Grading Questions on a Test

For each test, you can choose to grade all responses to a specific question. You can move through submissions, and view and score the same question for each student. You can save time as you concentrate only on the answers submitted for one question. You can see how all students responded, and provide immediate feedback about how the group performed on that particular question. Also, you can grade by question when you want to revisit a question that requires a score adjustment for all or many students.

At the same time, you can grade questions with student names hidden. All test attempts remain in Needs Grading status until you’ve graded all of the responses for all of the questions.

In the Grade Center, access a test column’s menu and select Grade Questions.

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On the Needs Grading page, access a test’s menu and select Grade by Question.

On the Grade Questions page, you can filter the questions by status: Graded, Needs Grading, or In Progress. You may also select the check box for Grade with User Names Hidden if needed.

1. For each question, select the number in the Responses column.
2. On the Grade Responses page, expand the Question Information link to view the question. If you didn’t previously select anonymous grading, select Hide User Names. Select OK in the pop-up window.
3. Select Edit next to the score for a student.
4. Type a grade in the Score box. Optionally, add Response Feedback specific to the individual question. The feedback box only appears for certain question types, such as Essays. Select Submit.
5. Optionally, if you associated a rubric with Essay, Short Answer, or File Response questions, select View Rubric to grade the question with the rubric.
6. After grading all student responses, select Back to Questions to return to the Grade Questions page.

You can Give Full Credit for all test submissions for the question you’re viewing. Subsequent submissions are given full credit as well. After you give full credit, you can Remove Full Credit to revert to the automatic grade or to a previously assigned manual grade.

1. Expand the Question Information link to view the question. If you didn’t previously select anonymous grading, select Hide User Names. Select OK in the pop-up window.
2. Select Give Full Credit to assign full credit for the question -OR- Remove Full Credit.
3. Select Back to Questions to return to the Grade Questions page.

On the Test or Survey Canvas, you can add, edit, and delete questions. You can also add question sets or random blocks, reorder questions, and edit a test or survey’s information before students make submissions.

After a test has submissions, you can’t add a question, modify the number of questions in a question set, or change a random block definition or options.

Even after you deploy a test or survey and students make submissions, you can delete questions. All affected test submissions are regraded and all affected survey results are updated. The question numbers update automatically. If test submissions exist and you delete a question, the question is removed from the test, along with any possible points earned. Test attempts are regraded as if the question wasn’t included in the test.

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