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Assessment and Grading Updates

Adaptive Release

Content items, discussions, assessments, assignments, or other activities can be released to students based on an improved set of criteria including:
  • Date/time
  • Username
  • Group membership
  • Institution role
  • Grade on a particular test or assignment
  • Whether the user has previously reviewed another piece of content.

Assessments and Surveys Improvements

New Feedback option for essay questions.

New Question types:

  • Calculated Formula
  • Calculated Numeric
  • Hotspot
  • Jumbled Sentence
  • Likert Scale
  • True/False
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Answer
  • Ordering
  • Matching
  • Fill-in-the-Blank
  • Short Answer
  • Essay
  • File Upload
  • Binary Choice
Download Assessment Attempts that Include All Questions

Instructors can download Survey or Test attempts as a .CSV file. Most often, this feature is used to perform statistical analysis in a spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel. Downloaded Assessment attempts now include all questions in the Assessment. In earlier versions, only certain question types, such as Multiple Choice, were included in the downloaded attempt.

Reporting & Performance Dashboard

Overview of the gradebook that stores and manages student performance results on assignment and assessments. The Performance Dashboard provides a view of student progress and indicates whether students have reviewed specific content items.
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