Electronic+Paper+Grading

One way of ** Electronic Paper Grading ** is to use the Assignment Activity module in ** Moodle **. The [|assignment activity]module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips.* Assignments don't necessarily have to consist of file uploads. Alternatively, teachers can ask students to type directly into Moodle using an online text assignment.
 * Submitted files can be up to 128 MB.

If you are not asking your students to submit their assignments electronically through Moodle, there is another simple way to do ** Electronic Paper Grading ** using the ** ePals email system. ** Students can attach files to an email and send them to their teachers' email address. The teacher can then download students' documents* from email, add comments or revisions, and email the document back to the student for their review.
 * NeoOffice, Pages, Keynote documents up to 1 MB.

//** Steps for Electronic Paper Grading using the ePals Email System **// 1. Have student export their file to a .pdf (see directions below) 2. Have student attach the .pdf file to an email and send it to you 3. Save email attachment to your macbook. 4. Open the .pdf file with Preview 5. In Preview, click on Tools 6. Using the Markup tool, you can Highlight, Strike Through, and Underline text. (You must highlight text first to use this tool) 7. Using the Annotate tool, you can Add Oval, Add Rectangle, Add Note, and Add Link to the text.

//** Student Directions for saving a file to .pdf format ** ** before emailing it **// 1. Open the document you want to convert to PDF in the MacBook application. 2. Choose File > Save As OR File > Export to 3. Choose PDF file format 4. Name the file and then click Save. // OR // To create a PDF file using the PDF creation feature in Mac OS X: 1. Open the document you want to convert to PDF in the MacBook application. 2. Choose File > Print. 3. Click PDF and then Save As PDF. 4. Name the file and then click Save.


 * Example of paper graded online with Preview tools (Firefox or Safari browser must be set up to open .pdf files with Preview for this example to show correctly).**