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How?

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Teacher insights and review

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Trends and

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Best practices to get started

3 steps to achieve best-practice grading:

1. 🖥️ Assignment format: Ensure that the assignments include only one task and one answer.
2. ✏️ Assignment instructions: Provide clear assignment instructions.
3. 🔍 Rubric: Provide a specific rubric/grading criteria or choose from one of our templates.

Assignment Format

CoGrader is currently optimized for a "one-prompt, one-answer" format. We are working on enabling other formats and you should hear from us about this soon.

Checklist:

• For the best grading results, ensure that each document is structured to contain only a single task and a single answer.
• If your document includes multiple prompts or questions, CoGrader may not function optimally.
• As you've already provided the prompt in the "Assignment instructions", the imported file should ideally only feature the student's answer.

Here is an example of a Google Doc assignment which will be imported successfully.

Assignment instructions

For optimal results, write a simple description of what exactly you are looking for in that specific assignment. Make sure to only keep information that is relevant for CoGrader to grade.

Examples

Good assignment instructions:

Write an essay on the book 'The Great Gatsby'. Specifically, address the theme of the book and analyze how complex characters develop over the course of the text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot to determine a theme or central idea.

Why is it good?

It provides all the necessary context for CoGrader to co-grade the assignment, yet it's brief.

→ What exactly the student is expected to do, the name of the book, and the essay content.

Assignment instructions

Bad assignment instructions 👎

• Skim through 'The Great Gatsby' and your class notes.
• Write 1 page (double spaced) essay on it. Address the theme of the book and analyze how complex characters develop over the course of the text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot to determine a theme or central idea.
• Copy and paste your writing into Chat GPT and ask it to move your ideas so that sentences about similar topics into unified paragraphs WITHOUT adding any additional writing or changing any of the words.
• Copy and paste it into a new document.
• Add a title and your name at the top.
• Paste this into the attached document and add to your ideas.
• Click "turn in."

Why is it bad?

• Most instructions are not relevant to how CoGrader should grade the assignment.

Rubric / Grading Criteria

This is where the magic happens - the quality of the output (suggested feedback and grades) depends on how clear and specific the rubric / grading criteria is.

CoGrader provides template rubrics which you can use off the shelf, or edit. You can also use your own rubrics.

• If you use or edit one of our templates, you’ll achieve optimal results.
• If you use your own, you should make sure that each criterion is very clear.

💡 If you want to create your own Rubric, use the AP Rubrics as reference of what "specific and clear" criteria looks like.

Thanks!

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