Evaluate quizzes using the Quizzes tool
If your quiz has questions that can be auto-graded in Brightspace, you do not have to evaluate those questions unless desired.
To evaluate quizzes
- On your course homepage, navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the drop-down menu beside the name of the quiz you want to evaluate.
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Select Grade.
Figure: Select Grade in the Actions drop-down menu.
- From the Grade Quiz page, select an attempt to open the quiz for grading.
- Under the Score of a quiz question, enter a new point value and select Update to save.
Note: If you have negative grading enabled, you can also enter a negative value in the Score field. For example, if a question is graded out of 1 point, and you want to deduct 25% from that point because the answer submitted is incorrect, enter -0.25. Note that when deducting percentages from point values, the final attempt grade for the quiz will not go below 0. For more information about negative grading, refer to the Create a quiz with negative grading section of the Create and configure a quiz topic.
Evaluating quizzes in the Users or Attempts tab
Evaluating quizzes from the Attempts tab lets you grade learners' quizzes by selecting an attempt from their attempt log.
To evaluate quizzes in the Users or Attempts tab
- On your course homepage, navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the drop-down menu beside the name of the quiz you want to evaluate.
- Select Grade.
Figure: Select Grade in the Actions drop-down menu.
- Select Attempts.
- Select the quiz attempt you want to grade from the Attempt column.
- In the Question View drop-down menu, choose either:
- All questions to view all quiz questions whether you have or have not graded them.
- Pending evaluations to only view the questions you have not graded.
- For each written question's Attempt Grade, enter the score for that question.
Note: If you have negative grading enabled, you can also enter a negative value in the Score field. For example, if a question is graded out of 1 point, and you want to deduct 25% from that point because the answer submitted is incorrect, enter -0.25. Note that when deducting percentages from point values, the final attempt grade for the quiz will not go below 0. For more information about negative grading, refer to the Enable negative grading of incorrect quiz questions section of the Create and configure a quiz topic.
- For questions with auto-graded Scores, like multiple choice questions, you do not have to grade the question unless you are correcting an error.
- In the Feedback text box, enter feedback for that question if desired.
- Click Update when you are finished grading to save your evaluation. Alternatively, click Retract to remove your evaluation.
- Click Back to return to the Grade Quiz page.
- Repeat the above steps for each learner.
Evaluating quizzes in the Questions tab
The Questions tab allows you to grade all learner attempts for a single question. You can choose Grade individual responses to grade the question for each learner; or you can Update all attempts to give everyone the same mark for a specific question.
For the Grade individual responses workflow:
- Under Grade individual responses, select Hide learners' names or View evaluated responses to see learners' names.
- Click the question you want to evaluate.
Note: You do not have to enter grades for auto-graded questions unless desired.
- For the Page Size drop-down list below Grade Question, click the number of learner responses you want per page. The number of questions that can appear are 1, 5, 10, and 20.
- Enter the Score.
- Click Expand question feedback to open the Feedback text box. Enter your feedback if desired.
- To move to the next page of responses, click the arrows below Grade Question.
- When you are finished grading, click Save to return to the Grade Quiz page.
- Repeat the above steps for each question.
Note: You cannot print a graded quiz. If you need to do it, take screenshots and add them to a document that can be printed.
Save draft quiz feedback
When evaluating a quiz, save your quiz feedback as a draft to continue your evaluation later.
To save quiz feedback as a draft
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- From the Actions menu of the quiz you want to grade, click Grade.
Figure: The Actions menu of a quiz showing the Grade option.
- In the Users tab, click the attempt of the learner you want to evaluate.
- After evaluating the quiz submission, click Save Draft to store any grading and feedback information.
On the Grade Quiz page, in the Status column, attempts with draft feedback display Draft Saved, along with the date and time it was saved (to indicate that evaluation is in progress).
Click Publish Feedback to release the feedback for multiple attempts simultaneously.
Note: Once feedback is published, the user interface displays options to Update and Retract. Retract allows score and feedback to be hidden from learners. Published feedback automatically appears in your grade book. If you retract published feedback, the entry is simultaneously removed from the grade book until you publish again.
Retake incorrect quiz questions in subsequent attempts
The Retake Incorrect Questions Only option allows learners to only retake their incorrectly answered questions from previous quiz attempts. When the learner re-attempts their quiz, the quiz questions answered incorrectly on previous attempts are indicated by an alert symbol. Each quiz attempt displays questions in the same order as the initial attempt (including quizzes with question pools). Questions that were correct on previous attempts still show the “question stem” but will omit the answers.
You can use Preview Quiz to take the quiz and submit a Preview Attempt. You must select the Allow this preview attempt to be graded in the Grade Quiz area on the submission page of the preview attempt.
Grading considerations
- A learner's score for a Retake Incorrect Questions Only attempt remains at minimum, the score they had on the previous attempt. Correctly answered questions on the Retake Incorrect Questions Only attempt add to the learner's attempts score.
- When grading a Retake Incorrect Questions Only quiz attempt, the instructor can only provide a score for the questions answered on this attempt. The Quiz Overall Score is calculated using the existing Highest/Lowest/First/Last/Average aggregation functions. The Average aggregation function can be used to give the learner partial marks for questions that were not answered correctly on the first attempt.
- D2L recommends against using Automatically set as graded option for quizzes with written response questions. If you use Automatic grading, Written Response questions will be marked as 0 and included in future attempts until they are graded manually.
In the Attempt Log, instructors and administrators can identify retaken attempts:
Figure: Retaken attempts are noted after the learner's name in the Attempt log.
In addition, on the Users tab, retaken attempts are listed to differentiate from first attempts.
Figure: The Users tab indicates a retaken quiz attempt for the learner.
Enable learning objective completion using grade item activities with automatic assessment
You can configure automatic evaluation for grade item activities so that learners' activity achievement is determined automatically based on their grade item score.
To enable learning objective completion using grade item activities with automatic assessment
- Navigate to Competencies.
- On the Competency homepage, click on the learning objective you want to add a grade item activity to for automatic assessment.
- Click Structure.
- In the Edit Structure tab, expand the Add Children section and click Incorporate Activities.
- Click on the activity you want to add to the learning objective.
- Select the Assess Objective check box.
- From the Assessment Type drop-down list, select Numeric.
- Select the The activity is required to complete learning objective check box, and then enter the Overall Threshold information.
- Click Add.
You can also configure grade item activities to automatically evaluate by attaching a holistic rubric to the item. If you attach a holistic rubric for a grade item activity that uses Percentages as the scoring method, the learner's grade percentage is automatically mapped to the appropriate achievement level.
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