Text Exercise
A text exercise asks students to write prose: an explanation, an argument, a comparison. There is nothing to run against an answer, so every submission is read and marked by a person — though Artemis can suggest assessments for passages that resemble ones already graded.
Create the Exercise
Create on the course's Exercises page in course management opens the Manage Exercises dialog. Its Create tab lists the exercise types; picking Text opens the creation form.
The form is the same five sections for every exercise type:
- General — the Title, the Channel Name of the communication channel Artemis opens for the exercise, and the Categories it is filed under.
- Mode — the Difficulty, and Participation, which is where an exercise is made a team exercise. Participation cannot be changed once the exercise exists.
- Problem — the Problem Statement students read, with files you can attach to it.
- Solution — the Example Solution.
- Grading — everything that decides what the exercise is worth and when. Release Date makes it visible, Start Date lets students begin, Due Date stops them working, Assessment Due Date publishes the feedback, and Example Solution Publication Date releases the solution; leave that last one empty and the solution stays with the tutors. Points and Bonus Points set the value, Include this exercise in the course score calculation takes Yes, Bonus or No, and Assessment Instructions are the rubric assessors work from.
Each assessment instruction carries Credits worth of points, a Scale naming the performance level it represents, a Description saying when to apply it, and Feedback the student reads. Limit caps how often one instruction may contribute to a mark. Assessors apply them by dragging one onto a passage, which is what keeps several people marking the same way.
Whether this exercise gets AI feedback is not set here. It follows the course, which switches Athena on for every eligible exercise at once — see AI-Assisted Feedback.
Import an Existing Exercise
The Import tab of the same dialog copies an exercise you already have instead of starting from an empty form. Pick the type, then the exercise, and Artemis opens the creation form with every field filled in from it, ready to adjust.
Manage the Exercise
The exercise appears on the course's exercise list, where each row offers the same set of actions: Participations lists who took part, Scores shows what they achieved, Example Submissions manages the submissions assessors train on, Edit reopens the form and Delete removes it. Whatever does not fit on a narrow window moves behind the row's overflow menu. The title opens the exercise itself.
Assess Submissions
Assessment opens once the due date has passed. Assessment in the course navigation lists the exercises waiting to be marked; Exercise Dashboard on the text exercise opens its own queue.
The first time you assess this exercise, Artemis shows the problem statement and a summary of the assessment instructions and asks you to work through an example before starting. After that, Start new assessment hands you one unassessed submission at a time, chosen at random so assessors cannot pick.
Click a text block to open the assessment dialog and give it points and feedback. To mark a passage Artemis has not
split out on its own, hold alt/option and click the first and last word of the passage you want. Dragging an
assessment instruction onto a passage applies its points and feedback in one go.
Add new feedback attaches feedback to the submission as a whole rather than to a passage.
When you are done, Submit publishes the assessment, Save keeps it to finish later, Cancel discards it and releases the lock so somebody else can take the submission, and Exercise Dashboard returns to the queue.
Automatic Assessment Suggestions
Where the course has Grading feedback suggestions switched on in its Athena AI Feedback panel, Athena proposes feedback for passages resembling ones already graded in this exercise. The suggestions are a starting point an assessor accepts, edits or ignores; nothing is published without a person submitting it.
What Students See
Students start the exercise, write their answer beside the task and submit it — see Text Exercise on the student pages.