Download All Submitted Files for Grading

When you grade file-upload questions that you do not want to open in your browser — for example, if you want to open submitted code in a text editor with syntax highlighting, or you want to print all of your students' files to grade with a pen — you might want to download all of your students' files at once. You might also want to download all of your students' answers if you want to grade them where you do not have Internet access.

1. Open the My Classes or ClassView page.
   • For My Classes, click Tasks > My Classes Page and find the section you want.
   • For ClassView, click Jump to Class and select the section you want.
2. Click scores for the assignment with questions that need grading.
3. To download files only for specific students, select the check boxes for each student whose answers you want to grade.
4. Click Grade Answers.
5. For Questions, either select the ID of a specific question with files that you want to grade, or select Grade All.
6. For Student Names, select
   • Show to show students' names with their answers.
   • Hide to hide names so you do not know whose answers you are grading.
7. Click Start Grading.
8. At the top of the Grade Answers page, click Download to download all student file submissions in .zip format.
9. When prompted by your browser, choose to save the file and specify the file location.
10. Extract the files to a location on your computer.

    The procedure that you use will depend on your operating system.

    • On Windows, right-click the .zip file in Windows Explorer and select Extract All; then specify where you want to store the extracted files.
    • On Mac, double-click the file in Finder.
    • On Linux or UNIX, use the unzip command to extract the archive in your file manager.

    The files extracted from the downloaded archive do not have the same filenames shown in the Grade Answers page; this is because two students might use the same filename when they submit their answers. To ensure that each file has a unique name and can be associated with the question part for which it is an answer, files in the download archive use the following naming convention:

    username@institution_AID_QID_question_part.extension

    where:

    • username and institution are your student's WebAssign username and WebAssign institution code.
    • AID is the assignment ID.
    • QID is the question ID.
    • question and part identify the position of the question and question part in the assignment, starting at 0 for the first question or question part.
    • extension is the filename extension used in your student's uploaded file.

    For example, if student dmwhite@webassign submitted a Perl script for the first part of the second question (question ID 1217570) on assignment ID 1010368, the file would be named:

    dmwhite@webassign_1010368_1217570_1_0.pl

11. Open each file and score your students' answers.
    Note: If you are grading answers offline, you might want to print a copy of the assignment or question for your reference.
12. Enter your scores and comments into WebAssign. See Grade Answers for guidance.