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How do I download Tests & Quizzes submissions for grading offline?

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You can download assessment responses for grading offline, including bulk downloading submissions to a File Upload question so you can easily access them from a single folder on your computer.

For more information on entering assessment grades and comments, see the following articles:

Go to Tests & Quizzes.

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Select Tests & Quizzes from the site Tool Menu.

Select the Closed (Published) view.

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Select the Closed (Published) option in the View dropdown to view the assessments that have been released to students and closed from accepting further submissions.

Go to the assessment submissions.

Select the Scores option from the dropdown menu for the assessment to grade.

Alternately, select the numeral representing the number of student submissions in the Submitted column to view the submissions.

Export scores and student submissions as an Excel spreadsheet.

You can export an Excel spreadsheet that contains all the student responses and scores for an assessment, as well as any comments you've entered for students on the Total Scores screen.

Select Export.

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On the following screen, click Export.

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Select the second Export button on the screen to export the file.

Depending on your browser settings, you may be asked to save or open the file. Once downloaded, the file can be opened in a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel.

View spreadsheet.

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The resulting spreadsheet lists the students' names, user names, number of the assessment submissions (if multiple submissions were allowed), final scores, any comments entered for students in the Total Scores screen, and the students' responses to each question.

Note: Certain question types, such as File Upload questions and Audio Recording questions, which need to be graded within the Tests & Quizzes screen, will not be able to display answers in the spreadsheet.

Download all File Upload submissions.

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If an assessment has a File Upload question, all of its submissions can be downloaded simultaneously (e.g., to add inline comments, or for ease of reading certain types of files from your computer).

Select the Questions link in the assessment menu to access the list of questions.

Select the File Upload question.

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From the list of question numbers, select the File Upload question. Each question is listed as the letter Q with the question number (e.g., Q1, Q2).

Select Download Responses.

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Save and open the ZIP file.

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  1. Based on your internet browser settings, you may be prompted to save the file. Save it to your local disk.
  2. Unzip the resulting zip file. You can see all the students' submissions in one folder. Each submission will be labeled with the student's name, followed by an underscore, the student's user name, another underscore, and the file name.
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