The marking process

Once some of your papers have been scanned and uploaded, you can get your marking team to start working.

Tip

You do not need to wait until all papers are processed before starting.

Ready to mark

Your markers will all need to download the client: Getting started with the Plom Client.

They can then begin the process of annotating papers, leaving useful feedback and assigning marks (grades). It is by far the most important part of the assessment, and will consume the vast majority of your available person-time. Individual markers can be assigned to a specific version of a specific question.

Marking party!

Some people recommend that you and your term work at least initially in the same physical location. Of course, you can use Plom to do your marking just about anywhere, but it has been observed that marking goes much faster and is more consistent when you are all in the same location. Once your marking scheme has been exposed to real student responses and your team has worked out the kinks, physical proximity is less important.

Tracking progress

You can use manager accounts to keep an eye on progress on this whole process.

If you are using the older legacy server, see Managing a legacy Plom server.

Assigning tasks to particular users

This is done by tagging the task for someone. Find the task under “Progress” -> “Task overview” and “Flag to user”.

Reverting annotations

Find the task described above, and click “reset”.

Reassigning tasks to other users

Occasionally you might need to check over the marking of one of your users. You can do this under the “Progress” part of the UI, where you can search based on user name, or other criteria. You can sort the results by score, marking time, when the marking was done, etc.

To reassign a task, click on “Details” then “Flag to user”, finally “reset”.

Caution

The new user will unfortunately not be able to see the previous annotations. Reassigning tasks is work-in-progress.