Automatic and manual scoring

Updated 05 Mar 2024

If you assign point values to questions in a module, many student responses are scored automatically, based on correct answers stored with the questions.

For responses that aren't scored automatically, the answer is initially marked incorrect and the student's score is 0.

You can manually mark the answer correct. If a manually marked question is worth 0 points, you don't have to mark it, but you should if it's at all possible. Unless you do, students don't know if their answer is correct.

If the question is worth more than 0 points, you must mark it or students will get no credit for their correct answers.

There's no partial credit; an answer is either right or wrong.

How question types are scored

Green check mark - Always Always automatically scored. You can manually change any grade to correct or incorrect.
Yellow check mark - Sometimes true Possibly automatically scored. For details about how to create one of these questions so that it is automatically scored, see Options for different question types. (Even if responses aren't scored automatically, you can manually grade them as correct or incorrect.)
Red exclamation ponit - Never true Never automatically scored. You grade responses manually.
   

Question type Scoring Notes
Direction Green check mark - Always Always  
Expression Green check mark - Always Always  
Many Choice Green check mark - Always Always  
Matching Green check mark - Always Always  
Numerical Green check mark - Always Always  
Region Green check mark - Always Always  
Multiple Choice Yellow check mark - Sometimes true Possibly Automatically scored if a correct answer is stored with the question.
Priority Yellow check mark - Sometimes true Possibly Automatically scored if This question has a correct response is selected when the question is edited.
Ranking Yellow check mark - Sometimes true Possibly Automatically scored if a correct ranking is stored with the question.
Short Answer Yellow check mark - Sometimes true Possibly Automatically scored if a correct answer is stored with the question.
Composite Sketch Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Confidence Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Data Collection Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Highlighting Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Image Upload Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Long Answer Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Sketch Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever  
Slide Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever No response is requested or scored, but questions of other types in the same module are scored as indicated in this table.
Word Cloud Red exclamation ponit - Never trueNever