Assignment settings

• Enter the date and time when the assignment is available to students and optionally enter a due date and time. Select Change to set your time zone.
• Select the module and topic/lesson where students will access the assignment.

If you allow students to work after the due date, you can:

• Select Require password and enter the password that students must supply to work after the due date.
• Select Require final submission and enter an ending date and time for the late submission period.
• Select Deduct late submission penalty to automatically reduce the score for a late assignment. From the list, choose whether to deduct from the final score or to deduct an amount for each day that the assignment is overdue. In the Penalty box, enter the amount to deduct.

If you uncheck partial credit, students get a 0 score on a multipart question when they answer any part incorrectly.

If your assignment includes questions that require students to show their work, you can choose how the question and the Show Work submission are scored:

• Select Automatically score question and enter a percentage of the total possible score to let the system evaluate students' answers. Students who answer correctly receive that percentage of the total score.
• Select Automatically score Show Work and enter a percentage of the total possible score to give student credit for anything entered in the Show Work window.
• Select Manually score for either the question or the Show Work submission to override automatic scoring and grade the question yourself.

You can combine automatic and manual grading. For example, you could let the system score the question for 75% credit and manually grade the student's Show Work submission to award all or part of the remaining 25%.

• For Prerequisites, select Change to add or modify prerequisites the student must complete before doing the assignment.

  In the popup, select the type of assignment and the module for the prerequisite. You can require one or more prerequisites or specify alternate prerequisites. Optionally enter a minimum score that the student must achieve before doing the assignment.

• For Attempts per assignment, select the box to limit the number of times students can do this assignment before the due date. For homework, this option appears only when your homework contains questions that the student can attempt only once.

For Learning Aids, select Change to add or remove the tutorial options available to students from the question help when they do the assignment. Select Show in Review mode only to display the selected question help only when students review the assignment.

For Graphing, select the box to enter coordinates to plot points on a graph.

Enter the minimum score students must achieve to demonstrate mastery.

Check the box to allow other instructors to import the assignment.

Scoring Options:

If you deduct a late submission penalty, you can select Apply only to questions scored after the due date to apply a penalty only for question submitted after the due date. If this option is unchecked, the penalty is deducted from the assignment score.

Access Controls:

• For Attempts per question, select the box to limit number of times students can work each question. Enter the number in the box.

  This option is not available when you are editing the homework or when the homework contains questions that students can try only once.

  Students use one of their attempts when they access Help Me Answer This in the player.

• Select Media access to require students to open the associated media before answering a question.
• For Number of drafts for a Writing Skills activity, enter the of drafts a student can submit.

  This setting does not affect Writing Practice activities unless you also choose Students can submit Writing Practice activities for instant feedback AND to their instructor in the Edit Learning Path Settings page.

Presentation Options:

• Select Lock Correct Answers to preserve correct answers when students work on a multipart question. This option appears only when you allow more than one attempt per part of a question.
• Select Save values to preserve question values and student answers when students return to the homework. If you uncheck this option, students see new, question values when they return to a question.
• Select Printing to allow students to print the homework.
• Select Skill Builder Adaptive Practice to restrict Skill Builder to screen reader-accessible questions. This option is available only if enabled Skill Builder when you created the homework.

Access Controls:

• Select Require a lockdown browser to use the Pearson LockDown Browser for the assessment. You also can let students use either a basic or scientific a desktop calculator. This option is available only when the LockDown Browser is enabled in your course settings.
• If students can take assessments only from within a limited IP address range, uncheck Students must access this assignment from the following IP address range to deactivate the IP restriction. You also can select Allow students to review this assignment from any IP address so they can review outside the IP address range. These options are available only when the IP restrictions are enabled in your course settings.
• Select Password and enter a password to require a password to access the assessment.
• For Prerequisites, select Change to add or modify assessments that students must do before this assessment. You also can set the minimum score that students must get on the prerequisite assignments.
• In the Incomplete Attempt section, choose whether to allow students to save the assessment and return to it later.

  If you require students to complete the assessment in one session, you can choose what happens if the session is interrupted:

  • Select ...students may re-access and complete on their own to allow students to resume without your permission.
  • Select ...instructors must enable access to require students to get your permission to resume the assessment. If you choose Restricted Access, students can work on other assignments before returning to the assessment. Blocked Access prevents students from doing any other assignments until after they have completed the test. See Enable access to incomplete assessments

  When an incomplete test is resumed, all the student's previous answers are reloaded and they can change their answers.

Presentation options:

• Select Time limit and enter the minutes to limit the amount of time students can use to take the assessment. Select the Show time remaining during test to display the elapsed time during the test.
• Select Scramble question order for each student to randomly display the questions each time the test is taken.

Review options:

• Under Results display, choose what students see when they review the assessment: you can let them see their score and all the questions with their answers, or you can display or only the score. If you choose Hide score and question results, students cannot review the assessment.
• Under Reviewing quiz/test, you can choose when to all students to review the assessment.
• If available, select Print to allow students to print the questions and answers when reviewing.

Step 4 shows when you are creating a competency-based assessment.

1. Select the modules/lessons that you want to map. Use the check box at the top of the table to select all modules/lessons.
2. Select a criteria from the list for each selected assignment or select a criteria from the list in the table header to apply it to all selected assignments.
3. If your criteria is based on a score, enter the score and select the equality operator for each selected assignment or select a score from the list in the table header to apply it to all selected assignments.
4. If you are applying one criteria or score to multiple assessments, select Apply to Selected in the table header.

Tips:

• To create a competency mapping equivalent to direct mastery assessment, select Score on test questions from the module and set the score to less than the desired mastery score.
• Score on test questions from the module is not available for a module that doesn't have a green check in Covered on Test column.
• You cannot change competency mappings after students have enrolled in an course offered through an institution.