Add, edit, and delete questions

After you add the first question to a test, select the plus sign wherever you want to add another question, enter text, or upload a file. You can add as many text blocks and files as you want.

 

If you add questions, you can't enable anonymous grading.

The top right-hand side menu lets you edit, align with goal or delete a question. The plus button lets you add another question.

Students see the content just as you see it, without the editing options or the correct answers.

More on adding text and files

To modify questions, open its menu. Some options are unavailable after students open the assessment.

You can edit or delete any information on questions before students open an assessment.

  • Score pill — Change the point value for the question. 
  • Align with goal — Align goals with individual questions to help your institution measure achievement. Students can view information for the goals you align with assessments and questions so they know your expectations.
  • Duplicate  — quickly copy an existing question within the same assessment (test, assignment, form) or in a question bank.

After students open an assessment

You can edit the text of most questions and answers, even after students have made submissions. For example, you may have chosen the wrong answer, found a typo, or want to adjust points or scoring options. You can make a change for all students to see and automatically update all grades.

Your update affects existing attempts, attempts in progress, and subsequent submissions. Student grades are updated, but the new grades may not appear immediately. Students see their updated grades in their activity streams.

If you make changes while students have the assessment open, they won't see the changes. They need to refresh the page or submit the assessment and open it again.

After students open the assessment, you can't make these changes:

  • Add new questions and answers
  • Delete a question
  • Delete answers in Matching and Multiple Choice questions
  • Change the number of blanks in a Fill in the Blanks question
  • Move the content, such as switch the order of questions, answers, or additional content
  • Add or remove questions from a question pool or delete a pool from an assessment

You can't change the points an individual student earned for an automatically graded question.

After students open the assessment or make submissions, you can make these changes:

  • Edit the text of questions and answers
  • Edit the point value
    • New grades are recalculated for all previously submitted assessments
  • Give everyone full credit for a question
  • Change which answers are correct
  • Change the scoring options for Multiple Choice and Matching questions
  • Align questions with goals, from the assessment only

In an assessment or a student's submission, open a question's menu and select Edit/Regrade to make changes. You receive a warning after you save your changes if student submissions exist and regrading will occur.

If you edit a question in a question pool, the edits appear everywhere the question is used. For example, if you change the correct answer, the question is regraded in all assessments where the question is used. The same is true for edits you make in a source assessment's questions. Those edits affect all the question pools where the question appears.

The regraded score is applied to the attempt score. If you manually change the grade for the assessment in the gradebook, the regraded score doesn't change the override score.

The top right-hand side menu lets you edit or regrade a question, or align question with your goals.

Give full credit

You can give everyone full credit for a question you didn't explain clearly or doesn't accurately reflect your lecture or textbook material.

After you select Edit/Regrade in a question's menu, you can select the checkbox for Give full credit for question. After you give full credit, you can clear the check box to revert to the automatic grade or a previously assigned manual grade.

Your update affects existing attempts, attempts in progress, and subsequent submissions. Student grades are updated, but the new grades or reversal may not appear immediately.

When you give full credit, you can’t change student scores for an individual question. You can override a student’s assessment score to adjust the points if needed.

More on overriding grades

Tick on the box to give all students full credit for a question.

Student view of full credit

After grading is completed and you show students the correct answers, they can see which questions you've awarded full credit. Full credit given appears next to the grade pill and is also noted in the answers section.

This is how students view full credit given for a question.

Edit files within questions

You can edit settings for the files you've added to questions. Select the file in the editor and then select Edit Attachment in the row of editor functions. You can add a display name and alternative text.

A purple pencil that lets you edit files within questions.

You can also choose whether to insert the file as a link in the editor or to embed the file directly so it appears inline with other content you've added.

Reorder questions, text, and files

Questions are numbered automatically in the order you add them. The question numbers update when you reorder. Before students open the test, you can reorder the elements of your test.

Edit a test. Hover over a test item to access the Drag to reorder. Drag the question, text block, or file to a new location.

Reorder icon right below the menu on the top right-hand corner.

You can also use your keyboard to move an item.

  1. Tab to an item's Drag to reorder button.
  2. Press Enter to activate move mode.
  3. Use the arrow keys to choose a location.
  4. Press Enter to drop the item in the new location.

Edit, reorder, and delete tests

You can make changes to existing tests and change where they appear on your Course Content page. Be aware that if you change an existing test that students can access, some students may have started submissions.

Select Drag to reorder in a test's row to move it to a new location. You can also move a test into a folder.

In a test's row, open the menu to access the Edit and Delete options.

The menu on the top right-hand side opens a menu that lets you edit, start a conversation, see student’s activity, analyze questions or delete tests.

You can change the test's due date and grade unit at any time, even after students have made submissions. Students' statuses, scores, and grade units will update also.

Delete tests

You can delete a test from your course and if no student submissions exist, the gradebook item is also deleted. For tests with submissions, you must confirm that you want to permanently remove the test, all submissions, and grades from your course.

Or, hide the test from students to preserve the submissions and the scores in the gradebook. Students can't access hidden tests on the Course Content page or on their grades pages even if you've graded submissions.

Other deletion considerations

You can’t delete the source tests for question pools from these areas:

  • Course Content page
  • Gradebook views

You also can't delete these items:

  • Folders that contain source tests for question pools
  • Question banks used in question pools