Allow staff to remove early submission bonus when grading assessments

[chownces]

There are occasional 'low effort' submissions from students to gain the early submission bonus XP. This is more prevalent amongst 'optional' assessments within the course (such as Quests in CS1101S). Staff should be able to remove the early submission bonus where deemed fit.

[martin-henz]

Staff should be able to remove the early submission bonus where deemed fit.

Yes. In addition, we could automatically remove the bonus, if there are 0 marks for the assessment. That would mean: no need for staff to remember to remove the early submission bonus. To keep things simple, we would just leave the early submission bonus as soon as the marks are non-zero.

Staff would need to be aware of this: with non-zero marks, they enable the early submission bonus.

Any views @Sanka-R @boydanderson ?

[emptygx]

Proposed Changes:

• Allow staff to view any bonus XP awarded in the grading submissions table
• Provided the ability to enable and disable this bonus XP where deemed fit
  • Can be achieved with a switch
• Maintain the default of early submission bonus to be enabled i.e. no action required unless staff wishes to manually disable the bonus for any reason

Possible UI Design:

[RichDom2185]

• Allow staff to view any bonus XP awarded in the grading workspace

I agree with this, but your image shows the grading submissions table, not the grading workspace, so I'm not sure which one exactly you're referring to.

Whether or not to award the early submission bonus XP comes from the judgment of the staff after having gone through the submission itself (whether it's "low-effort", etc.). So in my view, it does not make sense that there is a toggle to award/not award the bonus XP in the submissions table, where the staff has not looked through the submissions yet.

It should be in the grading workspace, together with where a staff would award XP for all the submissions' answers.

• Provided the ability to enable and disable this bonus XP where deemed fit

  • Can be achieved with a switch

• Maintain the default of early submission bonus to be enabled i.e. no action required unless staff wishes to manually disable the bonus for any reason

Instead of a switch, why not as discussed the other time, something like the following (already exists in grading workspace at the moment):

My counter-proposal:

• Something like a combination of the two above → (input field) / (max bonus XP), where the max bonus XP is set by the submission time (the existing behaviour), and the default value of the input field is also equal to the max bonus XP
• That way, staff will have more granular control of the bonus XP awarded, instead of just 0 or max (e.g. maybe they want to award the bonus XP for attempting and submitting half of the questions early)

What do you think?

[emptygx]

I agree with this, but your image shows the grading submissions table, not the grading workspace, so I'm not sure which one exactly you're referring to.

Oh yes, I was referring to the grading submissions table sorry, edited the original comment.

My counter-proposal:

• Something like a combination of the two above → (input field) / (max bonus XP), where the max bonus XP is set by the submission time (the existing behaviour), and the default value of the input field is also equal to the max bonus XP
• That way, staff will have more granular control of the bonus XP awarded, instead of just 0 or max (e.g. maybe they want to award the bonus XP for attempting and submitting half of the questions early)

What do you think?

Thanks for the suggestions, I do think there is merit in this solution as well. However, my concern is that granular control could result in more confusion for the graders and inconsistencies in grading, like how would one decide how much bonus XP a student should get exactly based on differing amounts of effort? It may also add one more level of grading work to the job of a grader in deciding this amount. Perhaps it should be simpler in that there either is a bonus or there isn't, might be easier for the students to understand their grades too.

Whether or not to award the early submission bonus XP comes from the judgment of the staff after having gone through the submission itself (whether it's "low-effort", etc.). So in my view, it does not make sense that there is a toggle to award/not award the bonus XP in the submissions table, where the staff has not looked through the submissions yet.

It should be in the grading workspace, together with where a staff would award XP for all the submissions' answers.

I do think it is a possibility to have it in the workspace, but the early submission is not a per-question basis bonus so would it be on the last question after all questions have been looked at? I feel that having it in the submissions table makes more sense to me as it is a per-submission basis bonus and can be toggled on/off for the whole submission there easily.

My proposal to ensure staff has looked through the submissions already would then be:

• grey out/disable/not show the switch until the submission has been fully graded.

Would this be feasible?