How to grade exams with Work to Grade?

1. Make your exam such that the questions can be answered in 1-20 lines of text, an equation, or a drawing.
2. Register this exam with Work to Grade and download the answer form templates (LaTeX and Microsoft Word)
3. Tailor the form (max. 20 pages) so that for each exam question it has an answer field of adequate size.
4. Save the answer form as PDF and upload it to Work to Grade.
   • to rule out the possibility of any unauthorized person gaining a priori knowledge of this exam, you can mask content-specific text and figures (if any), as long as the answer fields retain their dimensions
5. Verify that Work to Grade has correctly located the answer fields.
   • For each question, you can specify its grading scale (max. points) and its relative weight in the final score
   • For each question, you can specify grading guidelines to facilitate uniform grading
6. Make sufficient hardcopies of the answer form.
   • print (rather than photocopy) to preserve the light gray print of the optical mark boxes
   • two-sided printing saves paper, but may slow down scanning later in the process
   • to facilitate scanning, do not staple pages together
   • instead, to facilitate handing out and taking in answer forms, you may want to use a folded A3 cover sheet
7. Give your exam.
   • students need optically mark their student number only on the first page of the answer form
   • to ensure identification, students should write their name on every form page
   • although Work to Grade allows viewing entire pages while grading, students should be discouraged to write outside the designated areas
8. Upload a list of participants in the exam (student number and name) onto Work to Grade.
9. Use a photocopier to scan your students' exam work into PDF documents.
   • scan directly to scan@work2grade.com, or manually upload the scans onto the Work to Grade web site
   • Work to Grade will optically recognize each individual student's exam work
   • additional pages can be added and identified manually (e.g., to correct processing errors)
10. Grade the work.
    • you can permit colleagues and/or teaching assistants to grade
    • graders can work simultaneously, from wherever they have internet access
    • graders mark questions one by one, seeing only the participants' answers to that particular question
    • while marking, question-specific grading guidelines are in view
    • at any time, you can review marked work, and alter scores if needed
11. View the results, and (optionally) tweak them by changing the relative weights of questions.
12. Click the Publish button to allow students to view their graded work via myexamwork.com.