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Sakai 23 - Tests & Quizzes: What are the Grading and Feedback options for an assessment?
What are the Grading and Feedback options for an assessment?
Grading and Feedback includes options such as whether to send grades to the Gradebook, the score that is recorded if a student has multiple submissions, and the types of feedback you make available to students.
If multiple submissions or retakes are allowed, record the...
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Recorded Score options include either the highest score or the last submission score, or an average score from all submissions. The default setting is to record the highest score. If you allow multiple attempts, select the type of score that you want to be recorded for that assessment.
Note: If you choose the option to Allow Retake for a student, and the assessment only allows one submission, the submission you'll see will depend on this record score setting. If your assessment includes manually graded questions, and you already graded it before allowing the student to retake it, the highest score will most likely be the first submission. You might need to change an assessment setting (either how the score is recorded or number of submissions allowed) after all the students have completed the assessment to view the retake results.
Anonymous Grading (Optional)
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The default setting here is that students' identities can be seen by graders.
However, if you want to the submissions with submission IDs only, check the box next to Display anonymous IDs while grading, instead of students’ names/IDs.
Note: The Anonymous grading setting differs from the option to release the survey to Anonymous Users. You CAN change the Anonymous grading setting in the Grading and Feedback section after grading to see the students' names, but you CANNOT change the Assessment Released to Anonymous Users setting.
Gradebook Options
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If you want to send grades to the Gradebook, select the check box next to Send assessment score to Gradebook immediately, on submission.
Note: If you send grades to the Gradebook, scores will be sent immediately upon submission of the assessment. If you have any questions that are not automatically scored (e.g., short answer/essay, file upload), grades may appear to be artificially low until you enter scores for these questions. You can also wait until after all questions have been graded, and then change the setting for this published assessment to send grades to the Gradebook.
Options for entering automatic feedback
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For the type of feedback boxes to display when creating questions, the default option is Feedback for individual questions. This allows the instructor to provide feedback for correct and/or incorrect answers for each question. You may also choose to display Feedback for specific answer options (e.g., A, B, C) (i.e., feedback per answer choice), or Feedback for both questions and specific answers.
Note: You must select either Feedback for specific answer options (e.g., A, B, C) or Feedback for both questions and specific answers before authoring or editing a question to be able to enter selection-level feedback on the question editing page.
Feedback Authoring: Question-Level Feedback Options Editing View
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If you have chosen either Feedback for individual questions or Feedback for both questions and specific answers, you'll be able to type in Correct Answer or Incorrect Answer Feedback when authoring or editing the assessment. Correct Answer Feedback displays if the student selects the correct answer to the question. Incorrect Answer Feedback displays if the student selects an incorrect answer option.
Feedback Authoring: Selection-Level Feedback Options Editing View
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If you have chosen either Feedback for specific answer options (e.g., A, B, C) or Feedback for both questions and specific answers, you'll be able to type in a Feedback text box for each answer option when authoring or editing a question.
Will feedback be displayed to students?
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Feedback delivery controls if and when students are able see their submission results.
- No, do not display any feedback to the student does not display any feedback to the student.
- Yes, show the student feedback while they are taking the assessment. They can change their answers accordingly. is recommended for self-tests only, as it will display the answers immediately - PRIOR to the student submitting the assessment.
- Yes, show feedback on submission (the default setting) displays feedback to students as soon as they submit the assessment.
- Yes, show feedback to the student on specific dates releases assessment feedback upon the date and time specified.
Feedback on specific date options
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If you select Yes, show feedback to the student on specific dates additional options will appear which allow you to specify:
- The start date for feedback display
- The end date for feedback display
- The option to display feedback only to students scoring below a given percentage
Advanced Feedback Options
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You can also decide how much feedback you want to release to students.
- You can choose to Only display the student's total score (questions not shown) so that they only see their grade on the assessment, not individual questions.
- Or, you can choose to Display questions and additional feedback (options expand when selected) and then select the items that you want students to see from the list that follows. Check the box next to any items you want students to see.
Tip: If you are concerned about students sharing their exam results with one another, you should choose either No, do not display any feedback to the student or Yes, show feedback to the student on specific dates in the feedback type area above. Selecting a feedback date after the closing date for the assessment will prevent students from sharing feedback with other students who have not yet taken the test.
Notes:
- If you select to give feedback and Display questions and additional feedback (options expand when selected), but do NOT check any of the boxes for the types of feedback to release, students won't see any feedback.
- You can change the feedback settings after an assessment has been completed by going to Assessments tab in Tests & Quizzes and selecting Settings from the drop-down menu for that assessment.