How can open-ended questions be graded?

There are two ways in which open-ended questions can be graded on Quizizz: 

1. You can manually grade them with the help of flexible grading, or
2. You can save time and use Quizizz AI to automate the grading process

Manually grade open-ended questions

You can flexibly grade higher-order thinking responses for all open-ended question types on Quizizz. By assigning a score manually, you can evaluate open-ended answers and provide a scaled grade that best matches students' answers. Grading on a scale allows for evaluating answers to comprehension, opinion-based, and discussion-oriented questions; you can accurately assess students' understanding of qualitative topics and concepts.

Read more about flexible grading here: Flexible Grading on Quizizz

To enable flexible grading for open-ended questions, follow these steps:

1. Create or edit a resource (Assessment/Quiz, Lesson, Interactive video, or Passage)
2. Create an open-ended question or click on an existing open-ended question to open the question editor page
3. Set your required points while you are creating or editing an open-ended question
   • The range is ungraded (0 points) to maximum (20 points) points for all question types 
     
     
     
     
4. Once you finish creating your resource, save and assign it as a live session or as homework
5. Access post-game reports once your students have completed the session from the 'Reports' tab
6. Click on the 'Question' tab and click on 'Evaluate' on the right
   
   
   
7. As a student has already participated in the session, you can manually grade with a customized score by editing a score. The maximum points to select from the reports will be the same as the points that were set while creating the resource.
   
   
   
   
8. Once you manually grade all questions with customized scores, click on the 'Overview' tab to check for questions with asterisks. These are the questions that have been manually graded
   
   
   
9. All manually graded customized scores are automatically updated on your preferred LMS. There is no need for you to redo this on the LMS reports

Reports on Longitudinal Graphs will also reflect the manually graded sessions for student performance within class reports. 

Automate grading open-ended questions with Quizizz AI

You can use Quizizz AI to automate grading open-ended questions. All you need to do is set the subject and grade for the question and add an evaluation criterion, and your AI-powered grading assistant will evaluate student responses based on your input!

Learn more here: Auto-Evaluate Open-Ended & Audio Responses with AI