Grade an Exam and Publish Results
Points become grades through a grading key, and both become visible to students on the date you set. Neither step is mandatory: an exam without a grading key simply reports points.
Grading Key
Grading Key at the top of the exam's detail page turns exam scores into grades automatically, and students see their grade from the Release Date of Results onwards. It also improves the statistics, since a grade distribution says more than a score distribution.
Set Default Grading Key followed by Save gives you a working key immediately. Add grade step builds one by hand instead, and Detailed editing mode exposes the exact bounds of each step.
Grade steps are percentages of the total obtainable score by default. Set Maximum number of points for exam and Artemis shows the point equivalent of each step alongside the percentage.
Two fields decide how the key behaves at the edges. Inclusivity settles which grade a score exactly on a boundary receives. Grade Type chooses between the two kinds of key:
- Grade produces a final grade with names you choose. Set First Passing Grade so Artemis knows which steps count as a pass.
- Bonus produces bonus points instead, which contribute to the grade of another course or exam rather than standing on their own.
The import and export buttons save a key as CSV and load it into another course or exam, which is how a department's standard key gets reused rather than retyped.
Publication of Results
Release Date of Results, set in the exam configuration, is when students can see their results in their summary. It is usually the end of assessment, but nothing stops you choosing another moment.
Exam Scores
Scores aggregates the exam: the spread of achieved scores, the average per exercise, and every individual result. Average, median and standard deviation are given for the exam as a whole, and students' own difficulty ratings per exercise are collected alongside them, which is the most useful input into next year's exam.
Two filters change what the figures are computed from — only include submitted exams and only include exercises with at least one non-empty submission. Both exist because unsubmitted exams and undrawn exercises distort an average badly:
- An unsubmitted exam is never assessed, so it appears as no score at all. Where a grading key exists, its student receives the no-participation grade described under Grading.
- An exercise can be in no individual exam at all, if Artemis happened to draw a different exercise from its group every time.
Export writes the scores as CSV, which is what goes into a university system such as TUM Online. Each row carries the student's name, username, email and registration number, the exercises they were assigned, their score per exercise, overall exam points and score, grade before any bonus, presentation score, and whether they submitted and passed. The file also carries the aggregated per-exercise statistics — number of participations and average score.
Three things appear only when they apply: bonus grades and the final grade when a bonus is configured, plagiarism verdicts when the exam has at least one, and plagiarism verdicts from the bonus source when that has one.
Exam Solutions
Example Solution Publication Date publishes the example solutions of the text, modeling, file upload and programming exercises to the students who submitted. Unlike course exercises, which each carry their own date, an exam publishes all of its solutions together on this one.
Leave it empty — the default — and no solutions are ever published. If set, it must fall on or after both Visible from and End of working time.
