Grading in Inspera Assessment - for employees and graders
This page includes information and resources for how to digitally grade in Inspera Assessment
Norsk versjon - Sensurere i Inspera Assessment - for ansatte og sensorer
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If you are unable to log in, please see this guide.
Prior to the exam
Before grading can start there are several settings that need to be in place. These are managed through dialogue between the course coordinator and the administrative staff. As an external grader at NTNU you may have to provide the information needed to gain access to grading in Inspera Assessment. See information below.
Preparing grading – Dialogue between course coordinator and administrative staff
Before the grading can start, the course coordinator and administrative staff must agree upon the grading workflow. As well as make sure that all graders are registered correctly.
Access to grading in Inspera Assessment for NTNU employees
All academic staff at NTNU should automatically get access to Inspera as a grader. Please note that before you may start grading:
- You must be assigned as a grader in the course by the course coordinator and administrative staff. If you are new to Inspera, you may be unable to login until you have been assigned as a grader, as this informs the system that you need access.
- The exam must be “ready for grading” in Inspera. This means that the deadline for submitting the exam has passed. You will not be able to view answers before this deadline.
If you are unable to find answers in Inspera this often casued by (1) that the submission deadline is yet to expire or (2) that some administrative work needs to be done to prepare grading. In that case, contact the administrative staff in charge of exam administration at your department.
For access to Inspera’s authoring tool for question sets, see this user guide for access to Inspera.
See the page: Sensurprosessen i Inspera Assessment - for administrativt ansatte to learn more about the necessary setup for grading. This article is aimed at administrative staff, and it is unfortunately only available in Norwegian.
Access to grading in Inspera Assessment as an external grader
For access to Inspera as an external grader, the following must be in place:
- You are assigned as a grader at the faculty responsible for the course.
- You have access to NTNU’s IT-systems through NTNU’s access arrangement. This will be done the first time you are a grader, or potentially again if there has been a long time since the last time you were a grader. To get access you must:
- Fill out and submit the access agreement you are sent, digitally.
- You must have access to ID-porten. If you do not have access to, or do not wisht to use ID-porten you may log in through FEIDE by using a NTNU user account. Information about how to activate your NTNU user account, may be found by following this link. (Need information about FEIDE? follow this link) Graders without a Norwegian ID-number are obligated to activate their user account.
- Be assigned as a grader to an exam which will be graded in Inspera. This is done by the administrative staff at the deapartment you are grading for. Inspera will send you an automatically generated email when the test is ready for grading. If you do not receive this email, you might be registered with an outdated email address. If so, please contact the department.
- The exam must be “ready for grading” in Inspera. This means that the deadline for submitting the exam has passed. You will not be able to view answers before this deadline.
If you are unable to find answers in Inspera this often cause by (1) that the deadline is yet to expire or (2) that some administrative work needs to be done to prepare grading. In that case, contact the administrative staff in charge of exam administration at your department.
Additional information about grading at NTNU
The following information may be relevant for your assignment as a grader. You may also receive supplementary information from the department you are grading for.
- A guide to all courses with a course description is found when following this link.
- Explanation of the grading system is found when following this link.
- The percentage points model is a guideline grading scale, primarily in use for grading technology courses. Find information about the percentage points model when following this link.
- A guide for grading, or proposed solution, should be made available for the grader before the grading starts. As well as be made available to the students. If you have not received such resources, you should contact the department in charge of the exam.
The Grading Workflow in Inspera
1. Login in to Inspera
Login with ID-porten or your NTNU user account with FEIDE, by following the link below.
See this user guide if you are unable to login.
Video: The video shows how to log in to Inspera as a grader. The video is in Norwegian, however English closed captions are available
2. Assessing the submissions - Including tips for using Inspera’s native assessment tool.
See Inspera’s user documentation for grading candidates. See also Inspera’s video on how to mark candidates. The following articles may also be relevant for your grading:
- Grade oral exams (link).
- Commenting submissions and adding general comments to the exam (link).
