Assessment

Assess Exercises

After login, you will be redirected to the course view, where you can select a course and view exercises. You can find more information about this view in the following video:

By tapping on an exercise in the course view you can navigate to a new screen where exercise details are shown. From here, you can start a new assessment, or manage ongoing assessments.

Themis supports the assessment of the following exercise types:

General Assessment Elements

The assessment view of Themis contains some elements that are common for all exercise types.

Toolbar

Assessment View Toolbar

Assessment View Toolbar

  1. Cancel Button - allows you to cancel the assessment either by deleting or saving the current state

  2. Exercise Name Label - indicates the name of the exercise that you are currently assessing

  3. Undo Button - allows you to undo the last operation that you have done

  4. Redo Button - allows you to redo the last operation that you have done

  5. Referenced Feedback Mode Button - when enabled, allows you to add referenced (inline) feedback

  6. Font Size Button - allows changing the font size

  7. Score Label - shows the current score of the submission

  8. Save Button - saves the current state of the assessment

  9. Submit Button - submits the assessment

Correction Pane

The correction pane can be dragged from the right to view the problem statement, correction guidelines, and an overview of feedback added to the submission. All three states of the correction pane can be seen below:

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Correction Pane

General feedback can be added with the plus-btn button. This button reveals a sheet where you can type the feedback text, adjust the score, and select a grading criterion:

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Add Feedback Sheet

You can edit feedback by tapping on the edit-btn button on the correction pane.

In order to delete an existing feedback, swipe it to the left on the correction pane as shown below:

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Swipe-To-Delete Action

Assess Exam Exercises

Themis supports the assessment of exam exercises as well. To assess an exam exercise, navigate to the relevant exam from the course view and select the exercise that you want to assess.

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If the second correction round is enabled and all submissions for the first round are assessed, the Start Assessment button changes into Start Assessment (Round 2). In addition, the Open Submissions (Correction Round 2) and Finished Submissions (Correction Round 2) sections appear.

Exercise View in Second Correction Round

Exercise View in Second Correction Round

When performing an assessment in the second round, the assessment view toolbar contains a Round 2 label.

Assessment View in Second Correction Round

Assessment View in Second Correction Round