LMS Weekly Update: Respondus Lockdown Browser Pilot and Quiz Feedback

Posted on Friday, February 28th, 2020

Respondus Lockdown Browser Pilot

As promised, here’s the official announcement about this upcoming pilot!

AC Online has entered into an agreement to pilot Respondus LockDown Browser. This pilot will run from May 1, 2020, through August 31, 2020, and includes unlimited installations of LockDown Browser software. Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Brightspace. When students use LockDown Browser, they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications.

You can find more details about this Pilot on the Respondus Lockdown Browser Pilot page.

Providing Quiz Feedback

Did you know that, when grading your students quizzes, you have multiple ways of providing feedback? Also, your students have different ways of accessing the feedback, depending on the way you chose to enter your comments.

  • Overall Feedback – general feedback for all of the quiz attempts.
  • Attempt Feedback – feedback provided for each quiz attempt.
  • Question Feedback – feedback entered for each individual quiz question, for each student.

Overall Feedback

There are two ways to provide overall feedback, along with the grade for a quiz, regardless of the number of attempts your quiz allows:

  • Overall Feedback entered from Grades/Enter Grades – The feedback will automatically update in the Overall feedback text box available to you when you grade the quiz.
    Want to save time? When you need to provide all students with the same overall feedback and have it personalized for some of them, while you are still here in Grade/Enter Grades, select all student’s names and click on the Add Feedback button. The comments entered here will populate the Overall feedback area for all those students.
  • Overall Feedback entered from Activities/Quizzes/Grade – When you grade the students’ quiz attempts from the Activities/Quizzes, choose Grade from the contextual menu of the quiz. On the Users tab you will see all students who have completed an attempt. Click on the Overall Grade (highest attempt) and then scroll down at the bottom. Here you will see details on the student’s quiz attempt(s) and also the feedback that you entered from the Grades.

Note 1: It is recommended to enter the overall feedback starting from the Grades, as currently there is an issue with updating the feedback in the Grades, if you do it the other way.

Note 2: The Overall Feedback will be visible to your students even when you keep the Default View on the Submission View tab, in the properties of the quiz, when only the quiz score will show up after students submit the quiz.

How do students view the Overall feedback? Students will access the overall feedback either from their Grade menu, or from the Activities/Quizzes in the Evaluation Status column.

Attempt Feedback

If you allow your students to have one or multiple quiz attempts, you will have the option to provide feedback for each attempt. From Activities/Quizzes, click on Grade from the contextual menu. The Users tab will display your students names and their quiz attempts. Click on the attempt (1, 2, 3, etc) you want to give feedback to and enter the comments in the Attempt Feedback text box. The Attempt drop-down list gives you the option to select different quiz attempts for the same student, while the arrows at the top of the screen allows you to move to the next student.

Note: The Attempt Feedback will be visible for your students without you, the instructor, needing to change the Default Submission View.
How do students view the quiz attempt feedback? They need to go to Activities/Quizzes and click on the Feedback link in the Evaluation Status column and then on each Attempt link.

Feedback per Quiz Question

If you want to give feedback for individual quiz questions (for instance, for written response type of questions), then you will need to set up a different Submission View for your quiz, other than the default one. In the Submission View for the quiz, either “Show questions answer incorrectly”, “Show questions answered correctly”, or “Show all questions with user responses” must be selected.
Click here in order to read about Submission Views.

How do students view the feedback for individual questions? Students will need to go to Activities/Quizzes and click on the Feedback link from the Evaluation Status column. Once there, there will be a link to their quiz attempt.

Important! For the type of feedback that requires students to go to Activities/Quizzes, the quiz (active or inactive) needs to be displayed on that page. Even if you don’t want the quiz open anymore, you will just need to keep it active an set up an end date under the quiz Restrictions tab.

 


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