Grading & analytics
Publish course grades from the Users Grades tab, track per-block analytics, and monitor course engagement — and understand how LMS grading differs from the CMS Exam Center.
Grading and analytics in FuxamLMS is where teaching teams close the feedback loop inside a course. You enter and publish grades for gradable content blocks, inspect how students engage with individual steps, and review course-wide participation trends. Together, these tools answer three questions universities ask every term: What did students achieve?, Where are they struggling?, and Is the course working as designed?
Fuxam deliberately separates grading from analytics. The Grades sub-tab under Users is the authoritative place to enter, review, and publish individual marks. The Analytics tab — and per-block analytics inside the learning journey — show engagement, completion, and participation patterns without replacing the grade book.
Why it matters
Universities need a transparent chain from assignment to evidence of work to recorded outcome to student visibility. Without a reliable grade book, exam offices cannot reconcile module results; without analytics, teachers discover problems only after deadlines pass.
LMS grading supports formative use (returning work while learning continues) and summative use (recording achievement that may feed module or programme decisions). Analytics complement marks by showing whether low grades reflect difficulty, disengagement, or structural blockers in the journey — for example a condition students cannot meet.
Publishing is the gate between private staff marks and student-facing results. Until grades are published, students do not see them in the learning journey; once published, the corresponding content blocks become read-only until you unpublish.
How this fits into Fuxam
Grading and analytics sit at the end of the teaching workflow inside a course, but they connect backward to content creation, submission review, and progress monitoring — and outward to institutional exam and reporting tools in OrgHub.
| Stage | Where it happens | Handbook reference |
|---|---|---|
| Students submit work | Content blocks in the learning journey | Submit a hand-in |
| Teachers review individual submissions | Block Users overview | Review submissions and grade |
| Enter and publish grades across blocks | Course Users → Grades | View and publish course grades |
| Per-block completion and grade distribution | Block Analytics tab | Content block analytics |
| Cohort engagement and participation | Course Analytics tab | Course analytics |
| Per-user journey status | Users progress sheet | Monitor progress |
| Formal module exams and institutional reports | OrgHub Exam Center and Statistics Center | Exam Center and reporting |
Key concepts
| Term | Meaning in FuxamLMS |
|---|---|
| Gradable content block | A block that collects student work and accepts a grade — typically Hand-in, Exam, Assessment, or Interactive File |
| Ungraded | The student has submitted work but no grade has been entered yet |
| Graded but unpublished | A grade exists for staff but the student cannot see it yet |
| Published | The grade has been shared with the student |
| Publish all Grades | One action that releases every entered grade in the course grade grid |
| Content block analytics | Per-block metrics: completion, ratings, grade distribution, and learn time |
| Course analytics | Course-wide sections: Summary, Visits, Engagement, and Participation |
| Formative vs summative | Formative assessment guides learning during the term; summative assessment records achievement — both can use the same LMS tools, but release timing and weighting differ by module rules |
LMS course grades vs the CMS Exam Center
Both areas involve assessment, but they serve different scopes and administrative roles. Confusing them is a common source of support tickets at universities.
| Dimension | LMS course grades | CMS Exam Center |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | One course offering and its learning journey | Module-linked formal exams across the institution |
| Where you work | Course navigation → Users → Grades | OrgHub → Exam Center → My Exams |
| What is graded | Grades on content blocks inside the journey | Exam submissions with attempt tabs, exam types, and academic rulesets |
| Typical user | Teachers and course editors marking weekly work | Exam officers, module organisers, and graders on official exam sittings |
| Publishing | Publish all Grades or unpublish from the Grades view | Per-exam publish from attempt or pending tabs — see Grade and manage an exam |
| Analytics and reporting | Course analytics and content block analytics | Statistics and reports — university-wide exports and custom report builder |
| Configuration | Block setup in the learning journey | Exam types, academic rulesets, grading scales |
A course may contain Exam content blocks whose grades you manage in the LMS grade grid, while the same module might also have a separate formal exam record in OrgHub. Your exam office can clarify which system is authoritative for transcript and module completion decisions.
In this section
View and publish course grades
See all grades in one place, publish them to students, or unpublish to make corrections.
Content block analytics
Track completion rates, ratings, and grade distribution for individual content blocks.
Course analytics
Monitor Summary, Visits, Engagement, and Participation metrics for the whole course.
Roles and responsibilities
| Role | Typical responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Teacher / course editor | Review submissions, enter grades, publish when the cohort is ready, read block and course analytics to improve teaching |
| Teaching assistant | Review submissions and enter grades when granted permission to edit the learning journey; may not publish depending on role |
| Student | Submits work through content blocks; sees published grades in the learning journey — not the staff Grades view |
| Administrator | Enables the analytics feature for the institution; manages enrollments and formal exams in CMS when LMS grades are not sufficient for reporting |
| Exam office | Owns CMS Exam Center workflows, grade release policies for formal exams, and Statistics Center exports |
Where to start
A practical workflow for a new teaching term:
- Open the course — Confirm you are in the correct offering. See Open a course.
- Review submissions block by block — Use the block Users overview for detailed marking. See Review submissions and grade.
- Check the grade grid — Open Users → Grades to see every student and block at once before you publish.
- Publish when ready — Release grades with Publish all Grades only after the marking team agrees the set is consistent.
- Monitor engagement — Use Monitor progress, block analytics, and course analytics to spot stuck cohorts early in the term.
- Escalate formal exams — When module rules require OrgHub exams or institutional statistics, continue in Exam Center and reporting.
Related pages
Review submissions and grade
Mark individual submissions inside a content block.
Monitor progress
Per-user progress sheets and course-wide completion.
Open a course
Course navigation including Users and Analytics tabs.
Exam Center and reporting
Formal exams, rulesets, and institutional statistics in OrgHub.