Manage exam activity; adjust scoring; & report on your exams.
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Monitor & Manage Exam Activity
- The resulting page will show you which learners have started or completed an exam, their points, start, update and submission dates, etc.
- This will show you an item by item view of the learner's progress on an exam.
- You can optionally add more columns to view the item text, grade comments (if applicable), etc.
- If a learner submitted an exam but you wish to reopen it for them to continue, you can do so here.
- You can optionally override the time the learner has left to complete the exam.
- If a learner did not submit their exam, an administrator may do so from here. Click 'Submit' in the modal that opens.
- If you wish to delete an exam post, it must have no activity. Deleting each learner's progress record can let you delete a post (and hence an exam). This should likely only be used in test cases.
- For completed exams, quickly jump to view the Learner Feedback Report.
Viewing Student Scores
There are two ways to view student scores.
- Navigate to Admin>Manage Exams, and select the relevant exam.
- Click on the Posts tab, and from the cog on the right side, select View Activity for the appropriate post.
- You can show or hide different columns, click on a column header to sort the list, adjust the number of learners shown on the screen, search for a specific learner and download the results as a CSV.
- You can also access student scores from a learning event where an exam is a posted resource. From a learning event content page, scroll down to “Posted Exams” and click on view results. This will take you to the Assessment Activity page.
Grading Exams
When users are assigned as graders on an exam, they will be able to access exams to grade from Admin > Manage Exams. On the Exam Dashboard they should click on the Exams to Grade tab (this may also be their default view depending on their group and role permissions in Elentra). Users will see a list of any exams where they are assigned as a grader.
By clicking on an exam title the user will be taken to count of exams they have not started grading, are in progress, or are completed. Graders can switch from grading by student to grading by question, depending on their preference. Clicking on any status card (e.g. Not Started) will show a list of the exams that remain in each category.
By clicking on a student name (or question number if grading by question), the user will be taken to a screen where they can view exam answers and provide feedback and a grade. If a 'Correct Answer' was provided with the question, the grader will be able to see it to use as a guide when grading. Graders can also type feedback that will be visible to the learner depending on the exam post settings.
Caution: There is no auto-save feature when grading exams. Be sure to click the Save button after grading a question; or regularly click on "Save All" at the top of the grading screen to save all grading progress.
Exam Scoring & Adjustments
Users may have reason to adjust the scoring of an exam after it has been written (e.g., decide a question was confusingly worded).The Adjust Exam Scoring tab will be visible to staff:admin by default, and staff:pcoorindators and faculty:directors for exams they are specifically permissioned to.
Note: Adjusting the exam scoring will impact all posts of an exam! If an exam was used in 2023 and again in 2024 and you adjust the scores in 2024 you will also impact the 2023 exam post and its results.
If you adjust the scoring on an exam, and have released feedback for an exam post, learners will see a note reflecting the changes.
If you have linked an exam to a gradebook assessment, adjustments made to the exam scoring will automatically get reflected in the gradebook assessment (and in the learners' view of their grade if it is displayed to them).
Adjusting Exam Scoring
- Click 'Mark Correct' to set a previously incorrect answer to be correct.
- Pay close attention to the words on the buttons! Answers that are correct are shown with a filled in radio button (not those with a green button beside them).
- In the example below, 'A' is the correct answer (despite the red button beside it). If B was also a correct answer, one would click 'Mark Correct'
Edit the point value for an item
- Enter the new point value and click 'Update Question Points'
- This will update the total point value and adjust learner scores accordingly.
Throw Out Questions
- This will remove the question from the exam entirely. The exam's total point value will decrease.
Make Bonus
- This will give bonus credit to any learner who correctly answered the question.
- When viewed through the Exams module, the total points for the exam will decrease by the question point value, but the learners' points will remain the same. (The denominator decreases while the numerator remains the same.)
- In effect, a learner can score over 100% on an exam if you make a question a bonus.
- Note that if an exam is attached to a gradebook assessment and you make an item a bonus, if you display the exam score numerically in the gradebook, the denominator will actually stay the same as the original points total, however, the learners' points totals will be multiplied to account for their bonus points.
Give Full Credit
- This will give full credit for the item to every learner. The exam point total stays the same, and learners' points will increase (assuming they originally got the item incorrect). (The denominator remains consistent while the numerator potentially increases.)
Exam History
Exam Reports
Navigate to Admin>Manage Exams and navigate to the exam you want to report on. Open the selected exam and click on the Reports tab to see a selection of available reports.
Curriculum Tags Report: Filter by curriculum tag, exam post and learner (optional) to view learner performance across curriculum tags. You can also view one learner’s performance compared to the class average (can be turned on or off).
Item Analysis Report: View a variety of statistics relevant to an exam post. View results on the screen or download as a CSV.
Learner Comments Report: View a compilation of all learner comments from an exam post. The report shows questions, responses, and comments.
Learner Responses Report: Download a list of all learner responses (by question number and point value) from an exam post.
Print View: Access a printable copy of the exam including questions and correct answers.
Score Report: See an overview of learner performance on the exam. Modify columns to view as needed and download the results as a CSV.
Summary Report: Generate a report that includes exam performance, curriculum tag performance, the lowest 27% of learners, and item analysis.
Please note that the upper/lower 27% calculations are only calculated on the first submission of an exam. If you allow users multiple attempts on an exam, the calculation won't be accurate.
Learner Curriculum Tags Report: This tool allows you to release exam results, based on performance on specific curriculum tags, to the learner. You can customize when learners can access results, which tag sets they should see, and to which learners this applies. If you set this up, the learner will see an additional 'Category' tab when viewing their submitted exams and if they click on it will see a personalized report showing their performance for specific curriculum tags. Please note that you must set a release start date for this report to become visible to learners.
