Review a student's work on a specific item (Item Work page)

Updated 19 Feb 2024

To see a student's answers, system responses, the correct answer, and more for an assignment item, select the item title in the Assignment Grade page for a specific student. This information appears in the Item Work window.

  • Title of the item and the assignment
  • Details about the item completion status, and if COMPLETED, further details about the score and the time the student spent on the item
  • All parts of the item with correct answers, including both opened and unopened hints (if any)

    If you see an issue within an item, select  Contact the Publisher to provide details.

  • The student's answers to the parts and hints, and the time those answers were logged.

    Unopened informational hints are noted as [UNOPENED]. Unopened hints with questions are noted as [NO SUBMISSIONS].

  • Mastering's response to student answers that are automatically scored

    In this example, the correct answer is 10, which is displayed in a box labeled “ANSWER.” Below the correct answer is a table that displays the selected student’s answers. The table includes three columns for Time, Proposed (proposed answer), and Response (Mastering response to the student’s proposed answer). Rows under the column heads show the student's answer attempts, as follows: Row one: Time is 22 Feb 2012 4:56.24PM. Proposed answer is 100. Response from Mastering is Try again. Row two: Time is 22 Feb 2012 4:56:36PM. Proposed answer is 10. Response from Mastering is Correct.

    For some answers, a View link lets you display the answer at a readable size.

    This example shows a sorting question, in which students were asked to drag three items into one of two categories. Under the system’s correct answer is a table with three columns for Time, Proposed (student’s proposed answer), and Response (Mastering’s response to the proposed answer). Three rows indicate two incorrect attempts before the student submitted the correct answer. In all three rows, the Proposed column contains only a View link. Click this link to display one of the answer windows, which contain the student’s responses.

    To use View links to see the correct answer and the student's answers at the same time:

    1. Resize your browser window to less than full screen.
    2. Select a View link to see the correct answer or one of the student's answers, and drag this answer window to a position where at least part of it hangs off the edge of the browser window.
    3. To see another answer, select a different View link. More than one answer can be open at a time.

      Notice when you do this that the first answer window moves behind the main window.

    4. Select any answer window to bring it to the front and make it fully visible again.

      Depending on your screen resolution and the size of your computer monitor, you may need to overlap the answer windows.

      One window caption says Correct Answer. The other window's caption contains the name of the student who submitted this answer.

 

The student's essay answers appear in this window, but other information for essay work differs from automatically scored work in two ways:

  • The item score is provisional until all of the student's essay answers for the item have been graded by an instructor.
  • No system response is available for essays, and instructor comments are not displayed on the Item Work page.

For more information, see How essay answers are graded.