Marking takes up a ton of time as an educator. Also giving personalised feedback is super challenging to do when you have many students.In this guide we will show you how to use AI to create auto-marked homework that gives detailed personalised feedback to each student.
1. Click the create classwork button
2. This will show you a list where you can select homework.
3. Once you select homework. You need to specify a pathway that you're wanting to put the homework inside of. On Mindjoy all homework sits inside of pathways. This helps you as an educator organise your classwork and for students find their work.
4. In order for Mindjoy to generate your homework you will need to upload content from a textbook chapter, lesson notes or any documents containing the lesson objectives you are trying to teach your students.
5. You can add additional instructions to inform how your homework will be generated.
6. Finally Click "Create Classwork"
7. Your homework will take around 1-3 minutes to generate
8. Once the homework has completed generating, click on it.
9. As you can see. It's now created a bunch of different blocks, some of them being content, some questions.
10. Feel free to edit any of these questions or text blocks
11. The main thing we want to highlight to you is that most of the questions will be what we call Free Response Questions. These questions have a mark scheme. AI will use the mark scheme to auto mark student answers.
12. You can preview these questions and make sure that when the students answer them that you're happy with the feedback given.
13. Try submitting an answer as if you were a student.
14. Once adding an answer click submit and you should then see the result of the AI marking.
15. The AI should mark the answer against the mark scheme, and then you can see the feedback the student would have received if they had submitted that answer.
16. Click "Close"
17. One important option to highlight is that you can select a tutor so that the student will have an AI chat helping them while going through the work. If you want them doing it on their own then do not select a tutor.
18. If you would like to see how students view the homework Click "Preview"
19. Now you should be seeing the homework as a student would. Click the next button to navigate through all the questions.
20. Once happy with your new homework you need to assign it to a classroom - click "Assign"
21. Click the classroom you would like to assign your homework to
22. You can also add a due date when assigning it to the classroom.
23. Click "Save"
24. The homework should now be assigned to the classroom. To confirm click on the classroom you assigned the homework to on the left menu bar.
25. Click "Pathways"
26. Reminder: Click "Students" tab and make sure you have students in the classroom or no one will be completing the homework anytime soon.
27. Once some of your students have submitted their work you can click on "Submissions" to see how they are all doing.
28. You can see the amount of students completed, the class average and how each student did.
