Re-grading Quiz questions

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At times, a quiz may need to be re-graded. For example, if a wrong answer option was marked as correct for one of the questions on a quiz. The grades will need to be corrected.

Note: Before re-grading any questions or tests, wait until all students have completed the quiz.

The following steps work well for true/false and multiple-choice questions. If you need to re-grade other question types please contact learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca for guidance.

  1. Click on the drop-down menu arrow next to Submit in the top menu bar and choose Quizzes.

     

  2. Select the down arrow next to the quiz to be revised and select Grade.

  3. Select the Questions tab and to correct all submissions, select Update All Attempts.

  4. To re-grade, a question, select the question from the list of questions in the quiz. At this stage, you have a number of options.

    1. You can give all attempts a specified number of points.

      OR

    2. You can give those with a specific answer a specified number of points.

  5. Make the desired changes and click on Save. You will be prompted to confirm your changes before the re-grade is performed.

  6. (optional) Enter a comment.

  7. In the confirmation window, click Yes to save the changes to the grade values for all attempts.

  8. Repeat steps 4-7 again if necessary (e.g. to give incorrect answers zero points).

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