Reviewing assignments

Online assignments will be available for review for 5 business days after the assignment grades are released. The assignment will then be closed and will NOT be able to be reviewed after that point. You should verify your answers and how they were graded in that 5 business day period. If you requested an extension and want to review your extended assignment, then you will have to attend a tutoring session to review the assignment(s). This can include attending Webex tutoring. Inform Dr Hollier which assignment(s) you wish to review and they will be opened for a short period of time. That means you have to be prepared to review at that point. This includes your ability to review any first attempt of an assignment before taking your second attempt. If you cannot attend any of the regular tutoring hours, then email Dr Hollier and arrangements can be made for a different time for you to review the assignment(s).

You can review your MultiSelect and paragraph questions throughout the semester using the lockdown browser. MultiSelect parts are graded automatically and available for review immediately. Paragraph parts require manual grading and will typically be graded within 1-2 days of the end of the test period. To review your attempt(s), go to quizzes in iCollege, click on the drop down arrow next to the quiz, click on submissions, and then click on the attempt. For paragraph questions, you will be able to view the feedback and/or the correct answer in the feedback section. When you see the question and your written answer you will need to click on the link for feedback to see it.

For assignments that used the Lockdown Browser, follow the steps shown on the next page to review tests. For assignments that did not use the Respondus Lockdown Browser, these same steps work, except that you click on the part that states “not clickable”.  For reviewing feedback, you may have to click launch in lockdown browser when it asks.

I specifically close the tests after a review period for several reasons:

• Students need to review after the test, so they learn from mistakes made for future tests. Limiting access to the review period forces students to review before the next test.
• If students do badly on a test, then they need to fix their knowledge and understanding, as future chapters depend on students’ knowledge and understanding from previous chapters. Limiting access forces students to review and fix their knowledge/understanding before moving on with the next material.
• Students should be learning the material for the long-term, not just to pass a test. This course contains material that is essential for careers in the health field. If a student learns the material for just the test, then they do not have that knowledge/understanding when they move forward in their career. This can cause students to fail out of programs later in their career. It is difficult to get into these programs to start with. It is more difficult to get back in when you fail out as so many people apply. Why should they give you a second chance when they haven’t given some people a first chance? Failing out of a health field program due to lack of knowledge from courses they have already passed is a complete waste of time and money for the student, as they would not have achieved their career goal.
• Students want to review tests so they can memorize answers, not show what they actually have learned. This is very similar to the above comment. Students need to learn this material for the long term, not to pass a test. A comprehensive exam at the end of the semester is designed to see what you have learned from the course, not what you can memorize within a week before the exam.

Step-by-step directions for assignments that use the Respondus Lockdown Browser:

 

Step-by-step directions for understanding Multiple Choice or MultiSelect questions when reviewing these assignments:

 

How to understand MultiSelect grading icons

• Blue arrow(s) indicate what the correct option(s) were.
• A blue arrow and green tick means that is a correct answer and you correctly identified that as a correct answer.
• No blue arrow and a green tick means that it was not a correct answer and you correctly identified it as a wrong answer by not selecting it.
• A blue arrow and a red cross means that it was a correct answer, however you did not select it as a correct answer, and got that part of the question wrong.
• No blue arrow and a red cross means that it was not a correct answer, and you wrongly identified it as a correct answer.
• The ticks in the little boxes are the options you selected as correct for that question. An absence of a tick means you did not select that option as a correct answer.

MultiSelect grading explanation

Lets assume there are 5 answer options to a question. 

• Example 1: The correct answers should have been 4 of the answers are correct (should have been selected) and 1 of the answers is wrong (should not have been selected). If we assume you selected 3 of the correct answers and left 2 answers not selected (1 should have been left unchecked, but 1 should have been selected). Your score is 4 correct (the 3 you correctly selected and the 1 you correctly did not select) and 1 wrong (the one you did not select when you should have). Your score is right minus wrong divided by total answers. For this example that is (4-1) / 5 = 3/5 = 60% or 1.2 points for that question (maximum is 2 points).
• Example 2: The correct answers should have been 4 of the answers are correct (should have been selected) and 1 of the answers is wrong (should not have been selected). If we assume you selected 4 of the correct answers and left 1 answers not selected (1 should have been left unchecked). Your score is 4 correct (the 4 you correctly selected and the 1 you correctly did not select) and 0 wrong. Your score is right minus wrong divided by total answers. For this example that is (5-0) / 5 = 5/5 = 100% or 2 points for that question (maximum is 2 points).
• Example 3: The correct answers should have been 4 of the answers are correct (should have been selected) and 1 of the answers is wrong (should not have been selected). If we assume you selected 1 of the correct answers and left 4 answers not selected (1 should have been left unchecked, but 3 should have been selected). Your score is 2 correct (the 1 you correctly selected and the 1 you correctly did not select) and 3 wrong (the 3 you should have selected but did not). Your score is right minus wrong divided by total answers. For this example that is (2-3) / 5 = 0/5 = 0% or 0 points for that question (maximum is 2 points). I do not do negative points which would happen as 2 minus 3 is -1.

 

Step-by-step directions for reviewing feedback on Paragraph questions / Case studies: