Install the TurboGrading Chrome extension, sign in to your TurboGrading account, and open a supported assignment or written-response exam grading page in D2L Brightspace or Blackboard Ultra. Check your grading instructions and preferences before starting.
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TurboGrading supports assignment submissions and written-response exam questions. It generates suggested marks and feedback using the submission and your grading guidance. The exam workflow focuses on written answers; multiple-choice questions are excluded from AI grading.
Assignment submissions can include PDF, Word (.doc and .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt and .pptx), Excel (.xlsx), CSV and TSV, PNG and JPEG images, Power BI (.pbix), supported text and code files, and ZIP bundles of documents and code. Exam attachments support a smaller set of formats. Available formats and upload limits depend on the grading workflow.
Yes. Bring your requirements, rubric, model solutions, and reference materials to guide the evaluation. Save grading and feedback instructions for exams, or requirements, rubric guidance, and additional instructions for assignments. Supported Brightspace assignment rubrics can receive scores and feedback for individual criteria with assessable evidence.
Save reference files and instructions once for an assessment, then reuse them when grading its submissions. The website and extension share the same assessment reference library when you sign in with the same account. Organize requirements, rubrics, model solutions, and other materials; replace a file to create a new version, or archive it to leave it out of future grading. New grading requests use the current active versions for that assessment.
Yes. Supported online exam attachments include PDF, DOCX, Power BI (.pbix), PNG and JPEG images, and supported text and code files. Brightspace can include selected student attachments with their corresponding questions, including image-only answers, as well as supported images in the question itself. Visual exam content in Blackboard requires instructor review. Formats and upload limits depend on the workflow; the broader assignment file list does not apply to every exam.
Yes. Review the results in your LMS, edit the feedback, and change suggested marks to reflect your judgment. Use draft or manual saving preferences when you want to review results before sharing them with students.
Brightspace exam settings provide separate controls for per-question feedback and overall feedback. Blackboard combines question explanations in Overall Feedback. Choose the options available in your workflow, then review and refine the comments in your LMS. Assignment workflows use overall feedback, with criterion-level feedback available for supported Brightspace rubrics.
This depends on your preferences and LMS. Brightspace supports automatic draft saving or publishing, or leaving results open for review. Blackboard can save overall feedback; review and post grades using Blackboard's controls. Keep automatic publishing off if you want to review each result before sharing it.
Some work needs additional evidence, such as a report PDF or screenshots for Power BI visuals. Supported Brightspace rubric grading can return a labeled provisional grade based on assessable criteria, with other criteria identified as excluded. Provisional results require your review and are not published automatically. Otherwise, grading may stop and explain what needs instructor review.
The Grading dashboard organizes recorded results by institution, semester, course, and assessment. Revisit assignment evaluations and exam attempts, including saved grades, feedback, and grading context. This gives you a place to find past work across your courses. Records show the saved evaluation; later edits in your LMS are not automatically reflected.
Yes. Choose Store, Do not store, or Encrypt in Student name privacy. Store keeps names readable in your records; Do not store removes existing saved names after confirmation and discards incoming names; Encrypt protects saved names and lets you temporarily unlock them with your chosen PIN or account password. These controls apply to dedicated saved name fields. They do not anonymize student identifiers, submissions, filenames, or feedback.
The Plans page lists current packages and their grading allowances. Your dashboard shows your available credits and usage so you can check your account before starting more grading.
TurboGrading and its service providers process submitted assessment content and instructor inputs to generate grading suggestions. Review the Privacy Policy for details about data handling, and contact us with questions about your institution's requirements.
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