Manually Regrade Quizzes

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byAmy Spielmaker

This guide covers how to manually regrade student quiz attempts. You might need to do this if a quiz question had an error that cannot be fixed by automatic regrading. For example, if the question had no correct answers or if you need to change the question type.

Before starting on this guide, check if automatic regrading is an option for your problem. If your quiz is multiple choice, then there's a good chance automatic regrading will work for you.

Steps

Following these steps involves finding attempts from students who had the question on their quiz (and were penalized for answering it "incorrectly") and overriding the mark on that question to give them credit.

  1. Go to the quiz.
  2. Click the gear icon then select Grades, under "Results."
  3. Change the following report settings:
    • For the "Attempts from" dropdown, make sure enrolled users who have attempted the quiz is selected
    • For "Attempts that are," only leave Finished checked.
    • Check the box for Show at most one finished attempt per user.
    • For the "Points for each question" dropdown (under "Display options"), select No.
  4. Click Show report.
  5. Scroll through the list of quiz results. When you come to a student who earned less than full credit, click on their score to open up the attempt (you can also click Review attempt under the student's name).
  6. On the attempt review page, do Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F, to type in some of the text in the question name to locate the question on the page (if it exists). Once you've found the question, if it was marked as incorrect, click Make comment or override points.
  7. In the window that pops up, change the mark field from 0 to 1. Optionally add in the "Comment" text area something like "Correct answer not present." Then click Save.
  8. Repeat steps 5-7 until you've looked at all the quiz attempts from students who earned less than full credit.

Need a faster option? Add an extra point to all quiz attempts.

Following these steps will add 1 point to everyone's score, regardless of if they had the faulty question on their quiz. It will only go up to the max value of the quiz. For example, if the quiz is worth 20 points, students who got 20/20 will still have 20/20, not 21/20.

  1. Go to the gradebook and click the Setup tab.
  2. Find the row with the quiz you want to adjust.
  3. Click the Edit dropdown then select Edit settings.
  4. In the "Grade item" section, click the Show more… link.
  5. In the "Offset" field, enter 1 (or however many points the question was worth).
  6. Click Save changes.
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