Reset an assignment to allow rework for credit
Updated 29 Aug 2024
As an instructor you can reset an assignment to allow one or more students to rework it for credit. This is different than giving the entire class the ability to take an assignment multiple times to keep the best score. You can use either of these options to help students improve their score, but not together.
Interactive Lab assignments — Since you cannot reset these, check that the number of assignment attempts allowed for best score are adequate. The default number of attempts is 1 for these lab assignments.
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Reset an assignment
- See Adjust scores and settings per student for how to select the assignment you want to reset, and the students for whom you want to reset it.
- Select Delete all work for this assignment and allow student(s) to restart.
- If the assignment due date has passed, you can change the due/availability dates from the reset confirmation message.
Resetting a Parent assignment automatically resets its Adaptive Follow-Up assignment, as well. But resetting a Follow-Up has no effect on the Parent assignment.
Learning Catalytics assignments cannot be reset.
What happens after you reset an assignment
What changes after an assignment reset
- The assignment status is set to incomplete. All assignment items are reset to incomplete for the selected students, even if some of those students had completed the assignment before. Assignment settings about what students can see before an assignment is complete are applied.
- Original student work is deleted. Any work that the selected students had already done on the assignment is deleted, and their work scores are reset to 0.
- Previous score is displayed. The date, time, and student's score (if any) at the time of the reset are displayed below the Reset Assignment check box. Score includes work plus any adjustments...
that are part of the total for the assignment. Resetting the assignment does not remove adjustments. To remove an adjustment, enter 0 in Adjust Total Points by (+/-).
- Course statistics are updated. All assignment and course statistics are updated to factor in only the work that the selected students complete after the reset. (Adaptive Follow-Ups aren't counted in course statistics.)
- Any Adaptive Follow-Up assignment is also reset. Resetting a Parent assignment automatically resets its Adaptive Follow-Up assignment.
What stays the same after an assignment reset
- The original due/availability dates stay the same, unless you change them from the reset confirmation message.
- Student feedback is preserved. Any student comments about items are preserved, whether the feedback was submitted before or after the reset.
- Time limit for assignments is unaffected. If the assignment has a time limit, the time allowed is the same unless you explicitly change that, as well. When students begin to work the reset assignment, they have the full amount of time allowed. (Time limits never apply to Adaptive Follow-Up assignments.)
What the selected student(s) see
On their Scores page:
- A message with information about the date and time the assignment was reset.
- A score of 0 for the (now Incomplete) assignment.
When they work on the assignment:
- Except for a pooled assignments, students see the same assignment items, but in a different sequence (if item sequence was randomized for the assignment) and different values for variables (if variables in assignment items were set for randomization). More on organizing assignment content
- The same kind of feedback as was previously available (hints, scores, and so on) and the same Grading Policy as before, unless you made changes to those settings.