Manage questions

You can preview questions as students see them and optionally edit their settings. When you preview Writing Skills essay prompts, you can read and edit the prompt and the suggested answer.

1. Open the Manage Assignments page for the content area.
2. Under Customize in the list of tasks, select View and Manage All Assignments.
3. Optionally use the filters at the top of the list to display only assignments in individual modules or topics or show assigned/unassigned assignments.
4. From the Actions menu for an assignment, choose Edit to open the Assignment wizard.
5. Go to step 2.
6. From either the Available Questions List or the My Selections List, select questions to view and choose Preview & Add.

   If you do not select a question, the entire list is available from the player preview.

7. Depending on the question, you can:
   • Select Get More Help > Ask the Publisher to report an issue about the question to Pearson.
   • Select Get More Help > Add Instructor Tip to add instructions for your students.
   • Select Show completed problem to see the question with answers or Work problem as student to do work on it as a student.
   • Select Student to show work to require students to show how they got their answer.
   • Select Copy and Edit to open the question in the Custom Question Builder and edit it.
   • Enter the number of points to change the number of points for a correct answer.
   • Select Scoring options to customize question scoring and set the number of times students can attempt one part of a multipart homework question.
   • Select Next or Previous to move between questions.
   • Select Add or Remove to specify whether the question is in your My Selections list.

1. Open the Manage Assignments page for the content area.
2. Under Customize in the list of tasks, select View and Manage All Assignments.
3. Optionally use the filters at the top of the list to display only assignments in individual modules or topics or show assigned/unassigned assignments.
4. From the Actions menu for an assignment, choose Edit to open the Assignment wizard.
5. Go to step 2.
6. Select View questions details above the My Selections list.
7. Select the question you want to edit or check the box in the header to select all the questions.
8. Depending on the type of question, you can edit:
   • For math questions, the answer tolerance, the amount of to give credit for unsimplified answers, and whether students are required to show their work.
   • Under Tries within Each Question, the number of times your students can attempt a part in a homework question.

     This setting does not affect the number of times that students can attempt the entire question. For example, you could give students 5 attempts at an entire question but limit the number of tries per part to 2.

   • Under Learning Aids Available, the question help students can access when they do the assignment. Select Change to specify what tutorial help is available. Select Assignment settings in the header to apply question help settings to all questions in the assignment.
   • Under Points, the number of points awarded when students answer the question correctly.
9. Select Apply to selected in the header to edit the questions.

For applicable questions, you also see:

• Type: The type, such as multiple choice, short answer, true/false, or essay.
• Author-Defined Difficulty: The difficulty as defined by its author.
• Format The format, such as algorithmic or static.
• Source The source, such as Publisher or Custom.

You can see an overview of the questions in an assignment, including coverage, difficulty ratings, custom settings, and number of points:

1. Open the Manage Assignments page for the content area.
2. Under Customize in the list of tasks, select View and Manage All Assignments.
3. Optionally use the filters at the top of the list to display only assignments in individual modules or topics or show assigned/unassigned assignments.
4. From the Actions menu for an assignment, choose List questions.

When students do assignments online, Pearson collects anonymous statistics on the difficulty and the time required to answer. When enough students do the question, this data is aggregated to provide metrics for the question.

If question metrics are available for your course, you see these metrics when you view the questions in an assignment:

1 bar = easy

2 bars = moderate

3 bars = hard

4 bars = very hard

For each icon, a tooltip tells you the difficulty level, median time spent by students on the question, and the percentage of students who answered correctly on the first try.