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How to be a TA in charge of Essay Management

Page history last edited by Jim Davies 10 months, 2 weeks ago

CGSC1001 has an essay component. There are four due dates, depending on the book the student chooses, plus the term paper. There tend to be about equal numbers of students for each of the three due dates. The TA in charge of Essay management, you, will determine which TA will grade which essay. Every time you do this, you need to check the syllabus on the website--sometimes the list of TAs changes over the course of the semester, and there are a lot of them. 

 

Make sure the essay and term paper marks are "hidden" from the students on the Learning Management System. Make them visible only after all the marks for that particular essay are in.

 

Common Sources of plagiarism:

https://github.com/kwojcicki/cgsc-1001/blob/master/essay.pdf

https://www.studocu.com/en-ca/document/carleton-university/mysteries-of-the-mind/essays/cognitive-science-essay/3412229/view

https://www.studocu.com/en-ca/course/carleton-university/mysteries-of-the-mind/250471

 

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How to see how many essays need marking:

  1. On the course webpage, go to the Tools drop-down menu
  2. Click Assignments
  3. From this page, you can see how many essays in a category still need marking by looking at the numbers in the New Submissions column.

the easiest way to view submissions that need to be evaluated is to use the search filters on the assignment submissions page: 

 

 

     

    How to see which students still need marking

    1. On the course webpage, go to the Tools drop-down menu
    2. Click Assignments
    3. Click on the name of the assignment you are interested in. 
    4. There are two tabs, Users and Submissions. Click Submissions.
    5. For each row, there is a little envelope icon. If there is a piece of paper sticking out of it, it means it was viewed. Any assignment unviewed has been unmarked.

     

     

    How to access the assignments for marking:

    1.  On the course page, Course Admin
    2. Click Assignments 
    3.  On the Course Admin page, select the current assignment. The list of students who submitted their assignment is now visible. Make sure the list in an ascending alphabetical order.
    4. Navigate to the students name. 
    5. Select the students name, or select Evaluate. Both bring up the student's submission page.
    6. On the right-hand side is the Rubric for the essay identified by the essay name and the course name. Select the essay name and the marking rubric is displayed beside the essay.  To view the the rubric's evaluation criteria, select the redirect box at the top right of the rubric. The rubric contents are displayed as a separate page that can be minimized  to get it out of the way.
    7. Mark the essay by clicking on the box for evaluation category. The left most box is 25% and the right most is 5%. The total mark is 100% over four categories. 
    8. Once the evaluation is complete, select Save Draft. If you are interrupted during marking, you can also save the marks in the draft. When you return to marking the student, the Evaluate button will be replaced by Draft Saved. Select Draft Saved to continue marking.
    9. To return to the student submissions select  Back to Submissions at the top of the page. Do not use the browser back button, it takes a few steps to return to the submissions page. 
    10. In the comments section at the bottom, enter your name, and any comments you may have for the student.  Make sure to enter your name so the student knows who to contact if they have any questions.
    11. There are at least two ways to access the student: using the search or scrolling to the name. The number of students displayed on the page is selectable at the bottom of the page.
    12. The TA in charge of essays will publish the evaluations on the due date, selecting Publish all Feedback on the course submission page.

     

     

    It is unlikely that the number will be easily divisible. Give yourself the remainder, so that you have the fewest number of essays to grade. To compensate for this, you will grade any that are late for some (good) reason, or to regrade essays that have disputed grades. In your email to the TAs, make sure you tell them the following:

     

    When you grade the essays, you need to put comments. This is the only way that they will become better writers because the professor doesn't lecture on writing in class. Also, sign your name, so if they want to come to discuss it, they will know which TA to go to. Essays shall be graded without two weeks of the due date. It should take between 10 and 15 minutes per essay. If you suspect plagiarism,  paste the essay into  https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ and see if stuff was copied verbatim. If so, do not grade the essay. There are also essays on Course Hero and StuDocsU. Before you grade, take a glance at the ones there for the right book. https://www.coursehero.com/sitemap/schools/2664-Carleton-University/courses/1747232-CGSC1001/ Contact me and the professor if you notice plagiarism. 

     

    When it is the Term paper, please also include this: 

     

    As you grade the term papers, please keep track of which papers are the best ones for each topic. After you are done grading, please send me list of topics with the names of the students with the top papers.  

     

    Moodle/CULearn (OUTDATED)

     

     

    The following steps is one procedure that can be used to access, allocate and mark essays.

    1. Start by accessing the cuLearn course list, and select the relevant CGSC1001 course.

    2. In the CGSC1001 “Essay Assignment” section, select the assignment to be marked. This will take you to the Grading Summary page. On this page is the following information:

      1. Hidden from Students. Initially this is set to [Yes]. Once the marking is complete the Teaching Assistant in charge of assignment allocation sets this to [No].

      2. Participants identifies the number of students in the course.

      3. Submitted identifies the number assignments that have been submitted

      4. Needs grading starts as equal to Submitted, but reduces as the assignment marking progresses.

      5. Due date is the cutoff date for assignment submission.

    3. On the Grading Summary page select View all submissions. It can take a minute or two for the next page to load.

    4. On this page, the assignment grading page, all the essay submissions are listed. Ensure the following options on this page are set as follows:

      1. Grading action [Choose]

      2. First name [All]

      3. Surname [All]

      4. Index is initially set to the first index. The number of indices indicated is determined by the number of assignments shown per page set below.

      5. Sort student names First name / Surname by surname. (Alphabetical order starting with ‘A’ is indicated by an up-caret and descending order by a down-caret. Ensure the up-caret is indicated.)

      6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

      7. With selected [Lock submissions]

      8. Options

        1. Assignments per page [10]

        2. Filter [Submitted]

      9. This page also displays students who have submitted assignments. The number of students displayed is set by the Assignments per page option. The Index is used to access the desired grouping of assignment submissions.

    5. By setting the above conditions, everyone is starting on the same page [sic]. This avoids confusion when using the index to access the first name of the marking allocation.

    6. The Teaching Assistant in charge of essay assignment allocation divides the number of Submitted assignments by the number of Teaching Assistants who will be marking. The marking allocation is represented by the first name to the last name in alphabetical order. The beginning name can be identified by the associated index. This can be used to help navigate to the first name. However, the student name drifts inside the index as the number of submitted essays change. This is due to students granted extensions submitting there assignments.

    7. Selecting the Grade option brings up the students essay (minimized by a +) and the marking rubric. Selecting + displays the students assignment. Ensure the Notify students check box is unchecked. 

    8. To hide the grades while in the process of marking, go to Grade Book in Settings (main page of the course top right corner). Go to the assignment you want to hide grades for. See the right option Edit. Change to Hide in the drop down menu of Edit. Do not forget to change to Show once the marking is done.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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