Farewell to 'Review' Quizzes: Multiple Attempts on Quizzes
The Quiz Generator in CoursePlus is a powerful tool with many options to help faculty assess student work and give feedback. One of those options has long been to set up graded vs. non-graded (or "review") quizzes. "Review" quizzes have been problematic in some situations, however. Students could take them as many times as they wanted, but often ended up with incomplete answer sets because they forgot to finish, or finished but wanted to check in on the quiz one more time and wound up starting with a new copy of the quiz, wiping out their previous answers.
The Quiz Generator no longer treats "graded" and "review" quizzes differently. All quizzes are handled in the same way and you can specify that students get one or more attempts on a quiz, even if that quiz is part of the student's final grade. (Multiple attempts on quizzes that are part of the student's final grade has been a longtime request from some faculty.) You can have a "review"-style quiz that is not part of the student's final grade in a course which can be attempted 50 times by each student. You can have a quiz that is part of the student's final grade in a course which can be attempted only once, or three, or ten times. Students can have access to a quiz only once per attempt, or multiple times per attempt, just as they could previously.
If students are allowed multiple attempts on a quiz, and have completed an attempt on the quiz, they are asked if they want to take the quiz over again, starting from scratch and eliminating any existing answers and score for that quiz. If the student says "yes," then the student begins a new attempt as if they had never taken the quiz before.
The default setup in the Quiz Generator is still a quiz that students can acccess once and only once, and that is part of the student's grade in the class. Existing quizzes have not been altered in any way. Any quiz that was previously flagged as a "Review" quiz in the Quiz Generator is now simply a quiz that is not part of the student's final grade in the class and which can be accessed 99 times by each student. You are, of course, free to alter this setup as you see fit.
Additionally:
- The log of activity for a quiz now shows if a student switches from one tab or browser window to another while taking a quiz.
- The total time taken to complete a quiz is now displayed on the Excel file of all responses and grades for a quiz.
- The Excel file of all responses and scores for a quiz no longer generates a warning from Excel that the file might be corrupt, and has fixed some rare issues where score values would appear in scientific notation in Excel.
- A bug where grading feedback on an individual question could be deleted if all students were given credit for a question after feedback had been entered has been fixed.
We hope you find these changes to the Quiz Generator to be useful!