{"id":8188,"date":"2025-05-13T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:51:31","slug":"inspera-marking-hints-tips-new-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/05\/13\/inspera-marking-hints-tips-new-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspera: Marking Hints\/Tips\u00a0&amp; New Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Marking Hints &amp; Tips&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u202fYou can check out some of our hints and tips for marking Inspera Digital Exams or our dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/marking-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you need to search for a specific student, within the Inspera \u2018Grading Overview\u2019 section, use the search bar &#8211; you can search for a student ID.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To download raw marks from Inspera, as an Excel file. Click the \u2018Options\u2019 button at the top right of the Grade screen and navigate to \u2018Downloads\u2019. Select \u2018<em><strong>Marks and Explanations as Excel file\u2019.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Digital Exams are always set up initially with the Canvas assignment associated with your Inspera exam as out of 100 points.\u00a0\u00a0(If you\u2019d like students to see raw marks, please <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/t5\/Instructor-Guide\/How-do-I-add-or-edit-details-in-an-assignment\/ta-p\/971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">edit the Canvas assignment<\/a> points area to match that of your total Inspera marks).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For manually marked questions, Markers can add <strong>Annotations<\/strong> to student submissions.\u00a0(Within students submitted text, click and hold the left mouse button to select the text you want to annotate. Click Annotate).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once marking is complete in Inspera, don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.inspera.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360033628491-Test-settings-Grading-workflow#h_01G4Z2TVYD1804BR0RQDDXHRQH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Confirm Marks<\/a>, this will complete the grading step and push the completed marks from inspera to Canvas Gradebook.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video demonstrations<\/strong>: There are a range of marking videos available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inspera website<\/a> which provide on-screen demonstrations of grading tasks. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/marking-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Video guides for Markers<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Feedback Release<\/strong>: If you would like to release feedback to your students on your auto or manually marked Inspera questions, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/inspera-feedback-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dedicated feedback release webpage<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further questions<\/strong>? If you have any questions about marking an Inspera exam, please contact the Digital Exams Team via <a href=\"mailto:Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Internal Inspera Teams Community (Digital Exams using Inspera Assessment @ Newcastle)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Digital Exams Team have set up a Newcastle University community via a new Teams group. This new community will:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enable colleagues who use Inspera for their Digital Exams, to ask general questions in a dedicated area&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a space for colleagues to share ideas and best practice and\/or learn from others experience.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build a supportive community network of like-minded colleagues.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enable the Digital Exams Team to share updates about Inspera such as feature developments, improvements and Roadmaps.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can request to join <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/team\/19%3Aff1tZTZmgKHyAwIFltT4JEr78DqBfMnLLB3orSromlM1%40thread.tacv2\/conversations?groupId=d0ef542a-4700-4d38-abdb-a9385fdb603b&amp;tenantId=9c5012c9-b616-44c2-a917-66814fbe3e87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inspera @ Newcastle Teams site.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need support with specific queries relating to your own exam(s), please email <a href=\"mailto:digital.exams@newcastle.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital.exams@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking Hints &amp; Tips&nbsp; \u202fYou can check out some of our hints and tips for marking Inspera Digital Exams or our dedicated website.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Feedback Release: If you would like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/05\/13\/inspera-marking-hints-tips-new-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspera: Marking Hints\/Tips\u00a0&amp; New Community&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}