Quick Eval

Quick Eval is a Brightspace tool that allows instructors to hop to any assessments with new submissions for grading across their courses from the Brightspace homepage. It is a convenient way of knowing what assessments require attention, and acting upon that information.

Locating Quick Eval

Quick Eval is a tool located on an instructor’s Brightspace homepage (accessible by clicking the Brock logo in the top-left of Brightspace). It can be found in two places:

Navbar

Quick Eval can be found via the navbar on the Brightspace homepage.

Widget

Quick Eval is also a widget on an instructor’s Brightspace homepage. It can be found below the My Courses widget. Clicking on the Quick Eval title or “View all activities” on the widget will open the Quick Eval tool fully.

View By/Filtering

The Quick Eval tool has a default view of sorting submissions by submission date (least recent → most recent), it also offers the option to view by Activities, allowing instructors to search for new submissions from a particular assessment.

Instructors are given the ability to filter by Activity Name (Assessment Name), Course, and Date should they be looking for particular submissions.

Grading Through Quick Eval

While it offers a convenient means of accessing new submissions across courses, Quick Eval does come with a drawback.

Upon clicking on a submission, instructors are brought to that assessment’s grading area. The grading area will change to reflect whether the assessment is assignment-based or quiz-based. Unfortunately, instructors do not have the ability to quickly switch between multiple student submissions the way they would when normally grading submissions directly from the assessment. Instead, instructors must save a draft of their grading or publish it, and then select “Back to Quick Eval” before choosing another submission.

This process is tedious, and may be reason alone for some instructors to continue to grade using normal means.