Exercise flagging

When a problem occurs when marking an exercise and the marker is unable to resolve it, the exercise can be flagged. Exercise flagging allows a marker to flag the exercise as having a technical problem or an academic / peer review problem. A description of the problem can be entered in a problem field and the problem flagged.

Exercises that have been flagged then appear on the assessment landing page as separate links for easy access. When a flag is set, it is set for the current page only, covering a single student’s marks for an exercise.

To flag an exercise, click the Flag a problem button on the marking sidebar. When the flag a problem button is clicked, the question submission disappears and is replaced with the flag a problem interface.

On the flag a problem interface, the type of problem can be selected along with a description of the problem. The flag can be cancelled by clicking the cancel button, which will return to the regular marking sidebar. To confirm the flag, click the flag a problem button.

Once a flag has been confirmed, marking cannot be completed for the exercise, and final marks cannot be awarded until it has been removed. The marking sidebar interface will display the flagged exercise interface, until the flag is removed. The flag can be removed by clicking the blue remove flag, or the description updated by changing the text and clicking the update description button.

Once flagged the exercise tab navigation will change to red to indicate that the exercise requires attention before submission can be completed.

On the assessment landing page, the flagged exercise appears underneath the reason for the flag. Clicking the student username link will display the marking page for the student and the flagged exercise interface in the sidebar. The exercise will also be marked as flagged on the final mark page, and final mark submission will be disabled until the flag is resolved.

Flagging makes problems easier to find than sending links and usernames through email. Removing the flag from the exercise will make the normal sidebar interface appear and remove the exercise from the assessment landing page.

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