Purpose
This article discusses the steps to take if quiz questions are found to be incorrect or invalid after students have completed the quiz.
Background
Occasionally, you may have one or more quiz questions that are incorrect or invalid. You may discover it after your students have taken the quiz.
Examples of incorrect or invalid quiz questions:
The wrong answer was accidentally listed as the correct one
The question wording may be unclear, making it a difficult question that you’d like to throw out or fix.
Procedure
If your students have already taken the quiz, it's still not too late to fix the issue. Here are the options available.
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1. Correct Problematic Questions & Regrade the Quiz
1. Correct Problematic Questions & Regrade the Quiz
Log onto your course homepage and click on the quiz activity.
Click on the Questions tab at the top.
Locate the problematic question on the question name.
NOTE:
Only one example is given below. Please contact us if you need assistance with this process.
For this example, we’re using a Multiple Choice question. On the Editing question page, scroll down to the answers section.
If we want to “throw out” the question. Assign every answer a grade of 100%. Students who answered the question will receive credit for it. Students who skipped the question will not get credit.
If we want to fix the question so that the answer is now correctly selected, We change the settings so the correct answer gets 100%, all incorrect answers get “none.”
Once the adjustments to the answers are made, scroll down and click Save changes.
At the Quiz page, click on Results to view the list of quiz attempts.
On the attempt results page, scroll down to the student attempts and put a checkmark in the small box for the impacted students or click the checkbox at the top to select all students.
Underneath the listed attempts, click the Regrade selected attempts button or click Regrade all at the top.
Once the regrade has run, you will receive a successful notice. The more attempts you have and/or the more questions you have changed, the longer it will take to run the regrade. When it is done, click the Continue button to return to the Results page.
Scroll down to review the attempt. You can see which questions were impacted by the regrade. In this example, question 3 is the one we updated.
The strike-through shows the previous grade.
2. Review the Responses and Manually Adjust the Question Points
2. Review the Responses and Manually Adjust the Question Points
Click on the quiz on your course homepage and click on the Results tab to view the list of student attempts.
Locate the student in question and click Review attempt under their name.
Locate the quiz question with the issue. Underneath the correct answer, click on the Make comment or override points link.
Enter comments and adjust the points accordingly.
Scroll down and click the Save button.
There will now be an additional line under Response history indicating the changes you’ve made. The points for this student’s quiz have now been updated. You may need to refresh the page to see the changes take place.
3. Manually Update Each Student’s Grade in the Gradebook
3. Manually Update Each Student’s Grade in the Gradebook
If you don’t want to choose from option 1 or 2, you can manually update the student scores in the gradebook.
Click on Grades on your course home page.
Locate the quiz item on the Grader report screen.
Click on each student's “cell” of the gradebook that corresponds with that quiz and update the student grade, as needed.