Overview

Have you ever noticed an incorrectly keyed question or mistake in your quiz after students have already submitted?  This guide will show you how to give credit to a question for your whole class or to individual students.

Instructions

From the drop-down menu next to the Quiz, select Grade.  The next three steps are done regardless of the type of credit you are giving.

Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace with the dropdown menu associated with "Quiz 1" expanded out. There is a red box around the "Grade" option in the dropdown menu.

On the next screen, click on the Questions tab.

Top of the Quiz Grade page showing the currently active tab of "Users" along with the tabs "Attempts" and "Questions". There is a red box around the "Questions" tab.

On the Questions tab you will have two choices.

  1. Grade Individual Responses:  this will allow you to give credit to a student's individual attempt for a particular question. 
  2. Update All Attempts: allows you to give credit to the whole class for a particular question or accept more than one correct answer for a question.

Labeled screenshot of the Questions tab of the Quiz Grade page, showing the radial options of 1. "Grade Individual Responses" and 2. "Update All Attempts". Three questions titled "Question 1", "Question 2", and "Question 3" are shown below the radial options.

Grade Individual Responses

To give credit to individual responses for a question, select Grade Individual Responses and click on the question in which you would like to give credit.  You would select this option if you were giving credit to a select number of students and not the whole class.

On the following screen you will see how each student answered each question.  If the question was answered incorrectly, you will see a red X next to their wrong answer choice.  Correct answers will display a blue arrow pointing to the correct answer.

If you would like to give credit to a student for this question, enter in the number of points in the Score field.  

Finally, click Save.

Student Ben Franklin's response to Question 2, a multiple choice question. The student answered incorrectly and there is an arrow pointing to the correct answer. There is also a red box around the "Score" field, which shows a 0 out of 1, and a "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

Update All Attempts

To allow any changes in credit to apply to all students, select Update All Attempts and click on the questions in which you would like to give credit.

Questions tab of the Quiz Grade page showing red boxes around the selected option of "Update All Attempts" as well as the link for "Question 2".

On the next screen, there are four key areas:

  1. A Question Responses area that displays answer distribution and the correct answer indicated by a blue arrow.
  2. Give to all attempts ____ points:  any point total entered here will be given to all students regardless of answer choice.
  3. Give to attempts with answer "____"____ points:  the answer choice selected will be credited the amount of points you enter here.
  4. Click Save

Labeled screenshot of the Update All Attempts screen for "Question 2", with 1. the histogram of user responses with an arrow pointing to the correct answer, 2. a selected radial option to "Give to all attempts _ points", 3. an unselected radial option the "Give to attempts with answer _ _ points", and 4. "Save" and "Go Back to Questions" buttons at the bottom of the page.