.. _Palm ORA grading:

Enhanced ORA Grading Experience (Palm)
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In the latest Open edX release, Palm, the ORA (Open Response Assessment) tool
has been upgraded to provide a better grading experience for course instructors.

What has changed?
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In this new on-platform grading experience, one can assign rubric values,
provide comments, and coordinate grading with all members of the course teams.
Additionally, graders can  easily preview common file types, including:

* Images (gif, png, jpeg)
* Plain-text (with monotype fonts and line feeds intact)
* .txt tabular data (.csv files will not preview)
* PDFs, including multi-page PDFs with page selection

From the ORA grading interface, instructors can select multiple submissions and
click the :guilabel:`View` button to enter a grading mode for those submissions:

   .. image:: /_images/release_notes/palm/ora1.png

In the grading mode, there are four things to note, illustrated in this picture
and described below:

   .. image:: /_images/release_notes/palm/ora2.png


#. This is a display of a learner's username, the status of their submission (for
   example, “Grading Complete” or “Currently being graded by someone else”), and
   their current score.

#. “Show Rubric” is a button that, when clicked, displays the rubric on the
   right hand side of the learner's submission:

      .. image:: /_images/release_notes/palm/ora3.png

#. When “Override Grade” is selected, the above rubric display becomes editable.
   Grade line items and comments can be changed.

      .. image:: /_images/release_notes/palm/ora4.png

   The score information is not saved until pressing the submit button. This
   means you can score a response, move on to another, and then go back to the
   first response and change the grade again - all without pushing scores to the
   LMS for persistence.

#. The page selector allows course staff to navigate through the submissions.

Pay attention to the fact that Grade Override is a permanent action; it cannot
be undone. Course staff are given a prompt before entering Grade Override mode
to make sure that is understood.

   .. image:: /_images/release_notes/palm/ora5.png

Where can I go for more information?
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For more information about how this feature works, see :ref:`ORA Staff Grading`.

How can I get this?
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The ORA improvements are available as of the Open edX Palm release. `Upgrading
your local installation to Palm
<https://docs.tutor.edly.io/install.html#upgrading>`_ will guarantee that your
system is up-to-datewith the latest features, including the ORA Grading MFE
(Micro-Front End). To turn on the feature, add the feature flag
``openresponseassessment.enhanced_staff_grader``.




**Maintenance chart**

+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Review Date  | Working Group Reviewer        |   Release      |Test situation                                     |
+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|2025-04-28    | Docs WG                       | Teak           | Deprecated: This is no longer the current release |
+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------+