Patent Document ID: 9685095
Application ID: 14311577

Base Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, are configured to cause the processor to perform operations for grading an electronically administered assessment, the operations comprising: displaying a first challenge problem; displaying a digital ink stroke corresponding to an answer to the first challenge problem from a first assessee; receiving, from an assessor via a digital pen, a first feedback tag for association with the digital ink stroke of the first assessee; electronically tagging the digital ink stroke of the first assessee with the first feedback tag made by the assessor via the digital pen; identifying a second digital ink stroke corresponding to an answer to the first challenge problem from a second assessee that matches the electronically tagged digital ink stroke of the first assessee; automatically tagging the matched digital ink stroke of the second assessee with the first feedback tag made by the assessor via the digital pen, wherein each digital ink stroke comprises a notation spatially defined relative to the first challenge problem; and removing the automatically tagged and matched digital ink stroke of the second assessee from a set of answers still requiring assessment by the assessor.

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Claim 8:
8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein each of the digital ink strokes comprises at least one of: a series of dots, a line, a vector, an arrow, a polygon, a rectangle, a circle, a perimeter substantially enclosing a portion of the challenge problem, a notation connecting at least two regions of the challenge problem, text, an image, a graphic, and a notation spatially associating at least two regions of the challenge problem.