After

Introduction

Once your students are done answering the activity, their answer sheets still have to reach GradeChum. After you scan them, GradeChum reads and checks every paper, asks you to review a share of them, and waits for you to release the results.

In this article, let's explore what to do with your students' answer sheets after the activity, how to follow each activity on your Activities tab until its results are out, and how to share the results with your students.

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Steps

Follow these steps to know what to do after the activity:

1. Open your class. On the Activities tab, the activity's card reads Awaiting paper answers until its first answer sheets are scanned.

2. Scan all the answer sheets, either on a GradeChum-provided scanner if your school has one, or with GradeChum Scanner on your phone (see GradeChum Mobile Scanner). On a scanner, load about 50 papers at a time and pile them up neatly so each paper is read correctly.

3. Once the papers are uploaded, the card reads Grading in progress while GradeChum reads and checks your students' answers, which takes a few minutes. Scanned papers on the card shows how many papers have arrived so far.

4. When checking is done, the card reads Ready for review. It now shows the Avg. overall score of the class, and Unresolved issues: a red number is how many papers need your attention, such as a missing page or a paper not matched to a student (see Pages missing).

5. Click the card to open the activity and check your students' results: their score, the answer key and the scanned answer for every item (see View students' answers). GradeChum asks you to open a share of the graded papers before you can release. Once you have, the card reads Ready for release.

6. Click Release results in the activity, choose whether your students may request a regrade, and pick what they see. The card then reads Results released. See Edit students' grades for the review and the release, step by step.

7. To show your students where to find their results, open the released activity and click Share results beside the release date.

8. The Results Sharing Options modal shows two ways. Under Student accounts, click Copy code under Class code: and give the code to your students, so they join your class and view their results in GradeChum (see Invite students to class).

9. Finally, under QR result sheets, click Download QR result sheets to get a printable file for the class. Print it and hand each student their sheet: they scan the QR code with their phone and see their results right away, without an account.

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What the activity status means

The badge on a paper activity's card tells you what the activity needs next:

• Awaiting paper answers: no answer sheets have been scanned for this activity yet. Scan them to start grading.
• Grading in progress: scanned papers are still being read and checked. This takes a few minutes, and Scanned papers counts them as they arrive.
• Ready for review: grading is done, and you must review a share of the papers before you can release the results.
• Ready for release: you have reviewed enough papers. Open the activity and click Release results.
• Results released: your students can see the results you released.
• Regrading: GradeChum is checking answers again, for example after you changed the answer key or a rubric. The new scores appear when it finishes.

The average score reads N/A until at least one paper is graded. Unresolved issues turns green at 0. On a smaller screen, the numbers read Scanned, Avg. score and Issues.

An online activity's badge follows its schedule instead: Not started, In progress, Completed once it closes, then Results released. Its card counts down to when the activity opens or closes, and shows its open and due dates and its Time limit:. An activity from outside GradeChum has no badge and shows only its average score.

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What else an activity card shows

• Activity Code: on a paper activity, the code printed on its answer sheets. In a mock board class, it shows once the activity has sets.
• The date the activity was created, and the date it was last updated if you edited it on a later day.
• New! right after you create the activity, and DEMO mode on a demo activity.
• A sets badge when the activity has more than one set. See Create sets.
• Password needed and One question at a time on an online activity that uses them. On a card that needs a password, reveal, hide or Copy the password. See Online activities.
• Linked to and a number of classes when the activity is used in more than one class. Hover the badge, or click it on a phone, to see the classes. See Linked classes.

More activities load as you scroll down the list. If your class is linked to a course with learning outcomes, an outcomes sidebar shows beside the list, or an Outcomes tab on a phone. See View learning outcomes.

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The activity actions menu

Click the three-dot button on an activity's card to open Activity Actions. What it holds depends on the activity type:

a. Paper activity

• Manage sets: add or remove the activity's sets. An older activity with sets made as separate activities shows Create Set instead. See Create sets.
• Download answer sheet & questionnaire: see Before.
• View activity reviewer: see Release Activity Reviewer.
• Discuss with students: see Discuss with students.
• Export results: see Export grades.
• Edit and Delete.

b. Online activity

• Reschedule/Set retakers, Copy link and Try answering: see Online activities. Copy link confirms with "Link copied to clipboard." If it shows "Unable to copy link. Please try again.", click it again.
• View activity reviewer, Discuss with students and Export results, as for a paper activity.
• Edit and Delete.

c. Activity from outside GradeChum

• Export results, Edit and Delete. See Activities from outside GradeChum.

Some actions show only when they apply:

• View activity reviewer shows once you have released the activity's reviewer and the class has at least 3 students.
• Discuss with students shows once the activity's item analysis is ready.
• If your account has no school license and the activity is locked, or it is past the papers you can see for free, Edit, Export results and Discuss with students show a yellow lock and are disabled. Hover one to see why. Export results is also locked until you verify your phone number. See Activity credits and school licenses.
• Export results in a class with no students asks you to import your class record first: "Import your class record to proceed with exporting."
• In a class another teacher shared with you as view-only, the menu has no Edit, Delete, Manage sets, Create Set, Download answer sheet & questionnaire or Reschedule/Set retakers.

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Delete an activity

1. Click the three-dot button on the activity's card, then click Delete. The Delete? modal asks "Are you sure you want to delete this activity?". Click Delete again, or Back to keep it.

2. Finally, GradeChum confirms with Success. Click Finish.

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If your Activities tab looks different

• Hi there! Create your first activity for your students means the class has no activities yet. Click Create activity > Create new or Reuse old activity. See Create activity. Once the class has an activity, Create activity moves to the top of the page, or a round + button on a phone.
• No activities in this class yet shows in a class another teacher shared with you as view-only. You cannot create activities there.
• "Activity set created successfully! Take a moment to review the answer sheets." shows after you create an activity. Click the close button to hide it.
• "You do not have permission to view this class." means your account cannot open this class. Click Back to home to go back to My classes.
• In a class linked to your school's LMS, each card shows its LMS status. See Sync Grades to LMS.

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And that's what you do after the activity! Next, let's explore how to view the activity results.