Author feedback

You can author feedback that can be applied to:

  • An entire question

  • A specific response to a question

Authoring or editing feedback can be performed at anytime while working with questions (Example — you can import a question from your Content Repository into an assignment and author feedback for that question from within the Assignment Editor).

Feedback could be comments such as:

  • Tips

  • Notes

  • Full solutions

You can control the scenarios of when feedback is made visible to your students through different activity properties.

Control feedback with activity properties

The following sample scenarios of enabled activity properties (indicated by X) can help you to understand how different activity properties can affect what feedback (if authored) the student sees:

How Did I Do?*

Show Question Feedback*

Show Question Feedback**

Restrict Feedback Until***

What the student sees

X

  • Student can click How Did I Do? during their attempt to check only the correctness of their response

X

X

  • Student can click How Did I Do? during their attempt to check the correctness of their response, view question feedback, and view response-level feedback

X

X

X

  • Student can click How Did I Do? during their attempt to check the correctness of their response, view question feedback, and view response-level feedback

  • Student can click View Details after submitting their attempt to view question feedback

  • Student can view question feedback in their Gradebook

X

X

X

X

  • Student can click How Did I Do? during their attempt to check the correctness of their response, view question feedback, and view response-level feedback

  • View Details can't be clicked after the student submits their attempt, so question feedback can't be viewed after submission

  • Student can't view their attempt or question feedback in their Gradebook until the defined date

X

  • How Did I Do? can't be clicked during the student's attempt (response correctness, question feedback, and response-level feedback can't be viewed)

  • Student can click View Details after submitting their attempt to view question feedback

  • Student can view question feedback in their Gradebook

X

X

  • Student can click How Did I Do? during their attempt to check only the correctness of their response

  • Student can click View Details after submitting their attempt to view question feedback

  • Student can view question feedback in their Gradebook

* This is a Feedback (During) property

** This is a Feedback (After) property

*** This is a Scheduling & Visibility property

Author question feedback

Question feedback applies to an entire question and, depending on your activity properties, can be made visible to a student when they:

  • Click How Did I Do? during an activity attempt

  • Click View Details after submitting their attempt

  • View their graded attempt in the Gradebook

To author question feedback:

  1. Navigate to the question that you want to add feedback to.

  2. Navigate to the Feedback tab of an Activity Editor or Feedback pane of the Question Editor for the question you want to apply feedback to.

  3. Define your question feedback in the Feedback text field of the chosen editor.

  4. Click the save icon in an Activity Editor or Save in the Question Editor.

  5. Your question feedback is now available wherever the question is in use (and its visibility can be controlled using Assignment properties and Lesson properties).

Author response-level feedback

Response-level feedback applies to a specific student response component within a question and, depending on your activity properties, can be made visible to a student when they click How Did I Do?.

To author response-level feedback:

  1. Navigate to the question that you want to add the feedback to.

  2. Double-click on the specific student response component where you want to apply feedback.

  3. Click the Feedback tab of the Edit Student Response Component window.

  4. Define your response-level feedback in the Feedback text field.

  5. Click Update to associated this specific feedback with the selected student response component.

  6. Click the save icon in an Activity Editor or Save in the Question Editor.

  7. Your response-level feedback is now available wherever the question is in use (and its visibility can be controlled using Assignment properties and Lesson properties).