Note that this feature is currently being beta tested. Please direct any questions or feedback to beta@zybooks.com!
Goals
Submission review - Provide an efficient experience allowing instructors to quickly review each student’s latest, highest scoring submission on each zyLab.
Manual grading - Allow instructors to add manual scores (or deductions) to lab submissions.
Capabilities & feature tour
Submission review
Functionality is comprised of changes to the zyLab interface including a new ‘Student submissions’ card. Note that the previous ‘Lab statistics and submissions’ card has been renamed to ‘Class statistics’ and you may now only view class and section level data there. Please note that MATLAB zyLabs aren’t supported at this time.
Click ‘Show’ to expand the student submissions card to view a list of all students.
- Filter by class, section, or search for a specific student.
- View student name and signature of their work. Learn more about signatures.
- Table of automated test score results.
- Click to expand and review student submissions.
Click a student to review their submissions.
- View student signature and click on runs and submissions to view them.
- Review student code.
- Download this submission
- View details of automated test results.
- View other student submissions besides the latest / highest scoring.
- Review submissions for the next student in the list.
*Note - all student names have been anonymized in above screenshots.
Manual grading
Two new test types are added to the zyLabs editing experience on the ‘Manual test bench’ card. Both test types allow you to specify a point value and short description of the test. Test names are not editable.
Manual grade test - This is an additive test type. If you’ve set 50 points worth of automated tests and add a manual grade test worth 10 points, students will only be able to achieve 50 of 60 points before you add a manual grade of 0 - 10 points.
Manual deduction test - This test type may only subtract points. If you’ve set 50 points worth of automated tests and manual deduction of maximum -10 points, students may achieve 50 points on the automated tests and you may choose to remove up to 10 points when reviewing their submission.
When reviewing student submissions, add scores and comments for the manual test types you’ve created.
Students can see scores and comments in the zyLab along with results from automated tests and also in their dashboard on the ‘My activity’ tab.
