Freehand Grader overview

1. Instructors upload a PDF of their assignment.
   You then mark the location of each question by “dropping a pin” on it. You label each question and set its point value before specifying the assignment due date.
2. Students complete the assignment.

   To answer on paper — Students can download and print the PDF to complete it. Students can also answer on blank paper as they view the assignment. You can email students the PDF or give them a printed version of the assignment.

   To answer on a tablet or laptop — Students download the PDF and enter their answers in it. To enter equations or freehand answers students can use a stylus. They save their work to PDF.

3. Students who worked on paper scan their work to create a PDF.
   They can scan multiple pages and save them to a single PDF on their phone or tablet. Student instructions: Create a PDF from scanned pages
4. Students upload their completed assignment PDF.
   They mark the locations of their answers by pinning. They must submit the assignment by its due date, even if it's only partially completed. They can submit the assignment one time only.
   OR
   Instructors bulk upload students' completed assignment PDFs.
   Students submit their assignment PDFs to the instructor. Instructors use the Bulk upload (Beta) feature to upload to upload multiple student assignments as a single PDF.
   
5. Instructors grade the assignment and release the scores.
   As you grade, you create reusable grading criteria with applicable point losses. You then apply these criteria and any optional notes to the answers of different students for the same question. You can optionally upload a solution set PDF for students to review.
6. Students can see their score and review the assignment.
   If you include a solution set PDF, students can review the correct answers after the due date.

Freehand Grader assignments are different than other assignments.

• Assignment category

  You can add Freehand Grader assignments in these categories.

  MyLab and Mastering Platform Update — Homework

  Mastering — Homework, Quiz, or Test

• Set point values before assignment dates —
  Before you can set the dates for a Freehand Grader assignment, you need to set a point value for each question.
• Single assignment submission and no late submissions —
  To give one or more students another chance, you can extend the assignment due date. From MyLab and Mastering Platform Update courses, you can also delete the results from the gradebook, which resets the assignment. (You cannot reset a Freehand Grader assignment in Mastering yet.)
• To review or see answers, students must submit some work —
  If no work is submitted, the review and solution set features are not available.

• If students have submitted work, you cannot delete the assignment —
  To make the Freehand Grader assignment unavailable to students, you can unassign it in MyLab and Mastering Platform Update courses, or change its dates in Mastering. In Mastering, you can also exempt students.

• Mastering Gradebook —
  You cannot filter your Gradebook view to see Freehand Grader assignments as a group. Time & Difficulty data is unavailable for these assignments.