You have control over how your questions interact with students within an assignment. You may control this aspect of an assignment on the Edit settings page within the Behavior tab.


Adaptive Mode (No Penalties)

The most lenient, this is our recommendation for Practice assignments and Homework intended as a learning tool or grade booster.

  • Allows students the use of a "Check" button with each question to check their work for accuracy before submitting the assignment. 
  • Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question (without any point deductions) before submitting their assignment to be graded.
  • What students see when using the Check button is controlled on the Review Options tab under "During the Attempt".
  • The Check button is unlimited. If you want to limit the number of "Checks",  use the Deferred Feedback behavior setting (see below) and allow for multiple attempts.

Deferred Feedback

The most restrictive, this is our recommendation for Homework assignments used as an assessment tool, Quizzes, Tests, Exams, or any other type of assessment.

  • Students must complete and submit the entire assignment before anything is graded or they see any feedback.
  • Does not include the Check button.
  • Feedback can be seen when the student Reviews their submitted attempt. What they see, and when they see it, is controlled via the Review Options tab (see Review Options Explained).

Immediate Feedback

This one can be tricky and is NOT RECOMMENDED.

  • Student can submit each individual question (via the Check button) to receive the allowed feedback (per Review Options / During the Attempt selections) and get it graded.
  • !!! IMPORTANT:  If the Allow a redo within an attempt setting is set to No, and the student uses the Check button, their answer will be submitted for a grade.  Their response will NOT be able to be changed or resubmitted.

If NOT ALLOWING a redo within an attempt...

  1. Opt instead for the Adaptive Mode (No Penalties) setting (if you want to allow them to check their work within the attempt), or Deferred Feedback (if you want them to submit the assignment before receiving feedback).
  2. If you want students to work sequentially...
    Set up a custom template. On the Layout tab, set Navigation Method to Sequential.
  3. If you decide to use Immediate Feedback, add instruction for students in the assignment's Description field (Settings screen) informing them that use of the Check button will submit their response and it will be unable to be modified.

If ALLOWING a redo within an attempt...

To allow students to submit one question at a time (via the Check button) to get feedback and grade BUT also allow them to make changes and resubmit, you must set the Allow a redo within an attempt setting to Students may redo another version of any finished question.

  • Student will see a Try another question like this one button which will allow them to rework the question.
  • Use of the Try another question like this one button is unlimited.
    • If Each attempt builds on the last is set to Yes...
      • If the Static version or Same algorithmic version has been assigned, student will receive the same version of the question.
      • If different algorithmic versions have been assigned, student will receive another version with each new try within the current attempt.
      • When beginning a new attempt at the assignment
        • The student's previous answers will be prefilled
        • If different algorithmic versions were assigned, student will receive the last version attempted.
    • If Each attempt builds on the last is set to No...
      • If the Static version or Same algorithmic version has been assigned, student will get the same version of the question.
      • If different algorithmic versions have been assigned, student will get another version with each new try within the current attempt.
      • When beginning a new attempt at the assignment
        • The student's previous responses are NOT prefilled.
        • If different algorithmic versions were assigned, student will receive a new version.

Interactive with Multiple Tries

WARNING!!!   DO NOT SELECT THIS OPTION. This setting requires Hints that are not programmed. If selected this setting works like the Immediate Feedback setting.