Online Grading is a feature that many have described as:
- a game-changer!
- a relationship-saver!
- a stress-reducer!
- the thing that keeps math moving forward in our home!
Not only is it an amazing feature for the parent/teacher, it is an educational tool your student can use to reduce mistakes, increase learning and gain independence.
Online Grading does NOT, however, remove the parent/teacher from the student’s learning process. Instead, it was designed to be used by the parent/teacher to help better understand a student’s trouble spots and to guide when/where a student needs extra attention.
Here’s a basic outline of how it works:
- As always, students will use their textbook to access each lesson’s problems and will work them out on paper/in the book. (The problems do not appear on the screen.)
- As the student solves each problem, they check their answer in our system for accuracy and make corrections as necessary.
- When they have completed the assignment, they submit it for grading and the parent/teacher receives an immediate email with an overview of the student’s results on the assignment.
Here’s a more detailed example of the student using Online Grading:
- The student logs into their Student Account.
- The student solves the first problem of the assignment on paper.
- The student checks their answer in our system by typing it into an empty field.
- The system provides immediate feedback of “correct” or “incorrect.”
- If the answer was correct, the student celebrates and moves on to the next problem.
- If the answer was incorrect, the student can rework the problem to find/fix any mistakes and enter a new answer.
- A link to the lesson where that problem’s concept was originally taught is easily accessible and can be used to review the concept as needed.
- When the student has completed all of the problems and checked all of their answers, they click “submit for grading.”
- The parent/teacher immediately receives an email showing which assignment was completed, how many answers were correct, which answers took multiple attempts, which answers were incorrect and more.
And here’s how the parent/teacher can utilize Online Grading:
- The parent/teacher wastes no time on grading the assignment; that part is done!
- The parent/teacher follows up with the student on trouble spots as needed.
- Detailed reports can be found inside the Parent/Teacher Account at anytime.
- The parent/teacher has the ability to award points after the fact and can also reset the assignment for the student to redo.
- NTML does not assign a grade for the assignment or course, but the parent/teacher can easily utilize the data we provide to assign a grade.