Ooops! Change Scoring for Quiz Question

Here's how an instructor can ...

• change scoring on a specific QUESTION, after the quiz has been taken
• automatically correct all student grading for that specific question
  

[Please note that this works for multiple choice and true/false questions, but NOT with "ordering" questions.]

1. In the Quiz List, click on the name of the quiz your students have already taken.
2. Click on the [Grade Quiz] icon (yellow ruler with green checkmark)
3. On the next screen, click on the [Questions] tab.
4. Click to choose "Update all attempts"

5.  Each question in the quiz is listed under the [Question] tab.

NOTE: If any question was changed after ANY student took the quiz, scroll down to look for the ORIGINAL version of the question(s), under the heading "Questions that are not on the quiz anymore"

• Clicking on a question brings you to the question, with a summary of student responses.
• Click on the title for each question you need to change scoring on, including old versions of the same question, if necessary.

Under each version, you will have the option to "give all attempts ___ points" or "give to selected choices ____ points."

This is where the instructor can correct the problem with quiz scoring. For example, if the instructor accidentally flagged the wrong answer in the quiz as correct, D2L would have erroneously given points to the students who chose the wrong answer.

The instructor may open the erroneously-marked version of the question, change the scoring to give the wrong answer 0 points, and give full points to the correct answer.




Don't forget to save!!!

Quiz - Auto Grade

Sometimes, a student's quiz attempt gets submitted, but the server doesn't have a chance to do all the calculations to automatically calculate the grade.

Possible causes:

• student closes D2L window or browser right after submitting the quiz
• student's internet service provider drops the connection soon after quiz submission
• D2L server error (rare)
  

In any of these cases, the instructor will see a blank or a dash (-) instead of a score.

To easily "push" the automatic grading process through for the quiz attempt the instructor can:

1. Click on Quizzes in the D2L main navigation bar
2. In the Quiz List, click on [Grade] (yellow ruler + green checkmark icon) to the far right of the appropriate Quiz
3. Click on [attempt #] under the name of the student in the list
4. Click on [Auto Grade]
5. Click on [Save]

Quiz Stats: 500 Error

This is a known issue in D2L. While we're not sure when Desire2Learn will fix the bug, it's helpful to know how to fix the cause of the error!

Problem description: Instructor receives a 500 Error when attempting to view statistics for a Quiz.

Solution: Check to see whether any student has a quiz attempt that is ungraded.





An ungraded Quiz will cause the 500 Error because D2L cannot calculate statistics when any attempt has a "null" score -- an absence of a grade. (The null score can be caused by an interruption occurring while a quiz is being submitted, for example, losing network connectivity. )

To grade the ungraded Quiz attempt, follow these steps:

1. Click on the "Grade Quiz" icon.
2. Click on the Attempt for the student whose quiz was not graded.
3. Click the "Auto-Grade" button.
4. Click Save.

Quiz Stats should now be available without the 500 Error.