How to grade student work completed in MURAL
End of semester grading
At the end of an assignment or semester, have your students export their murals as PDFs and submit them via your LMS.
Note: If you’ve invited students as visitors or guests rather than members, they will not be able to export murals. In this case you will need to export the mural as a PDF and distribute to your class or have them take a screenshot.
Periodic grading
If you want to track your students’ progress throughout the semester, periodically export or take a screenshot of their murals and upload those snapshots to your LMS. If your students are members rather than guests or visitors, you can have your students export the murals themselves.
Monitoring participation
To check participation, right click an object on the mural and click the “Show Info” button at the top of the menu to see who added it. If your students are joining your workspace as visitors, make sure they enter their names when opening the mural so objects can be identified as theirs.
Hi, my name is Jeff Eyet. I'm with the education team at MURAL. I also teach design thinking at UC Berkeley. Today, I'd like to share how I've incorporated MURAL into the grading structure of my class.
Specifically, I like to run this exercise, which is an introduction exercise that gives the students the opportunity to paste their LinkedIn profile, perhaps tell us a little bit about their non-professional selves and then give some aspirations for the class or workshop often. This is given to students prior to class, so they have a chance to engage with the platform and be comfortable with it before our first meeting. Alternatively, you can also use a template like this during your first meeting as a low stakes way for students to get to know each other. And again, be comfortable with the platform that said, assuming the students have completed the exercises at the end of class, I'm going to come in and in the upper right-hand corner, simply click export next to the share button. And we'll give you the opportunity to export as a PDF or a PNG file. I'm going to choose PDF. I'll either receive an email notification or a ping in Slack. If I've enabled the MURAL plugin to tell me when that download is ready, clicking over to my email, you can see the mural is ready for export. Simply click download the PDF that PDF is sent to my hard drive. And then at that point, I come into canvas where I've already created an assignment. Simply have the students submit it, or I can submit it on their behalf.
And wallah. There are three reasons I really suggest doing this: one, MURAL’s not great at going back in time - If I want to know what a mural looked like last Friday at 5:00 PM, that's going to be difficult. So taking this snapshot in time, preserves the students' work. Second, if there's ever any questions about the grade, you certainly want to have evidence, and third, having the assignment graded in canvas or whatever LMS you choose gives you the opportunity to publish a rubric. So the students know what they're being judged against. Thank you for taking the time to learn about using MURAL for grading and please visit mural.co/education. To learn more about templates, workshops, and webinars to support you.
