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Editing a Student Grade – FlatWorld Homework

Instructors can edit and delete students’ grades in FlatWorld Homework. Here’s how: 1) Login to your FlatWorld instructor account and navigate to the desired course in FlatWorld Homework 2) You may edit a grade at the Assignment level. Select the assignment for which you wish to change a student’s grade. 3) After selecting the assignment, click on the Grades…

Instructors can edit and delete students’ grades in FlatWorld Homework. Here’s how:

  1. Login to your FlatWorld instructor account and navigate to the desired course in FlatWorld Homework

  2. You may edit a grade at the Assignment level. Select the assignment for which you wish to change a student’s grade.

The Assignments tab of a FlatWorld Homework course, with the cursor on an assignment in the list of published and draft assignments.

  1. After selecting the assignment, click on the Grades tab. The Edit Grades option is found in the “Actions” column.

The assignment's Grades tab, showing a student's final score, submission time, and submission count, with Edit and Delete actions on the row.

In this example, this student’s grade is currently 40%, or 2 out of 5 questions were correct.

  1. Clicking Edit for that student will bring up the Edit Grade options. You are able to add or subtract points, write a note on why the grade was changed, and restore the original grade after you have made edits.

The Edit Grade dialog: points changed to 4 out of 5, 'Extra Credit' entered in the required Reason field, and a preview reading 'Final score will change to 80% (4 of 5)'.

In this example, we have updated the student’s grade two points with a reason given of extra credit.

  1. The student’s final score is now 4 out of 5, or 80%. A manually edited grade will be denoted by an asterisk *. You can move your cursor over this asterisk to pull up any notes on the grade change_._

The Grades tab after saving: the final score reads 80% (4 of 5) with an asterisk, and hovering it shows the 'Extra Credit' reason.