Marking Hints & Tips
You can check out some of our hints and tips for marking Inspera Digital Exams or our dedicated website.
- To access your exam(s) to mark, click the link within the assignment point in Canvas. You must be a teacher or teaching assistant on the Canvas module, and this will attach you to the exam in Inspera.
- If you need to search for a specific student, within the Inspera ‘Grading Overview’ section, use the search bar – you can search for a student ID.
- To download raw marks from Inspera, as an Excel file. Click the ‘Options’ button at the top right of the Grade screen and navigate to ‘Downloads’. Select ‘Marks and Explanations as Excel file’.
- Digital Exams are always set up initially with the Canvas assignment associated with your Inspera exam as out of 100 points. (If you’d like students to see raw marks, please edit the Canvas assignment points area to match that of your total Inspera marks).
- For manually marked questions, Markers can add Annotations to student submissions. (Within students submitted text, click and hold the left mouse button to select the text you want to annotate. Click Annotate).
- Once marking is complete in Inspera, don’t forget to Confirm Marks, this will complete the grading step and push the completed marks from inspera to Canvas Gradebook.
Video demonstrations: There are a range of marking videos available on the Inspera website which provide on-screen demonstrations of grading tasks. See Video guides for Markers.
Feedback Release: If you would like to release feedback to your students on your auto or manually marked Inspera questions, check out our dedicated feedback release webpage.
Further questions? If you have any questions about marking an Inspera exam, please contact the Digital Exams Team via Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk
Internal Inspera Teams Community (Digital Exams using Inspera Assessment @ Newcastle)
The Digital Exams Team have set up a Newcastle University community via a new Teams group. This new community will:
- Enable colleagues who use Inspera for their Digital Exams, to ask general questions in a dedicated area
- Create a space for colleagues to share ideas and best practice and/or learn from others experience.
- Build a supportive community network of like-minded colleagues.
- Enable the Digital Exams Team to share updates about Inspera such as feature developments, improvements and Roadmaps.
The Digital Exams Team will monitor this community to ensure members are on track for enhancing their Inspera digital exam and provide support queries relevant across all disciplines.
You can request to join Inspera @ Newcastle Teams site.
If you need support with specific queries relating to your own exam(s), please email digital.exams@newcastle.ac.uk.