Quiz feedback can come in a variety of forms. You can add question-level feedback for all students when you create questions in the Question Library, or enter specific feedback for a student at the attempt or question level when manually grading an attempt. In order for students to see this feedback, you need to set up a Quiz Result Display that includes this feedback.
Publish Students' Quiz Attempts
In order for students to see any information about their completed quiz, you will need to publish the quiz results. You can set your quiz up to automatically publish or you can manually publish the results. We recommend only automatically publishing quiz results if you do not need to manually review or grade responses.
- From you VIULearn course homepage, select Assessment in the course navigation bar. From the dropdown menu, select Quizzes.
- Click the downward arrow next to the quiz you would like to publish. From the dropdown menu, select Grade.
- By default, VIULearn will only display 20 students per page. In order to release student's feedback all at once, you will want all the students to be displayed on the same page. To change how many students are displayed per page, scroll down and click the per page input field. From the dropdown menu, select either 100 or 200 per page to get all your students on the same page.
- Select all the students on the page by clicking the checkbox next to the First Name, Last Name column.
- Click the Publish Feedback button.
- Click the blue Yes button to confirm.
Set Up Quiz Result Display
The default display will show students their score on an automatically graded quiz but no other information. If you want students to be able to review the questions on the quiz, this can be done easily by editing the Evaluation & Feedback options. If you need more complex behavior for your display, that is when you will need to either customize or add an additional quiz result view.
Students will only see one quiz result view at a time for their quiz, but the VIULearn Quiz Tool allows you to set up additional views so that you can control when students see what information. Rather than having an expiration date or time, each view has a start date and time and students will see only the most recently released view.
- Select Assessment in the course navigation bar and choose Quizzes.
- Click on the name of your quiz to open the editing screen.
- Click the Evaluation & Feedback heading.
- Click Customize Quiz Result Displays.
- Click Additional View at the bottom of the screen to create a new quiz result view.
- Underneath the Display Date heading, set the date and time you want students to see this view.
- We recommend not enabling the "A limited amount of time (in minutes) after submission" setting unless you have first consulted with a Learning Technology Support Specialist about how this setting works.
- We recommend not enabling the "A limited amount of time (in minutes) after submission" setting unless you have first consulted with a Learning Technology Support Specialist about how this setting works.
- You can add some general information or feedback in the Custom Message box which will appear for all students or leave this field blank.
- Enable the Display attempt grade for evaluated questions setting if you would like students to be able to see their overall score on the quiz.
- If you would like students to be able to see and review the questions on the quiz, click the input field underneath the Questions heading and select your preferred option.
- If you choose to display the quiz questions, you will then be able to choose if you wish to show the correct answers to the displayed questions and if you wish to show the learner's grade for the displayed questions
- We recommend not including the class average or score distribution if your additional view will be visible before all students have completed their quiz attempt in order to preserve the anonymity of individual students' scores.
- Once you have finished editing, click the blue Create button.
- Click the blue OK button once you are done editing or creating additional views.
- Once you have finished editing the quiz, click the blue Save and Close button.
Written feedback in Quizzes can be set at the attempt level, the question level, or the answer-option level. Feedback left at the attempt level from the grading screen is visible in every submission view, even if you do not choose to show students any other information about the quiz.
Feedback added at the question or answer option level is only visible if you have allowed students to review the quiz questions in the quiz result display.
Question and answer feedback can be set up when you create your questions, or can be added during grading if you want to give personalized feedback to a specific learner.
Tips for Question Level Feedback
Do not repeat feedback in the question option and overall feedback boxes. Students only see one feedback field per question with the overall question feedback listed first, followed by answer-level feedback for every answer they selected.
When adding feedback for a specific answer option, keep in mind that students will not see this feedback in line with that option. Add any context information needed to understand the feedback when it appears below the question instead.
Because quiz result views do not have an end date option, many instructors set up at least two additional views: one that shows students quiz questions and feedback, and one that reduces the amount of detail students can see once they have had time to review the quiz results.
When you have multiple views set up on a quiz, students will only see the most recently released view. Here is an example:
My midterm quiz gives students one hour to complete and submit their quiz. The quiz can be accessed until 2:00 pm on October 18. I want students to be able to review the questions they got wrong and see my feedback and the correct answer for those questions until after my office hours on October 21, which end at 4:00 pm. After this time, I want students to only see their score and the overall attempt feedback. To accomplish this I will set up the following two Additional Views on my quiz:
Quiz Review
Display Date: October 18, 2021 3:00 PM
Grade: Display attempt grade for evaluated questions
Questions: Incorrect questions only with learner's responses
Show the correct answers to the displayed questions: Enabled
Statistics: None
Quiz Score and Overall Feedback
Display Date: October 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Grade: Display attempt grade for evaluated questions
Questions: Don't show
Statistics: None
With these two views set, my students will see the Primary View (which, since I didn't change the default settings, will show them their score but no question details) when they submit their quiz. Beginning one hour after the quiz closes for all students, they will be able to see my Quiz Review view which includes the questions they answered incorrectly along with the correct answers, my feedback, and their score. This view will remain visible for all students until 4:00 PM on October 21 when that view will be automatically replaced by my Quiz Score and Overall Feedback view which hides the questions but still allows students to see their quiz score.