Run a Question Analysis report

This report shows the performance of all students on one or more questions included in one or more activities.

You select the report settings prior to generating the report. You can also save the report settings, print, and download the report.

Note: Teaching assistants must have permission to run reports. Use the Preferences > Permissions page to control which functionality is available to teaching assistants.

Generate reports

To generate the report:

  1. Click Gradebook > Reports.
  1. Click Question Analysis.
  2. Specify the report settings:
    ClickTo

    Activity Options

    To specify activities to include in reports:

    1. Select the Activity type you want to include in the report. The options you see are the same as the activity types defined on the Preferences > Activities page; for example, Homework, Quiz, Test, or Practice Test. If you select All Activities (default), the list includes all the gradable activities in the course.
    2. To select specific activities, click Select Activity(s).
    3. In the window, select the items and click Add. The name appears in the Select Activities field. If you select multiple items "Multiple Selected (n)" appears (where (n) denotes the number of items selected).
    4. To view all of the items you added, click Show All. In the expanded list, to remove an item from the report, click Remove. To close the expanded list, click Collapse.
    5. Select the attempts information you want to include in the report:
      • Recorded in Gradebook: (default) Report includes results that are saved in the gradebook.
      • Most Recent: Report includes the most recent attempt.
      • All Attempts: Report includes the results of all the attempts.
      • First: Report includes the first attempt.
      • Highest: Report includes the attempt with the highest score.
      • Lowest: Report includes the attempt with the lowest score.
      • Average: Report includes the average of all attempts.

    Date Options

    Specify the date range for the attempt to include in the report:

    • To include all dates, select All dates (default).
    • To include a specific date range, select From and click the calendar icons to select the From and To dates.

    Paging Options

    Specify the number of results per page:

    • Show X results per page: Select a number from the list to display that many results on each page. If the number specified is less than the number of activities you selected, the report will include page navigation.
    • Show all results: Select to display all the results on a single page.
  1. To save the settings in the My Reports section, select Save settings to My Reports.
  2. To view the report, click Run Report. For an explanation of the data included in reports, see Interpret report data.
  3. To print (or download) the report, click the Print (or Download) button in the top-right corner. For details see, Print and download reports.
  4. To close the report window, click Close.