How do I review a submitted assignment?

Assignments are evaluated by reviewers, who can be teachers or students. Curious about how to become a reviewer for a group on a specific assignment? Check it out here: Distribute Assignment.

There are three places where you can find assignments to be reviewed:

• If an assignment is set up for review, the reviewer(s) will receive a notification. Click on the notification to access and review the assignment.
• In the Review module (left navigation menu), where all assignments awaiting your review will appear.
• View the status of all assignments distributed to a group through the Assignments Overview for each group and see which assignments still need to be reviewed.

Review through review module

1. Go to Review. Here you’ll find the list of assignments requiring your action. The following statuses are available:
   1. To Review: This assignment still needs to be reviewed. None of the reviewers have started it yet.
   2. In Progress: This assignment still needs to be reviewed, but one of the reviewers has already opened it for review.
   3. To Respond: The assignment is configured with feedback questions. The student has used this option and submitted a question to the reviewer(s). The reviewer(s) can respond to the question without finalizing the review of the assignment.

Good to know

Is your module full, and are you looking for a specific assignment to review? Use the Filters button to filter by Group, Student, Specific Assignment, or sort by last name under Assigned To. This way, you can tailor the list to your specific needs.

2. To review an assignment, click on the assignment title. The submitted assignment will now open.

   A sidebar appears on the left, displaying the students who have received the assignment through this connection. This allows you to easily view the status of an entire group.

3. Under Submitted Items, you’ll find the portfolio items that have been submitted. Click on them to view. The submitted item will open as a PDF. You can now:
   1. View
   2. Download
   3. View in the portfolio
4. If rubrics are linked to the assignment, the student, depending on the settings, must first reflect on a rubric before the reviewer(s) do so. At the bottom of each criterion, the student’s profile picture indicates the choice the student made. Below the selection fields, there may be a justification provided.
   1. Depending on the setting chosen by the school, the rubrics must be assessed.
      1. Default setting: The rubrics completed by the student must also be completed by the assessor(s). If a student has not completed the rubric, the teacher is not allowed to do so either.
      2. Free assessment setting (admin): The assessor(s) are free to choose which rubrics can be assessed, regardless of the student’s selection.
   2. Use the Reset button to redo your assessment on the rubrics entirely.

Good to know

Want to assess everything at a single level? Click on the badge image to ensure that the rubrics are filled in at the desired criterion.

Good to know

If the assignment contains Optional rubrics and the student has not filled them in himself, you cannot score the rubric as a teacher. If the administrator has turned on Rubrics can be assessed freely, you choose which rubrics you assess, even if the student has not filled them in. With multiple reviewers, each reviewer chooses separately. If you complete the review while not all rubrics are filled in, Simulise asks whether you are sure and shows which rubrics will not be assessed.

5. Inviting Reflection. For each assignment, it can be configured whether inviting users or external participants for reflection is optional or mandatory. Under the Reflections tab, the student can invite both Simulise users and external participants for a reflection. The reflection is always based on the rubrics linked to the assignment.
6. In the feedback field, below the rubrics, feedback can be provided. This feedback becomes visible to the student, who will receive a notification. Feedback can be given in the form of text, audio, and files.

Assign review

When a review is completed, the student will always receive a notification. If a badge is awarded, it will also appear in the student’s Latest Badges overview. In Simulise, we recognize three review options:

• Return Assignment: A submitted assignment can be returned to the student. The assignment will then be available to the student again with the status Resubmit. When an assignment is returned, a new deadline can be set specifically for the student.
• Assign Review: The review provided on the rubrics is finalized and delivered to the student.
  • After Assign Review is clicked, a button labeled Show rubrics judgement appears next to it, allowing you to adjust your review if needed. Badges are automatically generated based on the average result, but if you wish to assign a different badge, you can do so using the slider.
• Complete without Review: If no review is required, Complete without Review can be used.

Once the choice is made, select Finish to send the result to the student.

Good to know

Does the review need to be revised? Read How do I return an assignment or change a review?.

Review from the assignment overview

Read how this works in How do I review from the assignment overview?.

Download submissions

Read how this works in How do I download submissions for an assignment?.

Change a review

Read how this works in How do I return an assignment or change a review?.

Good to know

A submitted page or a completed page template is shown directly in the assignment.

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