course Grades Summary

GUIDE: Hide the Course Grades Summary (Distribution Graph) from Students
- This distribution graph shows the mean score, high score, and low score for the entire class with a box-and-whisker plot. If you do not wants students to be able to see how their grade compares to others in the class, you should disable this function.

This image shows the grade distribution graph where students can see the Mean, High, and Low scores for an assignment.

If you'd like to disable these, go into your course Settings tab, click More Options, and view or change the following:

Visibility of Grade Totals
Visibility of Grade Distribution Graph

Activities

Find the assignment you graded in the first workshop activity. This assignment should now have grades for "Test Student."

Using Student View from the home page, click on Grades to view your grades for the assignment as a student in the Camino course.

Advanced: Leave Student View. Go to SpeedGrader for the assignment and leave Test Student some feedback. Go back to Student View and see if you can find it.

Click "Next" or "Previous" at the bottom of each page to progress through the module.

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