Grading a D2L Quiz

1. From the D2L Course Home page, click on [Quizzes] in the main navigation bar
2. Click on the title of the quiz in the Quiz List
3. Click on [Grade], which has a “yellow ruler + green checkmark” icon
4. Click on the [Restrict to] dropdown menu
5. Choose “All users”
6. In the list of students, you will see:

• “attempt 1” below the names of students who have completed the quiz.
• “attempt 1 (in progress)” for students who have opened the quiz, but who have not completed the submission process.
• “attempt 1 (late by xx:xx:xx)” for completed attempts that exceeded the time limit.
• "no “attempt 1” for students who have not yet opened the quiz

7. Click on [attempt 1] for the first student.
8. To grade fill-in-the-blank and essay (long answer or short answer) questions, type the points earned in the “Score” box for each question.  NOTE: D2L automatically grades multiple choice, matching, and true/false questions.
9. Scroll to the top of the screen and click on [Recalculate] to update the student’s overall quiz grade
10. Click on [Save]
11. Click on [Go back to attempts / users]
12. Repeat steps 7-11 for each student’s quiz
13. Scroll to the top of the screen and click on [Update]

D2L 9.2.1 SP3 – October 2011

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!!!

Creating a Quiz Key

The best way for an instructor to create quiz key that shows questions and corresponding correct answers:

1. set up a submission view that shows all questions and answers

2. click on the Preview Quiz icon and take the quiz yourself (getting all the answers right would be good, but otherwise you could just not answer any of the questions, so there would be no right and no wrong responses shown in the submission view afterwards)

3. submit the quiz (still in the Preview)

4. access the submission view that shows all questions and answers

5. highlight and copy all the question and answer information

6a. paste into a Word document, then upload the Word document to D2L's Content area, or save it as a .pdf and upload that to the Content area

6b. go to Content, click [New Topic], click [Create New File], and paste into the D2L HTML editor and save

Method for Specifying Quiz Question Weights has changed

Method for Specifying Quiz Question Weights has changed

As of January, 2010, the method of specifying quiz question weights for several questions was changed. Instead of a dropdown box with some percentage choices (0,20,25,33.33,40,50,60,66.67,75,80,100), weights are specified in a text box on a scale of 0 (no credit) to 100 (full credit).

This offers more flexibility, but has been a source of confusion for some instructors. The quizzing interface does not make it clear that weights are percentages ranging from 0 to 100 with up to 2 decimal places allowed. All instructors see is "Weight" and a blank box.

On behalf of the UW campuses using D2L, our hosting Utility has submited the following feature request:
1. Provide a heading of "Weight (%)," or to put a "%" sign after each weight box.
2. If possible, bring the drop down back with an "other" option that opens a blank text box where the user can enter a custom percent.

Source: [Learn@UW Utility] Service Announcements (02/12/2010)

Note: D2L Version 8.4.2

Quizzing: See student responses

Question: How can an instructor see an individual student's quiz answers on D2L?

1. In the Quiz List, click on the [ruler-&-checkmark] icon to the right of the quiz in question.
2. In the list of students that appears, click on [attempt 1] under the name of the appropriate student.
3. Scroll down on the next page to see the student's quiz with their responses.

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]

FAQ: How do I change the grading of a quiz question (e.g. after the question is changed)?

To update the grading of a question when it is changed:

1. click on the grading icon for the quiz (yellow ruler with green check mark),
2. click on the questions tab, 
3. click on "Update all attempts" (as of June 2011)
4. click on the question that needs to be changed,
5. click again on the grading icon on the right (yellow ruler with green check mark).
6. Check the box "Give to attempts with the following answer [1] points" and
7. insert 1 or the correct value of the item in the box.

You will get a modification report looking like this:

Date: Sep 14, 2009 9:46 PM
Modified By: Tanya Joosten
Action: Attempts with the answer below received 1 points

http://kb.doit.wisc.edu/luwmad/page.php?id=3220

Fill in the blank quiz update

August 2009

D2L has updated the fill in the blank function in order to allow for text before the blank that appears in the centers AS WELL AS after. Previously, there was only one text box that would allow text to appear before the fill in the blank box.

It is important to know this because if you do not have text after the box, D2L will throw an error saying that you have not completed all required fields (see below)

Errors

There were 1 error(s) found in the information you submitted:

* Field is required.

You must delete this text box by clicking on the trash can next to the text field. See the red circle in the image below.

Reset Quiz - Giving the student another chance

CAUTION: This operation completely wipes out all record of the student's quiz attempt. Please be sure that is what you really want to do!

To reset a student's quiz attempt (which will allow them to take it all over again):



1. In the Quiz List, click [Grade ...], which appears as a yellow ruler icon .  This will take you to the Grade Quiz area.


2. Mark the check box next to the attempt for the individual that you want to reset.





3. Then, click on the trash can. A warning will appear notifying you that the attempt is being reset.



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