Standard Test Settings

While creating a new standard test, you can implement the following test settings, by clicking on the "Settings" icon.

You will see the "Test Settings" pop up on the screen.

1. Time Limits (Minutes) - Set a time limit for students to answer the questions. The test will be automatically submitted when the time runs out. 

2. Allow Question Skip - If the "Allow Question Skip" toggle is ON, it will allow students to skip a question, without submitting an answer, and return to answer it later.

3. Shuffle Questions - If the "Shuffle Questions" toggle is ON, it will shuffle the order in which the questions appear. The questions will be shuffled each time a user attempts the test.

4. Test Summary - If the "Test Summary" toggle is ON, it will enable a button on completion of the assessment, allowing students to see submitted answers, with correct/incorrect feedback, as a summary at end of the assessment. 

5. Step Solution - If "Step Solution" toggle is ON, it will allow students to see the previous question, with their submitted answer, while completing the next question in the quiz.

6. Check Answer on Each Attempt - If the "Check Answer on Each Attempt" toggle is ON, the below settings are enables on the "Test Settings" pop up and it will allow students more than one attempt to answer a question correctly. 

1. Attempts Allowed - Specifies the number of attempts a student is permitted for a question. 

2. Deduct Score on Each Attempt 

• Specifies whether the score deducted is based on marks or a percentage value. You can select percentages or points from the drop-down.
• The publisher, teacher or school/district admin must also specify the actual value of the marks or percentage to be deducted in the space provided. Here, 0 is set as the default value of the marks.

3. Keep Score For - You can select each score, first attempt, last attempt from the drop-down. 

• Each Attempt - As soon as a user gets an answer incorrect, the score is deducted.
• First Attempt - Deducts marks for incorrect answers on the user’s first attempt.
• Last Attempt - Deducts marks for incorrect answers on the user’s last attempt.

7. Enable Partial Scoring - If the "Enable Partial Scoring" toggle is ON, it will allow the test creator to award marks for a partially correct answer. You can select the scoring method for partial scoring from the "Scoring Method" drop down.

• Exact Match - With Exact Match, the student must get the entire question correct to receive a score. 

For example - In multiple-choice type questions, if Option 1 and Option 2 are the correct answer and a user chooses only Option 1, then the user will be scored 0. (NOTE: This has the same effect as disabling the setting for Partial Scoring.)

• Partial Scoring per Response – Each correct response element will be awarded an individual score and each response is of equal value. If the question is given a score of 1, then each correct response for this question will be worth 1 mark.

For example - Marks for an MCQ question is set at 1 and there are 3 response elements within the question. If the User answers 2 of the response elements correctly, the user will receive a total question score of 2 marks out of a possible 3.  If the user only answered 1 response element correctly, then they will get 1 mark out of the 3 available marks for the question.

• Partial Scoring per Question – Each correct response element will be scored individually, and the overall question score will be divided between responses.

Question Types: Fill in the Blanks, Match the Following, Association.

For example - If the question is given a score of 1, and there are three response elements within the question, then each response will be worth 0.33 marks (based on 33% of 1 mark, rounded to 2 decimal places).

Question Type: Multiple Choice

For example - If there is a multiple choice question that is scored 1 and there are 3 choices within the question, wherein 2 choices are correct and one is incorrect, then each response score will be 0.5. If the user responds with 1 correct choice, then they will get 0.5 marks out of 1.

For Association activity, a mark is only awarded for each correct item pairing (e.g. Paris - France), not per item. 

• Rounding Setting is enabled if "Partial Scoring per Question" is selected. The score will be rounded off for each question. The options are:
• When Rounding Setting is "Allowed" - The overall question score will be divided between correct responses and rounded down to the nearest whole number.
• When Rounding setting is "None" – The overall question score will be divided between correct responses and rounded to two decimal places.

8. Custom Messages - If the "Custom Message" toggle is ON, then on completion of the assessment, it provides the student with different feedback, based on the percentage score achieved.

You can create a new message by clicking on "+New Message."

Note -

Partial scoring will be available for the following question types:

• Multiple Choice
• Association
• Match the Following
• Fill in the Blanks
• Fill in the Blanks with the Drop-down
• Fill in the blanks with Drag and Drop

Partial Scoring is not available for the following question types, wherein the teacher will evaluate the question score or the question will be auto-evaluated:

• Single Choice (auto-evaluated)
• Ordering (auto-evaluated)
• Description (Teacher evaluated)

The Comprehension activity type question must be used in conjunction with one of the other templates and will assume that template's scoring options.