🎯Grade Ranges and Partial Points Are Coming to TimelyGrader!

We’re excited to announce two of our most requested grading enhancements: grade ranges and partial points are on their way to TimelyGrader.

Because sometimes students scores just in the middle of two ratings. Since grading itself is subjective and the instructor is the only one that know the nuances between an excellent and very good rating, they ultimately should make the final decision.

With grade ranges as another option on our rubric creator, instructors can define a range for each rating within a criterion. For example:

• “Excellent” = 9–10 points

• “Good” = 6–8 points

• “Needs Work” = 0–5 points

The structure will still follow our current convention except that grade ranges allow instructors to input a maximum and a minimum.

This gives you the freedom to acknowledge the nuance in student performance, especially on more subjective assignments where human insights is needed.

TimelyGrader will attempt to give a grade suggestion but it is still up to the instructor to accept the suggestion or assignment a different value for that criterion.

In the screenshot below, TG suggested 12 but the instructor put in 7 to override the suggestion.

Also…partial points

We know that not every assignment fits neatly into whole-number scoring and a lot of instructors uses half marks such as 1.5 or 0.5.

Instructors can now assign partial points, like 8.5 out of 10, directly within the rubric. No more choosing between a 7 or a 9 when the real answer is somewhere in between

UI refresh is here!

An update that just landed is our front end UI refresh to make text on TimelyGrader even more readable. Can you spot the difference?

That’s it for our newsletter today! Scoring on a rubric just got a lot more nuanced 🎨