Quizzes/Surveys - Grading Quizzes

• About Quizzes/Surveys
• Creating Quizzes or Surveys
• Managing Quizzes or Surveys
• Editing Quizzes or Surveys

• Question Database
• Grading Quizzes
• Details, Statistics, and Reports
• Importing and Downloading Questions

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Once a quiz has been completed, it must be graded. WebCT automatically grades all question types, except for paragraph questions. While automatic grading can accelerate the grading process, the final decision on all grading remains with the instructor or teaching assistant. The way that students are graded is defined by the grading scheme (refer to Quiz & Survey Settings). Grading allows you to review and modify the grade assigned to the student for any question in the quiz except for zero point questions.

• grade paragraph questions
• override question scores
• grade submissions
• reset student quiz attempts and grades
• assign bonus or penalty points
• submit an "In Progress" quiz for grading
• submit and grade a quiz that is "Not Taken"

About Submissions | Top

Submissions provide information for each student attempt.

• Grade: the student's grade for the quiz as determined by the grading scheme (refer to Quiz & Survey Settings).
• No.: the number of the attempt at the quiz. Note: "---" indicates that the student has not attempted the quiz yet.
• Score: the student's score for the quiz
• Time: the time the student spent on the quiz. Note: A time of "00:00^" appears if a grader submits a Not taken quiz on the student's behalf.
• Status: the quiz is either Graded, Not graded, Partial, In progress, or Not taken. Note: A status of Partial indicates that the quiz contains paragraph questions that have not yet been graded. A status of In progress indicates that the student has opened the quiz but has not submitted it for grading. A status of Not taken indicates that the student has not opened the quiz.

You can view a student's quiz responses for a specific attempt by clicking on the hyperlinked No.

You can view further information on the time spent by the student on a quiz attempt by clicking on the hyperlinked Time.

Grading Paragraph Questions | Top

WebCT is unable to grade paragraph questions; it must be done by the instructor or teaching assistant.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz in which you want to grade a paragraph question and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Locate the submission you want to grade and, under No., click the attempt you want to view. The View Submission screen appears.
4. Locate the paragraph question and read the student response.
5. In the Score text box, enter the student's score.
6. If you want to comment on the student's response, in the Comments text box, enter your comments.
7. Click Update grade. The Submissions screen appears and the student's grade is updated.

Overriding Scores | Top

You can override grades assigned by WebCT, an instructor, or teaching assistant. Note: You cannot override a grade for a question worth zero points.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz in which you want to override grades and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Locate the submission you want to grade and, under No., click the attempt you want to view. The View Submission screen appears.
4. Locate the question for which you want to override the score and, in the Override score text box, enter the new score.
5. If you want to comment on the student's response, in the Comments text box, enter your comments.
6. Click Update grade. The Submissions screen appears and the student's grade is updated.

Grading Submissions | Top

You can grade a quiz for an individual student, a group of students, or for all students who have submitted the quiz for grading.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz you want to grade and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Select the submissions you want to grade:
   • To select one or more submissions, next to the submissions, select the check box.
   • To select all submissions, in the table heading row, select the check box. All submissions are selected.
4. Under Options, click Grade. A confirmation message appears.
5. Click OK. The Submissions screen updates and the submissions are graded.

Resetting Quiz Attempts and Grades | Top

If you need to have a student retake a quiz, you can choose to reset a particular attempt, or you can remove all previous attempts. The attempts are removed from the Submissions screen and the grades of any reset quizzes are removed from Manage Students .

You can:

• reset all attempts for a submission.
• reset individual attempts.

Resetting All Attempts for Submissions | Top

When you reset a submission, all attempts for that submission are reset.

Warning: When you reset attempts, the student data associated with the attempt cannot be retrieved.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. From the Quizzes/Surveys screen, locate the quiz for which you want to reset attempts and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Select the submissions you want to reset:
   • To select one or more submissions, next to the submissions, select the check box.
   • To select all submissions, in the table heading row, select the check box. All submissions are selected.
4. Under Options, click Reset. A warning message appears.
5. Click OK. A second warning message appears.
6. Click OK. The Submissions screen updates and the selected submissions are reset.

Resetting Individual Attempts | Top

Warning: When you reset attempts, the student data associated with the attempt cannot be retrieved.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz for which you want to reset an attempt and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Locate the submission for which you want to reset an attempt and, under No., click the attempt. The View Submission screen appears.
4. Click Reset attempt.
   • If the availability period has not expired yet, a message appears warning that the quiz is still available to the student.
     1. To proceed, click OK. A second warning message appears.
     2. Click OK. A final warning message appears.
     3. Click OK. The Submissions screen appears and the attempt is reset.
   • If the availability period has expired, a warning message appears.
     1. Click OK. A final warning message appears.
     2. Click OK. The Submissions screen appears and the attempt is reset.

Assigning Bonus or Penalty Points | Top

You can award additional, discretionary bonus or penalty points to a student.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz and click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Locate the student to whom you want to award or penalize points and, under No., click the attempt. The View Submission screen appears.
4. In the Quiz score adjustment text box, enter the points you want to add or subtract from the total:
   • To award bonus points,enter a positive integer.
   • To penalize points, enter a negative integer.
5. Click Update grade. The Submissions screen appears and the integer is added or subtracted from the student's grade.

Submitting an "In progress" Quiz for Grading | Top

If a student has opened a quiz but has not yet submitted it, on the Submissions screen, the quiz appears as In progress. You can submit quizzes that are In progress on the student's behalf.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz you want to submit and, next to Results, click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. For more information on the Submissions screen, see About Submissions.
3. Locate the student whose attempt you want to submit and, under No., click the attempt. The View Submission screen appears.
4. Click Submit quiz.
   • If the availability period has expired, the Submissions screen appears and the attempt is submitted.
   • If the availability period has not yet expired, a message appears warning that the quiz is still available to the student. To proceed, click OK. The Submissions screen appears and the attempt is submitted.

Submitting and Grading a Quiz that is "Not taken" | Top

If a student completed a quiz offline and submitted it for grading outside of WebCT, you can submit the quiz on the student's behalf and enter a grade. The Status of this quiz will be Not taken.

1. From the Course Menu, click Quiz. The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
2. Locate the quiz you want to submit and, next to Results, click Submissions. The Submissions screen appears. See About Submissions for more information on the Submissions screen.
3. Locate the student whose attempt you want to submit and, under No., click "---". The View Submission screen appears.
4. For Question 1, in the Override score text box, enter a score. Note: For question sets, first select as many questions from the set as is required and then enter a score for each selected question. The text below the question set title indicates how many questions must be selected.
5. If you want to comment on the response, in the Comments text box, enter your comments.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each question in the quiz.
7. If you want to provide any general feedback to the student, in the General quiz comments text box, enter your comments.
8. Click Submit quiz.
   • If the availability period has expired, the Submissions screen appears and the attempt is graded. The total score for the student is displayed under Grade.
   • If the availability period has not expired yet, a message appears warning that the quiz is still available to the student. To proceed, click OK. The Submissions screen appears and the attempt is graded. The total score for the student is displayed under Grade.

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