How do I view the feedback on my assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?

If your instructor has selected to make feedback available in an assessment's settings, you can access the feedback within the Tests & Quizzes tool.

Tip: Feedback can only be viewed within Tests & Quizzes, regardless of how you accessed the assessment.

Test scores seem low? Short answer/essay, file upload, and audio response questions must be manually graded by your instructor. When your instructor grades these questions and awards points for them, your overall assessment score will be adjusted accordingly.

Go to Tests & Quizzes.

Select Tests & Quizzes from the tool menu in your site.

View all submissions and scores for assessments.

Screenshot example of Submitted Assessments table showing content described below. Graphic link opens modal with larger image. Press Escape to exit modal.

The Submitted Assessments section gives a summary view of tests and quizzes you have taken.  

  1. The Recorded Score column displays:
    • N/A if the score is not currently available and there is only one submission to the assessment,
    • Your final grade for the assessment if the score is available,
    • (Highest), (Last) or (Average) if you completed multiple submissions or a retake, but the score is not currently available.  

      Note: The recorded score depends on the assessment settings specified by your instructor, and it will be either the highest score, the last score, or an average of all submissions' scores.
  2. The Feedback Available column displays:
    • N/A if no additional feedback is available,
    • A Feedback link, if feedback was made available on submission or on a date in the past,
    • A date if feedback will be available at a future date, or two dates separated by a dash (e.g., Mar 13, 2018 12:00 AM - Mar 15, 2018 12:00 AM) if feedback was previously shown, then hidden on a date in the past.
  3. The Individual Score column displays:
    • N/A if the score is not currently available,
    • Your grade for each submission of the assessment if the score is available,
    • Nothing, if you completed multiple submissions or a retake, but the score was or will be available on specific dates.
  4. The Time column displays:
    • N/A if no feedback is available,
    • How much time elapsed between when you started the assessment and when it was submitted, if feedback is available.
  5. The Submitted column displays the date and time each submission was recorded.

View only recorded scores (Optional).

 

  1. When viewing All Submissions/Scores, select the View Only Recorded Scores link to display only the scores recorded as your final grade for each assessment.
  2. When viewing only recorded scores, select View All Submissions/Scores to access all the scores and feedback for assessments you have taken.

Access additional feedback for an assessment.

While viewing All Submissions/Scores, select the Feedback link for the submission.

Review your assessment feedback.

The feedback your instructor has chosen to release to students will be displayed.  Types of feedback that may be available include the following (select the type of feedback below to skip to a more detailed description):

  • Question and part scores - the score that you received on each part and question in the assessment.
  • Assessment questions - the questions are always shown when accessing a Feedback link.
  • Your answer to each question.
    Note: If your instructor did not select to show your answers, it may seem that your submission is blank, even if you submitted answers!
  • Correct or incorrect answer feedback for each question.  This can also include specific feedback depending on the answers you selected for automatically-graded questions.
  • An Answer Key that indicates which answers are correct and which are incorrect.
  • Comments - additional feedback your instructor entered while grading your assessment.

Types of Feedback

Question and part scores

If your instructor has made question and part scores available:

  1. The score for each part will display to the right of the part's number or name, e.g., Part 1 of 1 - 6.93 / 10.0 Points.
  2. The score for each question will display in a box to the right of the question number, e.g., if you received 3.43/6.0 points on Question 1, it would display Question 1 of 2 | 3.43 | 6.0 Points.

Your answer

If your instructor has made your answers available, they will display underneath the question text.

Pictured above are two examples of questions with student responses visible:

  1. A Short Answer/Essay question displays the student's answer underneath the question text.
  2. A Multiple Choice question indicates the answer selected with a filled-in radio button.

Correct or incorrect answer feedback

Correct or incorrect answer feedback can be made available by an instructor:

  1. For each item in an automatically-graded question,
  2. And/or for the question overall.

This type of feedback is always preceded by the word Feedback.

Pictured above is feedback for a Matching question with both types of correct and incorrect answer feedback.  The instructor has made feedback available for several individual matching items, as well as for the question.

Answer Key

An Answer Key includes:

  1. Green checkmark icons to the left of correct answers,
  2. Red X icons to the left of incorrect answers,
  3. The Answer Key underneath the question with correct answers listed.

Pictured above is feedback for a Matching question where a student made several correct and several incorrect matches.  The correct matches for items 1, 2, and 4 display green checkmark icons.  The incorrect matches for items 3 and 5 show red X icons.  Underneath the question is the Answer Key: 1:C, 2:A, 3:B, 4:A, 5:D.

Comments

While instructors are grading an assessment, they can include additional comments, either about the assessment overall or about individual questions.  Comments will be preceded by the word Comment: on the Feedback screen.

Comments about the overall assessment display at the top of the Feedback screen.  Comments about an individual question display underneath the question.  As part of the comments, instructors can upload attached files.  If a file is attached, a link with the file name will appear in the corresponding Comment section.  Clicking this link will either open the file in a new tab or window, or download it to your computer, depending on your internet browser preferences.

Pictured above is feedback for a File Upload question where a student has been asked to upload a Word document with an essay response.  The instructor has added comments about the student's answer, and uploaded a file attachment with additional editing notes for the student to review.