- Overriding automatic scores (link).
- Change threshold values (link).
- How to download submissions, for instance, for printing (link).
- Sketches / scanned hand drawings for graders (link).
- Downloading points per exercise/candidate may be done in two ways:
- Follow this link for information about how the administrative employee can download the grades as a CSV file. Please notet hat the file contains one row for each candidate, for each exercise. Multiple graders will lead to multiple rows for each candidate based on the graders. Automatic and manual awarded points are found in two separate columns.
- The grader may also copy the points they have awarded directly from Inspera. Follow this link to the user guide for information about how to assess students using the portfolio assessment method.
There are unfortunately no current way of changing the weighting for questions in Inspera during grading. Mistakes in the alternatives for multiple choice excercises must unfortunately be manually corrected for each student. Follow this link to the user guide for how to override automatically awarded points in Inspera. Inspera is working on improving these aspects as a part of the new grading tool.
3. Confirm your grades
See the user documentation for confirming your grades by following this link. Other graders will not see the grades you have awarded until you have confirmed your grades.
If the grading is a collaboration between graders, the confirmation of your own grades is not used. This is referred to as “shared assessment”, and may be used when one grader has assessed exercise 1-3, while another grader assessed exercise 4-6. The graders can observe, and change points awarded and final assessment on all exercises, which makes the distribution of grades to the different exercises important.
If you are a part of multiple commissions, the exam may be set up so that you may either (1) approve every commission separately, or (2) approve all commissions you are connected to together.
4. Complete final grades
Follow this link for documentation for how to complete final grades.
Depending on the set up of the exam, either one or all the graders must complete the final grades.
5. Announcing grades to the students
After the graders have completed the final grades, the administrative staff will transfer the grades to NTNU’s student administration system. This also triggers the publication of grades to the students in Studentweb (see this link if you are interested in the workings of Studentweb). Thus, the grades will not be published when you approve the grades, but when the administration transfer them.
Additional relevant information regarding grading.
Plagiarism control
Inspera uses Urkund to conduct plagiarism control. See the user guide on how to use Urkund in Inspera in this link.
See also the information about cheating on exams at NTNU by following this link. What is regarded as cheating will depend on, among other, which expectations for reusing and citing other works the exam has. Different degrees of similarity between texts with other sources/documents must therefore be assessed individually in each occurrence.
Registering grades in Inspera - without submission in Inspera (written exam on paper, oral exam, portfolio assessment etc.)
Registering grades digitally in Inspera replaces the grading protocol and assessment sheets on paper. Inspera may be used to register final grades, as well as parts of final grades, where the exam itself is not conducted in Inspera. Examples of situations where digital registration of grades can be used are: an oral or practical exam, a written exam on paper, or a final grade in a portfolio assessment.
Video: The video shows how to register grades digitally in Inspera. The video is in Norwegian, however English closed captions are available
User guides for registration of grades digitally in Inspera are found here:
- General guide for registration of grades in Inspera (link) - We expect this type of assessment to be heavily used in spring 2020.
- Registering graded in portfolio assessment (link) - guide on how to combine assessment (points) from multiple assessments in Inspera.
- Registering grades in oral exams (link) - This type of assessment is rarely used at NTNU.
Explanation of grades and appeals on final grades in Inspera
On this page you will find information about handling explanations of gradees and appeals. While marking, you may write (private) comments in the grading tool. These may help you if you are to give the candidates an explanation of their grade. See the user documentation for Commenting submissions.
Compensation for grading assignments
Please contact the department responsible for the grading assignment for how (and if) you are to receive compensation for the work.
Help and support
- Problems logging in: Orakeltjenesten 73 59 15 00 / digitaleksamen@sa.ntnu.no
- Academic inquiries about the course and the exam: The department responsible for the exam
- Administrative inquiries about the exam, including candidates and the grading: The department responsible for the exam
- This user guide and use of Inspera: please contact the exam office at digitaleksamen@sa.ntnu.no