Evaluating students: Using Your course gradebook with managed assessments (AMP)

Edit AMP assessment settings

After an AMP team member has distributed the managed assessment to sections, instructors can edit certain settings to determine how students’ scores contribute to their overall course grades.

1. Select AMP and choose Assessment Teams.

2. Select the relevant Assessment Team.

3. Select the managed assessment’s gear icon and choose Edit.

4. As the course admin, edit the following settings:

   • Choose a Due Date to place it in the course calendar and Upcoming area. This also enables overdue notifications if a student fails to submit the assignment by the due date.

   • Select a Grading Category. If you do not select a grading category, it is automatically placed in the Ungraded category and does not appear in your gradebook.

   • Click Grading Options and select a Grading Period to determine toward which grading period the students’ scores will count.

   • Select a factor to apply a relatively higher or lower weight in the grade calculation to each material.

   • Select a Grading Scale.

   • Click Individually Assign to make the assessment accessible to select members of your course.

   • Publish/Unpublish: Unpublish the assessment to hide it from the student.

Course Admins can also change the Availability of the assessment to specify when students can take it.

Publish a managed assessment

When an assessment is distributed to your course, it is automatically set to Unpublished and Unavailable by default. When it is time for students to take the test:

1. Select AMP and choose Assessment Teams.

2. Select the relevant Assessment Team.

3. Click the assessment title.

4. Click Manage Assessment to display the instructions and settings configured by the AMP Team that created it. As the course admin, you can only change the availability.

5. To allow students to take the test, select Available Now from the Availability list. Alternatively, select Available from...until… or Available now until… to automate the window of time during which students may take the assessment.

6. Click Save.

7. Click the assessment’s gear icon on your materials page.

8. Select Publish.

Grade students’ submissions

If the assessment contains subjective questions, the course admin must grade them for the scores to populate in the course gradebook and the results analytic reports.

1. Select AMP and choose Assessment Teams.

2. Select the relevant Assessment Team.

3. Click the assessment title.

4. Click Grading and choose to grade By Question or By Student.

5. Click an individual question or a student's submission to grade.

6. Optionally, click Add Feedback for each item to add text, image, audio, or video feedback to students.

Students' submissions will display one of the following statuses:

• Scores pending

• Needs grading

• Completed

After a student submits an assessment, the status displays Scores Pending.
If the assessment has only auto-graded questions, the score should appear within a few seconds.

Schoology expects scores to process within 2 minutes. If processing takes longer, contact PowerSchool Support.

If the assessment includes subjective (manually graded) questions, the status displays Needs Grading. The course admin must grade these questions before the status changes to completed and the score appears in Gradebook Points.

If the assessment is a graded item in the course, the score also appears on the student’s submission and in the course gradebook once grading is complete.