HOW TO VIEW ASSESSMENT ANSWERS & ITEM ANALYSIS: CORRECTION

Correction: While the steps indicated in yesterday’s message cover the Item Analysis feature, they do not address how you would view an individual student's answers. To do this:

1. Go to Utilities for that assessment.


2. Select View, Grade or Delete Submissions.


3. Next to a student's name, click either View or Grade, depending on whether you just want to see their answers or if you want to grade the assessment.


4. And that’s it!

If you want to see the Item Analysis for the assessment, use the following steps (the same steps listed in yesterday’s newsletter).

1. Go to the item (Assessment) on the Lessons tab.


2. As you mouse over the item, links appear below the item (Settings, Reports, Utilities, Delete).


3. Click on the Reports link and you will see the following options:
   
   Activity Summary: Displays the number of times each user has accessed this item
   Activity Detail: Displays the complete activity log for this item
   Item Analysis: Shows a summary of responses by question
   


4. Select Item Analysis and you will be able to review the answers students gave to each question.

How Students Can View Their Grades

If you have the Grades nugget on your course home page, students will be able to see an overview of their grades when they log into your course. Students should click the Refresh link on the Grades nugget to see the most current view.

To get a detailed listing of grades, a student can click anywhere on the graph within the Grades nugget. This action will bring the student to the Reports console, with Learner Profile > Gradebook Grades already selected. All the student needs to do is to click the Run button. They may also want to switch the view from Chart to Table for a more understandable summary of grades.

Any assignments or assessments in their grade summary can be accessed from the grade report by clicking on the link to that assignment or assessment. This technique works even if you have put the assignments inside a hidden folder. As long as the folder is hidden but the actual assignments are not hidden, the student will be able to access them via the links on their grade report.

If you do not include the Grades nugget in your course, students can still get grade reports by going to the Reports tab, choosing Learner Profile in the first drop-down menu and Gradebook Grades in the second drop-down menu, and clicking Run.

A more detailed report can be accessed by going to the Reports tab, choosing Grades in the first drop-down menu and Student Grades in the second drop-down menu.

Finally, previewing this action in your student view may or may not produce accurate results. Your students will be able to access their grade reports, but an instructor using the student view may not.

Student Activity in Discussions

There are two places you can get information about student activity in your discussion forums.

1. The first place is in the Report tab. There are several different reports dealing with discussions, such as:
   
   · Learner Profile > Forum Posts (shows number of posts from a particular student in each forum)
   · WhoDunIt > Forum Posts (can find out who has or had not posted in a particular time interval)
   · Class > Forum Activity (can see total number of posts and replies for all students in all forums for a particular time interval)
   · Class > Forum Posts (can see total number of posts for all students in all forums for a particular time interval)


2. You can also go to a particular forum in your Lessons tab and click on the Reports link under that forum.
   
   
   
   
   
   You can then choose one of two reports:
   
   · Activity Summary (displays the number of times each user has accessed this item)
   · Activity Detail (displays the complete activity log for this item)
   

How Students View Their Grades

If you have the Grades nugget on your course home page, students will be able to see an overview of their grades when they log into your course. To get a detailed listing of grades, a student can click anywhere on the graph within the Grades nugget. This action will bring the student to the Reports console, with Learner Profile > Gradebook Grades already selected. All the student needs to do is to click the Run button. They may also want to switch the view from Chart to Table for a more understandable summary of grades.

Any assignments or assessments in their grade summary can be accessed from the grade report by clicking on the link to that assignment or assessment. This technique works even if you have put the assignments inside a hidden folder. As long as the folder is hidden but the actual assignments are not hidden, the student will be able to access them via the links on their grade report.

If you do not include the Grades nugget in your course, students can still get grade reports by going to the Reports tab, choosing Learner Profile in the first drop-down menu and Gradebook Grades in the second drop-down menu, and clicking Run.

Finally, previewing this action in your student view may or may not produce accurate results. Your students will be able to access their grade reports, but an instructor using the student view may not.