Grading a quiz

From the main Quizzes page, click the Grade Quiz icon next to the quiz you want to grade. You are presented with 2 options for grading quizzes:

• Grade by Attempts
• Grade by Questions (item analysis)

The options are displayed in tabs. By selecting the appropriate tab, you have the ability to grade by either attempts or questions.

Grading a quiz by attempt

By selecting the appropriate boxes you can change the following quiz display options:

• ID  displays the users’ Org Defined IDs beside their name
• Quiz Score  displays the grade beside users’ names
• Percent  displays the percent beside users’ names
• Completed  displays date and time the quiz was completed
• Allow Reset  allows you to reset users’ grades – if you check this box, a delete icon will appear beside the users’ attempts

All users enrolled in your course are listed on the left-hand side. The users who have submitted results for the current quiz are in bold and you can access their quiz attempts and overall results by clicking on the name of their quiz attempt (for example, “attempt 1”).

The following is displayed at the top of the quiz results:

• User’s name
• User’s ID
• Test restrictions (date and time available)
• When the quiz was written
• Quizzes event log
• Time limit
• Time spent
• Grade statistics

Grade a quiz by attempt

1. Click on the quiz attempt you want to grade. The user's entire quiz is displayed including question data, the user’s answers and the correct answers. If a user’s answer is correct it appears with a check mark and if it is wrong it displays with an X.
2. Overall quiz feedback can be left for the user by typing in the Attempt Comments text field.
3. You can give the user feedback on any individual question by clicking Add Feedback below the question.
4. If you want to override an existing auto-grade, enter a new value in the Score text field.
5. After you have finished manually grading the quiz, click the Re-Calculate button.
6. Click the Save Results button.

Grading a quiz by question

While grading a quiz, click the Questions tab to view quiz responses by question. Before you click on a question, there are two options available to view question responses: Grade Individual Responses and Update All Attempts.

Grade Individual Responses

Grade Individual Responses enables you to grade a quiz one question at a time. This means you can grade and leave feedback for all responses to each question before moving onto the next question. There are two additional options available in this view:

Blind Marking  When selected, student information does not appear alongside responses and responses display in a shuffled order. This aids in preventing unintentional bias during marking.

View Graded Responses  When selected, previously-graded responses appear as part of the response queue.

In this view, you can also choose to display 1, 5, 10, or 20 responses on each page.

Update All Attempts

Update All Attempts enables you to view question statistics, make grading changes, and leave feedback for all responses to the selected question.

Question statistics display a percentage breakdown of how users responded to the question and the date of the most recent response. Other information displayed in the question statistics includes the quiz version, question text and options, and number of responses for each option.

Below the question statistics, there are options to modify the grade for all responses to the current question. Use Grading Type to override grades for all users at once, instead of individually updating each quiz attempt. The following options are available for the Grading Type:

Give to all attempts  Allows you to award points to all users who received the current question on their quiz. Type the desired point value in the text field.

Give to attempts with answer (#)  Allows you to award points for a specific response. This is useful if a question was incorrectly set up when the quiz was created. For example, if students who completed the quiz received a grade value of 0 when they really should have received a grade value of 1, you can use this option to award them the appropriate grade value.

Note  Any changes made to the grading of a quiz question are recorded in the Modifications Log. The log documents the date, time, username, and action taken for each change to quiz grading.