Otus - Advanced Assessments - Answer & Scoring Options

In Advanced Assessments, you have the ability to set multiple answers for a question that would award the student variable credit. For example, the answers could have scores of:

•  correct = 8

• alternative 1 = 6

• alternative 2 = 4

• Unscored/Practice Usage - This option allows authors to disable scoring for a question. When enabled, the question will receive no score. 

• Check answer button - Check Answer is a button that appears below a Question, and allows students to check if their response is correct. The default setting is unlimited attempts. The Check Answer button will not disclose the correct answer, but will indicate which answers have been answered incorrectly.

• Scoring type - These scoring options are not available in all of our Question Types.

• Exact Match - The Exact Match scoring option is available in all autoscored Question Types. With Exact Match, the student must get the entire Question correct to receive a mark.

• Partial Match per Response - Partial scoring can be used in Questions where the student may have to answer a Question with multiple responses. Each response can be scored independently, however each response is of equal value. If the Question is given a score of 1, then each response within this Question will be worth 1 mark. As a result, a possible max score for the Question will be 3.

• Partial Match - A student gets a partial score for each correct response within the Question. The difference with Partial Match is that the value entered in the Points box is the overall mark for the Question. If the Question is given a score of 1, then each response within this Question will be worth .3333 (rounded to 4 decimal places).

• Enable auto scoring - If unchecked, autoscoring is turned off and the teacher would need to score that question manually.

• Penalty point - This will determine if marks are deducted for an incorrect answer. By default, the Penalty Score is set to 0

• Check answer attempts - Sets the number of times a student can use the check answer button.

• Rounding - Under Partial Match there is a Rounding option. Rounding is only available when the scoring type Partial Match has been selected. There are two options to select from the drop down menu: None or Rounding Down.

• None will round the score to four decimal places e.g. 2.6666

• Rounding down will round the score down to the nearest whole number, e.g. a score of 2.666 will be rounded down to 2.