Adjusting the Final Score When Multiple Attempts were Allowed
You have a few options for adjusting a student’s score on a test where multiple attempts were allowed:
Manually entering a score for the assignment
Changing the way retakes are weighted
Adding or removing points from a student’s final score
Note that the assignment has to be closed before you can do any of these things. That means either that the student has completed all attempts, the due date has passed, or the assignment has been manually closed (either by you, or by the student clicking the Turn in assignment button).
Note
If you want to add an adjustment for the whole class—either a bonus or a reduction—see Enter a Class-Wide Adjustment.
If desired, you can ignore the scoring for the student’s attempt(s) and just enter the overall score you think the student should have.
Navigate to the appropriate Student Assignment Details screen, as described in Navigate to the Student Assignment Details Screen.
Click the link labeled final grade options.
The system displays a pop-up.
Select the radio button labeled Set manually to.
Enter a point value or a grade in the corresponding text box. (For details on which type of values you can enter, refer to the Values That Can Be Entered section.)
Click Save.
If a student took the test more than once, the overall grade typically will be determined by the settings you chose in the Retakes area of the screen you use to create and edit the assignment. (These settings are described in Retakes.) However, if you want one student’s grade to be calculated in a different way from the rest of the class, you can make changes using this procedure.
To change the way retakes are weighted for a particular student:
Navigate to the appropriate Student Assignment Details screen, as described in Navigate to the Student Assignment Details Screen.
Click the link labeled final grade options.
The system displays a pop-up.
Specify how the grade should be calculated by choosing one of the following options:
average of all grades received
highest grade received
last grade received
Click Save.
If you want to make an across-the-board adjustment to a student’s score by adding points or subtracting points, use this procedure.
Navigate to the appropriate Student Assignment Details screen, as described in Navigate to the Student Assignment Details Screen.
Click the link labeled final grade options.
The system displays a pop-up.
Select the checkbox labeled Adjust the calculated final grade by and enter a point value in the text box provided. Note that you can enter a negative value by using the minus sign.
If this checkbox is grayed out, that means that you already have manually given the student a grade—in this case you may want to simply adjust the grade that you previously entered (in the Set manually to field).
Click Save.
The system adjusts the score by the number that you specified.