{"id":969,"date":"2012-10-17T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2012-10-17T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:02:34","slug":"save-time-grading-with-joule-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/10\/17\/save-time-grading-with-joule-grader\/","title":{"rendered":"Save time grading with joule Grader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kacey\/4457548216\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2819 alignright\" title=\"Save time\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/10\/clock_1_crop-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Save time\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>Providing feedback and grading assignments can be very time consuming. Luckily, Moodle has a new feature that makes grading more efficient. The joule Grader puts all student submissions in one place making it easier for professors to grade one assignment and quickly move to the next assignment.\u00a0<!--more--><span id=\"more-2804\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of joule Grader<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Easily navigate between student assignments with fewer clicks<\/li>\n<li>View all the discussion board posts for each student on one screen<\/li>\n<li>View submitted assignments, leave feedback and grade the assignment from one screen<\/li>\n<li>View PDF documents directly in joule Grader without downloading the file<\/li>\n<li>Integrate with a <a title=\"uMass: Moodle Rubrics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oit.umass.edu\/support\/moodle\/grade-rubrics-moodle\">Moodle rubric<\/a> so students can see where they excelled and where there is room for improvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Details of joule Grader<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Moodlerooms video: joule Grader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IFViQuBo6Ys\">View a quick video introducing how to use joule Grader.<\/a> (The Moodle in the video looks different than Elon\u2019s Moodle. Don\u2019t worry, the features are the same.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Moodlerooms documentation: joule Grader\" href=\"http:\/\/manuals.moodlerooms.com\/display\/JOULE2\/Moodlerooms+Manual#MoodleroomsManual-jouleGrader\">Read the documentation from Moodlerooms for more details on joule Grader.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Access joule Grader<\/h2>\n<p>To access the joule Grader, click on joule Grader on the left of the screen, under Settings\/Course administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/10\/joule_grader.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"joule Grader\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/10\/joule_grader-120x300.png\" alt=\"Access joule Grader\" width=\"120\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Other ways to save time grading in Moodle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"uMass Moodle Rubrics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oit.umass.edu\/support\/moodle\/grade-rubrics-moodle\">Use Moodle rubrics to quickly assess student work <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Moodlerooms Blog: grading checklist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moodlerooms.com\/blog\/__node\/page-1\/post-2940621216785030046\/\">Use grading checklists<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Use Moodle\u2019s online text assignment for writing assignments when formatting or page count is not important<\/li>\n<li>When students upload documents, require they submit their work as a PDF file so you can view it in joule Grader without downloading the file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In case you were wondering, joule is the name Moodlerooms, Elon\u2019s Moodle provider, has given this feature. If you ask us, Grader would have been just fine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Flickr image - KaCey97007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kacey\/4457548216\/\">Modified image by Flickr user\u00a0KaCey97007<\/a><a title=\"Fllickr User LOLRen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/laurenprofeta\/4995753449\/\"><\/a> \/\u00a0<a title=\"Creative Commons License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons licensed BY-NC 2.0<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing feedback and grading assignments can be very time consuming. Luckily, Moodle has a new feature that makes grading more efficient. The joule Grader puts all student submissions in one place making it easier for professors to grade one assignment and quickly move to the next assignment. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/10\/17\/save-time-grading-with-joule-grader\/\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,27842,21426,19535,22993,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback","category-grades","category-moodle","category-moodle-musings","category-rubric","category-teaching-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}