Onscreen marking: using the marking tool
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1. This document explains how to use the marking tool to add marks, ticks, crosses, and other annotations to PDF documents for online marking. 2. Key features include inserting marks and comments at specific points, calculating a total score, and finalizing the marked document. 3. The process typically involves selecting the relevant tool, clicking where you want to add the annotation, and entering any associated details like the score or comment.
Onscreen marking: using the marking tool
- 1. Onscreen Marking Using the Marking Tool
- 2. Outcome At the end of this PowerPoint presentation you will know how to use the Marking Tool. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool
- 3. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Opening multiple PDFs Due to technology design, the Acrobat Java Script ensures that only one PDF is opened in Acrobat Professional at a time. If however a second PDF is opened in Acrobat Professional, the second PDF will open and the marking toolbar will be visible, but the marking toolbar options will not work in the second PDF.
- 4. The purpose of the mark toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add a mark to a PDF document. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Mark toolbar option
- 5. The process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the Mark toolbar icon 2. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the mark is to be inserted 3. The pop-up window similar to the following screenshot will appear
- 6. The process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 4. Enter the mark scored for the Element (e.g. 5). The mark scored must be in the range from -100 to 100, but decimal values of .5 (point 5) may be used, e.g. 2.5. The lecturer can optionally enter an element as well. If the Element is entered, the count toolbar option will display additional detail of the score breakdown in the results page. The default value of the Element will be the last specified Element in the PDF file 5. Click the OK button.
- 7. The process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool The mark will appear on the PDF as per the following example.
- 8. The purpose of the tick toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add a tick to a PDF. A tick will by default count one mark scored, but a different score for a tick could be specified. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool The Tick toolbar option
- 9. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the Tick toolbar icon 2. A dialog is displayed where the user specifies how much a tick will count. By default a tick will count 1 mark.
- 10. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 3. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the tick is to be inserted 4. The tick will appear on the PDF document as per the following example The tick will remain selected in the marking toolbar until it is deselected by using either the deselect, mark or count toolbar options.
- 11. The purpose of the half-tick toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add a half-tick to a PDF. A tick will always count half (0.5) a mark scored. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Half-Tick toolbar option
- 12. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the Half-Tick toolbar icon 2. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the half-tick is to be inserted 3. The half-tick will appear on the PDF document as per the following example
- 13. The purpose of the cross toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add a cross to a PDF. A cross will always count zero marks scored. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Cross toolbar option
- 14. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the Cross toolbar icon 2. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the cross is to be inserted 3. The cross will appear on the PDF document as per the following example
- 15. The purpose of the read acknowledgement toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add an indication to the PDF document that a particular part of the assignment was read. A read acknowledgement will not count as any marks scored and is ignored by the count toolbar option. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Read acknowledgement toolbar option
- 16. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the read acknowledgement 2. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the read acknowledgement is to be inserted 3. The read acknowledgement will appear on the PDF as per the following example The read acknowledgement will remain selected in the marking toolbar until it is deselected by using either the deselect, mark or count toolbar options.
- 17. The deselect toolbar option is used to deselect the tick, half-tick, cross, read acknowledgement and mark toolbar options if those toolbar options are selected. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Deselect toolbar option
- 18. The purpose of the commented mark toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add a mark to a PDF document. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Commented mark toolbar option
- 19. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the Commented mark toolbar icon 2. Click in the PDF document on the spot where the mark is to be inserted 3. The pop-up window similar to the following screenshot will appear
- 20. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 4. The mark scored, Element and comment will be pre-populated from the "Copy to marking tool" option in the marking comment tool. The values can be edited if required 5. Click the OK button 6. The mark will appear on the PDF as per the following example Process
- 21. Optional Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool The colour of the marks can be changed by right clicking the mark Select the Properties... option from the popup menu On the Appearance tab, click the button next to the colour label Select the desired colour If you want all subsequent marks, ticks, half-ticks, crosses and read acknowledgements to use the selected colour, then select the Make Properties Default check box Click the OK button.
- 22. The purpose of the count toolbar option is to allow a lecturer marking an assignment to add all the marks and ticks together to calculate the total marks scored for the assignment. The total marks scored will be displayed at the end of the assignment in a new page that will be added when clicking the count toolbar icon. Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool Count toolbar option Should the marker be using a rubric for marking purposes, the count toolbar button should only be used once the rubric is FINALIZED and SAVED.
- 23. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 1. Select the count toolbar icon 2. A dialog is displayed asking the marker whether they are making use of a rubric. If marker selects NO, continue with Step 3 below 3. A dialog is displayed where the total marks out of which the assignment counts is specified. The default value for the assignment total is obtained from the Marking Comment Tool
- 24. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool 4. Scroll to the last page in the PDF to view the results page 5. The following screen shot shows an example results page with a breakdown of marks per Element
- 25. Finalize button Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool After the Count toolbar option is used, a results page is generated. In the bottom left corner of the results page, there is a finalize button. Click the finalize button to finalize and save the PDF.
- 26. Process Onscreen Marking: Using the Marking Tool The file will be saved under a different name. The naming convention: Student scored 20 out of a total of 40 marks (50%): filename.pdf > filename_MARK050100.pdf. Finally, when a PDF is finalized, the marking toolbar will be hidden thus not allowing any further marking changes.