Help! I Need To Re-Grade My Brightspace Quiz!

We’ve all been there.  Selected the wrong answer as the correct one and had to go back and fix the issue.  In recent months the Wentworth community has switched from the Blackboard to Brightspace learning management system.  In Blackboard, changes to quizzes after students already submitted were easy with the “regrade existing attempts” option that would re-grade all of the students quizzes again after changes were made but BrightSpace is a bit different.  Here’s the run down on Re-Grading Quizzes in Brightspace.

As an Instructor, while grading a quiz that students have submitted, you noticed that a multiple choice question has “A” as the correct answer but it should be “B”.  You can use the following workflow and “Give attempts with answer B” 1 point, click update and save.  However you must also ““Give attempts with answer A” 0 points, click update and save.  This will award points to students who chose the correct answer and take away points from the students who chose the incorrect answer.  You can use this same workflow for the True/False questions easily.  Here is the workflow for the two step process to removing the points from one answer and awarding them to another.

For updating the scores of students who have already taken the quiz:

1. Go to Quick Tools on the navigation bar
2. Go to the Quizzes Tool from the drop down menu
3. Click the context menu next to the quiz name (the downward arrow)
4. Click Grade
5. Click the Questions tab
6. Select the ‘Update all Attempts’ button
7. Click on the question name of the question you wish to update the score
8. Under ‘Grading Type’, choose what you would like to do. You can give all attempts a certain number of points, or give attempts with a certain answer a specific number of points, and then press save at the bottom of the screen to update the points for all attempted quizzes.

When re-grading a quiz there are some key factors to keep in mind.

What can you do:

1. You can automatically award points to students who answered multiple choice and true/false questions correctly in a quiz.
2. You can automatically take away points from students who answered multiple choice and true/false questions incorrectly.
3. You can automatically award points to students who answered correctly on matching, ordering, and multi-select questions in a quiz.

What can’t you do:

1. You can’t change the point values of quiz questions after students submit the quiz.
2. You cannot automatically take away points from students who answered incorrectly on matching, ordering, and multi-select questions in a quiz because you would need to input every wrong answer selection to automatically take away points for the various answers.
3. You can’t award or take away points from students easily for fill in the blank, short answer,  multi short answer, arithmetic, or significant figures because you would need to know all of the answers that the students chose to add those in to award points.  We suggest that manually re-grading each of the quizzes for these questions is the BEST solution.

Don’t forget to change the question in the Question Library if the quiz question is housed there, otherwise future quizzes will have the same issue moving forward.

 

Check out this video for a step by step, annotated process on updating the scores of students who have already taken the quiz.