Managing Attempted Quizzes

There are several ways you can edit in-progress and attempted quizzes within Brightspace. You can edit attempted quiz scores and grades, delete quiz attempts, submit open attempts, and reopen submitted quizzes. 

Edit attempted quiz scores and grading

The following types of edits to quiz questions can change the overall grade of a quiz:

• Changing the points associated with a question

• Adding or removing a question

For quizzes which has been edited, the unaltered previous attempts will be graded as follows: 

• When using the Highest Attempt, First Attempt, Last Attempt, and Lowest Attempt methods, the learner's actual attempt numerator and denominator are used to calculate the Overall Grade. The denominator in Overall Grade for previous attempts is not changed by edits that alter the quiz score for future attempts. The Overall Grade is determined by the highest percentage score across all attempts.

• For the Average Attempt method, the learner's percentage scores are averaged and displayed using the denominator of the most recently edited version of the Quiz.

Update All Attempts For a Given Question

1. Navigate to Quizzes.

2. From the Actions drop-down menu of the quiz you have edited, click Grade.

3. Click the Questions tab, then select Update all attempts.

4. Click the quiz question that you want to grade to open the Update All Attempts page.

5. Under Grading Type, select one of the following:

   • Give to all attempts: Enter a point value for all question attempts.

   • Give to attempts with answer: Select an answer from the drop-down menu and enter a point value for all attempts with that answer.

6. Click Save.

All attempts for that specific question will have an updated grade.

Delete Quiz Attempts

Students may experience technical issues while taking a quiz. If necessary, you can reset a quiz attempt for your student and provide the opportunity to retake their quizzes by deleting attempts.

1. Navigate to Quizzes.

2. On the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down menu beside the quiz with attempts you want to reset, and click Grade.

3. Select attempts you want to delete and then click the Delete button at the top of the list of quiz attempts.

Submit In-Progress Quizzes

If students forget to click Submit at the end of their quiz, the attempt will appear to be missing. You can search for their attempt to submit the quiz on their behalf.

1. In Quizzes, on the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down menu next to the quiz you want to grade.

2. Select Grade.

3. On the Users tab, click Show Search Options. From the Restrict to drop-down menu, select either All users or Users with attempts in progress. 

4. Click Search (magnifying glass icon) to apply the Restrict to filter.

5. Click the Enter quiz as user icon next to the in-progress quiz.

6. click Submit to submit the quiz as that user.

The in-progress quiz is submitted by you on behalf of the student.

Reopen a Submitted Quiz Attempt

You can reopen the most recently submitted quiz attempt if the learner needs. 

1. In Quizzes, on the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down menu next to the quiz you want to reopen.

2. Select Grade.

3. Select all the desired attempts and click Reopen.

4. Add extra time if required and confirm.