Explanations on student responses (Original)

When marking student responses, you have the options:

to provide comments within the responses using highlights and annotations, and/or
to provide explanations for the marks you gave on the responses

When releasing the final results for students, two options are available:

Explanations can be made available for students as overall feedback.
Explanations can be used as notes for marks moderation and won't be made available to students.

Explanations can be:

Text
Recording
File attached

Notes:

Explanations are the first feedback students receive when the test results are released to them.
While explanations provide overall feedback to a student's response, annotations provide in-text feedback. Page notes also provide overall feedback, but students will need to navigate to each question to view the feedback for each response while explanations are visible on one page when results are released to students.
The explanations functionality needs to be enabled in Deliver if explanations are to be made available to students. Refer to the Inspera Test settings guide (Step 16) for detailed instructions.
Each student's submission has ONE explanations page, i.e. if a test has multiple graders who mark specific questions, all explanations will be added to the same explanations page.
Marks must be confirmed before the explanations can be made available for students. If not, the explanations will remain available only for the planners and graders of the test.
Only planner can send explanations to students.

Add text explanations

Tips:

If you need to provide explanations for the response you are marking, it is recommended that you do it when marking.
You will need to navigate back and forth between Marking and Explanations tab.
The 'sticky' technology in Workspaces allows you to navigate to different tabs while marking the same student and question.

Video Guide

Marking navigation in Inspera (YouTube 1m37s) - please watch from 1m for instructions on adding explanations on marks.

Instructions

From the question (Question 9) you have entered mark (e.g. mark 6), click on the Explanations tab.

Enter the explanations for the mark given.

Tip: As each student's submission has one Explanations page, it is recommended that you add the Question number before the explanation so students will be able to relate the explanations to the specific questions.

Click on the Save button.

Click on the Mark as ready button.

Optionally, if you need to amend the explanations, click on the Continue editing button.
Note: The Send to candidate button should not be clicked on at this point and should be completed by the Planner in the assessment's settings in Deliver.

Record an explanation

Click on the Record button.

Note: The recording will start immediately and the lines will move to indicate the sound being recorded.

The following buttons are discussed from left to right and do not need to be completed in order to finalise the recording:
1. When feedback has finished recording, click on the Save button.
2. Optionally, click on the Pause button to pause the recording. Then click on Resume recording button to continue the recording.
3. Optionally, click on the Restart recording button to restart the recording.
4. Optionally, click on the Cancel button to stop recording.

save button, pause/resume recording, restart recording and cancel buttons selected

Optionally, enter the title in the Feedback to <student number> textbox.
Click on the Save button.

Note: The recording itself cannot be edited after it has been saved, and will need to be deleted and re-recorded.

feedback to student number selected, save button selected

Delete a recorded explanation

Click on the bin icon.

Warning: No confirmation option appears prior to deletion.

bin icon selected

Attach an explanation file

Add question private notes

Question private notes provides space for graders to write notes to themselves when marking responses. These notes can then be transferred to Explanations and shared with students if required.

From the question (Question 9) you have entered mark (e.g. mark 6), click on the Explanations tab.

Enter the private notes into the Question private notes textbox.

Optionally, click on the Insert private notes button if you want to transfer the private notes to Explanations.

The notes will be transferred to the Explanations page with your name and question number. Note: Optionally, you can delete your name. If you enter your explanations in the Explanations page directly, your name won't be recorded.
Click on the Save button.

Release explanations for students

Warning: Explanations cannot be recalled if sent by mistake.

Note: Only Planners can send explanations.

Click on Deliver.
Optionally, enter the course code etc in the Search textbox.
Click on the required assessment.

deliver selected, search textbox selected, assessment selected

Click on Ready in the Explanations section.

ready selected

Note: If there are any Explanations in Draft, the option Mark as ready in the Grade tab needs to be selected before the they can be bulk-released to students.

Check the checkbox to select all students or check the checkbox for the appropriate students.
Click on Send explanation.

checkbox for all, checkbox for student selected, send explanation selected