🎯 Purpose

Panel grading allows multiple teachers or administrators to score a student's rubric assessment, with each panelist's score averaged to calculate the final grade. This guide covers how to assign a Defense of Learning assessment with panel graders, add panelists after an assessment is already assigned, and remove a panelist when needed.

💡 Why Use Panel Grading?

Support equitable grading by averaging scores across multiple evaluators
Ensure clear and consistent communication of student learning progression
Allow flexibility to add or remove panelists at any point in the process
Standardize the Defense of Learning grading experience across classrooms and grade levels

🔑 Prerequisites

Requirement	Details
Assessment Access	The Defense of Learning assessments are located in your Shared with Me folders under Assessments
Panelist Permissions	Panelists can be added or removed at any time by the teacher of record or any school administrator
Assign Once	Students should only be assigned the Defense of Learning assessment once. Panel scores from multiple instances cannot be merged

📋 Assign the Defense of Learning Assessment

Step 1: Navigate to Assessments and locate the Defense of Learning assessments in your Shared with Me folders.

Step 2: Choose Assign from the ellipsis menu options.

Step 3: Choose the course or courses that will be assigned this particular Defense of Learning assessment. You can multi-select the different courses you may need.

💡 Tip: To learn about the additional assignment settings available, click here.

Step 4: Under Panel Grading, type each educator's name or email address in the Select Panelists field and select to add their name to the list of panelists.

Step 5: Choose Assign to complete the process.

Watch the entire process in action.

➕ Add Panelists to an Already-Assigned Assessment

Panelists can be added at any time after the assessment has already been assigned.

Step 1: Navigate to Assessments and choose Assigned.

Step 2: Choose the correct class under Classes.

Step 3: Select the ellipsis menu beside the correct assessment and choose Settings.

Step 4: Scroll to panel grading and type the name or email of the educator you'd like to add. The Main Teacher will appear in the first row by default.