Grading a Quiz

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Last updated: Jul 02, 2020 by Amy Pfeifer (Unlicensed)
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Most question types in Moodle quiz can be automatically graded, but the Essay question requires the instructor to input a grade. There are many ways you can view the results from quiz attempts, below are some of the more common tasks in quiz grading.

Viewing quiz results

  1. Click the link for the quiz on the course page to open the quiz.

  2. Below the Review Quiz heading in the middle of the screen, click the Attempts link.

The top of the results page gives you options to filter the results shown, which is especially helpful when you have large classes.  

Default Results Report: Grades

This report shows you any attempts the students have at least started, including:

  • State of quiz attempt (Finished or In Progress)

  • Date/time quiz was started

  • Date/time quiz was completed

  • Time taken to completion

  • Scores for each question with indications of correctness

Each attempt is shown on its own row, even if the same students attempts the quiz multiple times.  You may sort the grid by any of the fields by clicking the column heading text at the top of each column.

Grading Essays

There are two ways to grade essays:

  1. Click the Requires grading link in the Grades report. In the pop-up window that appears, grade the individual essay attempt

  2. In the Administration block, click the triangle to the left of Results. Click Manual Grading in the sub-menu that appears

The Manual Grading results report allows you to grade all question submissions on a single page, so it is much more efficient.  You can also choose to view all submitted answers to any automatically graded question, making it quick and easy to comment and/or override the automatic grades.

Overriding Grades

  1. In the Grades report, click the score of the submission you want to view and/or override.

  2. Click the Make comment or override mark link to open new window with a comment box.

  3. Click Save to override the grade.

Note: It is also possible to view all submissions to a particular question on the Manual Grading report, see above for details.

Item Statistics

This report gives a statistical (psychometric) analysis of the quiz, and the questions within it. The top section of this report gives a summary of the whole quiz. The next section gives an analysis showing all questions in a table format. There are links in this section to edit individual questions or drill down into a detailed analysis of a particular question. The last section of this report is a bar graph of the percent of correct answers (Facility index) and the Discriminative efficiency index.

The full report (overview, and detailed analysis of all questions) can be downloaded in a variety of formats, as can the quiz structure analysis table.

  1. In the Administration block, click the triangle to the left of Results

  2. Click Statistics in the sub-menu that appears

Viewing a single attempt

  1. On the Grades report, locate the student whose attempt you wish to see

  2. Click the Review attempt link below the name of the student

Downloading response data

  1. At the top of the results grid, find the pull-down menu that defaults to Comma separated values text file

  2. Choose the format you would prefer from that menu.

  3. Click the Download button to the right of that menu

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      • To download question scores, do this from the Grades report (Results > Grades).

      • To download question responses, do this from the Responses report (Results > Responses).

      • To download question statistics, do this from the Statistics report (Results > Statistics).