This guide pertains to Ultra Course View.
If your course is in Original Course View, see the Original Course View tutorial collection.
Assessment Results Overview
Assessment results allows you to control how students see feedback, scores, and answers once they submit their test. Once a test has been created and questions added to it, automated feedback, scores, and answer availability conditions can be applied to share test details with students. From within a Test, click on the Settings gear icon to open the Test Settings Panel.
When all Feedback options turned off:
Students are presented with this screen upon completion of the test:
Submission View
Allow students to view their submission: This setting preserves the academic integrity of the test questions. When switched off, students can only see the test questions when they are taking the test. If checked, Submission View determines when students are provided with feedback on the assessment and what students are shown. Clearing this checkbox means the additional feedback options presented are also not available.
Determine When Students Can View Their Submission:
- After Submission - shows the student's submission once that student completes the assessment.
- After Individual Grade is Posted - shows the student's submission to the student after their grade has been posted to the Gradebook.
- After Due Date - shows the student's submission to the student after the defined due date.
- After All Grades Are Posted - shows the student's submission to the student after all student scores have been posted to the Gradebook.
- On Specific Date - shows the student's submission to the student after the defined date and time.
Student view of their submission (question asked and answer student gave):
Automated Question Feedback
NOTE: When test questions are added to a test, each question includes an Automated Feedback area where feedback can be added to the test question. This setting is dependent upon feedback being added to test questions. If added it provides feedback to students that is released automatically based on your settings. If feedback has not been added to test questions, uncheck the Show Automated Feedback box.
Determine When Receive Automated Feedback
- After Submission - shows automated feedback to an individual student once that student completes the assessment.
- After Due Date - shows automated feedback to students after the specified due date.
- After All Grades are Posted - shows automated feedback to students after all scores for the assessment have been posted to the Gradebook.
- On Specific Date - shows s automated feedback to students after a defined date and time.
Student view of their submission (question asked, answer student gave, and automated feedback provided for the question):
Question Scores
Provides the individual scores for each question of a student's test. You can decide when this information is released to students. This is a default option for tests. Clear the checkbox if you do not want to show scores for individual questions.
- After Individual Grade is Posted - shows the student the score earned per question after their grade has been posted to the Gradebook.
- After Due Date - shows the student the score earned per question after the defined due date.
- After All Grades Are Posted -shows the student the score earned per question after all student scores have been posted to the Gradebook.
- On Specific Date - shows the student the score earned per question after the defined date and time.
Student view of their submission (question asked, answer student gave, automated feedback provided for the question, score earned on the question):
Correct Answers
Allow students to see the correct answers to automatically scored questions Correct answers can only be displayed at the same time as or after Question Scores. In the test settings panel, the Correct answers option is not turned on by default . When you want students to review the answers with the assessment content, within the test settings panel, select Show Correct Answers. Show question scores will be selected automatically since this setting is required when you opt to show correct answers. To show only the score per question but not the correct score, clear the check box for Show correct answers. When Showing the Correct Answers, students also can receive feedback on answers they got wrong if Incorrect Feedback has been entered in for the question.
For questions that are not automatically scored by Blackboard (e.g. Essay Questions), 'examples of correct response' are available to students after grading has been completed by the instructor and can be accessed by the student be reopening the test and viewing assessment results.
After students complete an assessment and return to review it, a banner appears at the top of the assessment. They're informed that their instructor will reveal the correct answers after all students have submitted. Any feedback you've provided won't appear until grades are posted.
Student view of their submission (question asked, answer student gave, automated feedback provided for the question, score earned on the question, and Correct Answer to the question):