Scan paper assessments (AMP only)

Scan paper assessments overview

This feature lets instructors scan printed answer sheets for managed assessments in Schoology (AMP only) for automatic grading. Instructors can print answer sheets, have students complete them on paper, and then scan or upload them for auto-grading. This saves time and helps students who need paper-based assessments.

This feature is only available for AMP and is in limited release. System Administrators interested in this feature should contact their Schoology representative.

After creating and distributing a managed assessment, instructors can print answer sheets for students. Each sheet includes:

• Assessment title

• Student name and email

• Question numbers

• Answer bubbles

• A unique QR code

Print answer sheets

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. From Actions, choose Print Answer Sheets.

3. Choose the course sections or students.

4. Click Print to download a PDF.

5. Open the PDF and print it. Ensure your printer settings are set to Print to Fit. The border of the answer sheet should fit around the entire page for the scanning function to work.

6. After printing, each student’s name displays Printed when navigating to Grading and selecting By Student.

Scan answer sheets

When students have completed the assessment, you can upload the answer sheets directly to Schoology for automatic grading. Before you upload to Schoology, take pictures of your answer sheets from a device with a camera and upload them to a folder on your computer. Save the image files as JPEG or PDF files to bulk upload directly to the managed assessment.

• Review the answer sheets before uploading to ensure all bubble marks are identifiable. Any slightly marked bubbles will be scanned in as blank and graded as incorrect.

• If you have printed multiple versions of the answer sheets, ensure that the sheets you are uploading belong to the same version. Answer sheets that belong to different versions cannot be uploaded successfully and will produce an upload error.

Upload answer sheets

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. From Actions, choose Upload Answer Sheets.

3. Click Add Sheets, locate and select the document to upload. You can select multiple files using your device’s keyboard shortcuts to bulk upload files.

4. Click X to exit or click Add Sheets to upload more answer sheets.

Submission sheets

After a completed answer sheet has been scanned and graded, instructors and students can review the scanned image of the answer sheet from the managed assessment.

Review submission sheets (instructors)

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. From the By Student view, select the submissions that need grading.

3. For submissions with the Completed status, click the three dots and choose View Submission Sheets. The submission sheet will be displayed on the next page.

4. Click Done to navigate back to the managed assessment grading view.

5. To unsubmit a paper submission, click the three dots to the far right of the student’s name and click Unsubmit.

Review submission sheets (students)

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. Open the managed assessment and click View Submission Sheets. The submission sheet is displayed on the next page.

3. Click Done to navigate back to the managed assessment.

Upload errors

Instructors can review and correct any upload errors that prevented the answer sheet from successfully uploading to the students’ submissions.

Errors may occur when:

• The answer sheet contains stray or unclear marks, such as eraser smudges or white-out.

• More than one bubble is filled in for a question that allows only one response.

• The full page border is not visible in the image frame.

• There is glare or uneven lighting on the image.

• The answer sheets come from different printed versions.

Review upload errors

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. Open the managed assessment and click Grading.

3. Click Resolve Now in the error message.

4. Select the student and submission to review the error. You can select the answers on behalf of the student.

5. Optionally, click Update to confirm the student’s submission. Any error corrections made will now be reflected in the Grading area.

6. Optionally, click Re-Upload to upload another captured answer sheet. You will be prompted to select a file on your computer to upload.

7. Optionally, click Skip to move to the next submission error. The submission will be removed from the error list.

8. Click X to exit and return to the managed assessment.

Grade subjective questions

Instructors can use the Grade by Question view to grade the subjective question type, Short Answer/Essay, in managed assessments.

The By Student view does not display students' submissions for Short Answer/Essay question type only.

The printed answer sheet contains a textbox for students to enter their answer for Short Answer/Essay questions.

Answer sheets that contain the Short Answer/Essay question type can be uploaded in the same workflows listed above.

Grade short answer or essay questions

1. Navigate to a course, choose the managed assessment, and select Grading.

2. Click By Question.

3. Click Needs Grading for the subjective question.

4. Click View Submission Sheets to review the student's response.

5. Click Done.

6. Enter the student’s score.

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