Step 3: Choose settings for assignments

Select Review Individual Student Settings to see any students who have individualized settings for the assignment.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

• Set the date and optionally the time when the assignment displays to students and when it is due.

  After the due date, students can only review homework.

• For Available, optionally select Change to choose your time zone or Daylight Savings Time setting.
• For Chapter Associations or Chapter/Objective Associations, optionally select Change to choose the chapters, units, or objectives associated with the assignment.

  The chapters, units, or objectives associated with the assignment are based on the questions you selected on step 2 of the wizard. When questions are associated with multiple chapters, only the last chapter is displayed. Questions with no chapter association are associated with chapter 1.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

If you choose Late submissions > Allow students to work and change score after due date, you can select:

• For homework assignments, Require password - enter the password students must supply to work after the due date.
• Require final submission - choose an ending date and time for late submissions.
• Deduct late submission penalty - automatically reduce the score for a late assignment. 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.
  Important: If you use a learning management system (LMS), only set late penalties in either your MyLab or Mastering gradebook or your LMS gradebook, but not both.
• For homework assignments, Apply only to questions scored after the due date - apply the penalty only to questions submitted late.
  See Allow students to submit assignments late for details on how penalties are applied.

Changes to Late submissions take effect the next time your student accesses their assignment.

When you clear Allow 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:

• 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 students 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 get an alert in your gradebook when a question needs manual grading.

  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%.

• Select Allow students to access Help Me Solve This and View an Example to enable question help in Show Work questions.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

For Password, select Require password and enter the password students must supply to do the test or quiz.

For Prerequisites, select Change to add or modify prerequisites the student must complete before doing the assignment. You can require one or more prerequisites or specify alternate prerequisites. Optionally enter a minimum score for the prerequisite. See Use prerequisites.

For Practice after the due date, select Students can rework questions for practice after the due date to allow students to practice the questions in a homework assignment after the due date.

Tries vs attempts

For algorithmic questions, students see different values each time a question is accessed. You can set both the number of tries and the number of attempts at questions.

Question tries

By default, students get three tries to answer an individual version of a question before the answer is shown (except for multiple choice questions with a limited number of choices).

Optionally, set the tries within each question without affecting the number of attempts per question.

Question attempts

For Attempts per question, select Limit number of times students can work each question and enter the maximum number of times students can attempt a question.

By default, in MyLab courses students can make an unlimited number of attempts at a new version of a question with different values.

Using the MyLab defaults, students can try three times to answer a question correctly. At the end of three tries, they see the answer and cannot work the question with the same values. However, they can make a second attempt at a new version of the question with different values.

By default, in Mastering courses students can make one attempt at a new version of a question with different values.

The Attempts per question option is not available when you edit a homework or when a homework contains questions that students can try only once.

Students use one of their attempts when they access Help Me Solve This, except when only one attempt is allowed.

Watch: Attempts vs. Tries (3:35)

• Optionally select Require students to work media before answering questions for assignments that incorporate media.

Test and quiz settings

If available, select LockDown Browser and Proctoring options. These applications are available only after they are set up at the course level.

• Do not use LockDown Browser or automated proctoring
• Require LockDown Browser only (no proctoring) — The Pearson LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning system. It prevents students from opening applications or other browser windows while taking online tests or quizzes.
• Require LockDown Browser with Respondus Monitor Proctoring — Respondus Monitor Proctoring builds upon Lockdown Browser by adding webcam proctoring to remotely monitor and record students taking an online test or quiz in the Pearson LockDown Browser. This option displays when your course includes Respondus Monitor Proctoring.

• Optionally allow to students use a basic or scientific desktop calculator.

• If IP restrictions are enabled in your course settings, optionally clear 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.
• Optionally select Attempts per assignment and enter the maximum number of times students can attempt the test or quiz.
• In the Incomplete Attempt section, choose whether to allow students to save the test and return to it later. When an incomplete test is resumed, all the previous answers are reloaded but students cannot change their earlier answers.

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

  • Select If attempt is interrupted, students may re-access and complete on their own to allow students to resume without your permission.
  • Select If attempt is interrupted, instructors must enable access to require students to get your permission to resume the assignment.
    • Restricted Access — Students can work on other assignments before returning to the test.
    • Blocked Access — Blocks a student's access to anything in the course until they complete the quiz/test or the instructor manages incompletes. Students cannot do assignments and cannot read the eTextbook. They do not have access to materials in any course in the same discipline. For example, if a student is taking two math courses, they are blocked from both.

Blocked access carries over for the student to a future semester if the student started the test, never submitted the test, and the instructor didn’t manage incompletes or re-enable access. If a student becomes inactive in the course, instructors must find the inactive student in the gradebook to submit scores, so that the student’s access is not blocked in a future semester.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

• For questions with review-only information, clear Show parts of questions tagged for Review-only display to prevent students from accessing the information.
• For Learning aids, select Change to add or remove options available to students as question help in the player.

  Select Show in Review mode only to display the selected question help only when students review.

  If you previously selected question help for questions, changes here do not affect those questions.

• Select Graphing to allow students to enter coordinates to plot points on a graph.

Homework settings:

• Select Lock Correct Answers to preserve correct answers when students work on a multipart question when you allow more than one attempt per part of a question. This option is helpful for questions with many different parts - for example, accounting tables.

• Select Save values to preserve question values and student answers when students leave and return to the homework. This lets you review their work. If you clear Save values, students see new question values and previous answers are not saved. For example, you might clear Save values if this is a practice assignment.

• 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 when Skill Builder was enabled when you created the homework.

Test and quiz settings:

• Select Time limit > Test time allowed (minutes) and enter the minutes to limit the time students can spend on the test or quiz. Select Show time remaining during test to display the elapsed time to students.
• Timer > Only runs when test is open — If selected, the timer only runs while the student is taking the test. The timer stops if a student signs out; switches to a different assignment, window or page; or loses their internet connection.
• Timer > Will not stop once started — If selected, students cannot pause the timer once it starts. Students lose any remaining time if they sign out; switch to a different assignment, window or page; or lose their internet connection.
• Select Question display > Scramble question order to randomly display the questions each time the test is taken.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

• For Results Display, choose what students see immediately after submitting the test or quiz. You can:
  • Display their score and a list of questions showing whether their answers were correct or incorrect.
  • Display only their score.
  • Hide both the score and question results.

    If you hide both, students cannot review the assignment.

Your choice for Results Display does not affect how students can review the assignment later.

• For Reviewing test, choose when to let students review all the questions, with their answers and the correct answers.

  If you display only the test score for the Results Display but allow students to review at any time, students can see both their assignment score and their responses to each question when they review.

• Select or clear Feedback to allow or prevent students from seeing helpful hints when they review a question they answered incorrectly.
• Select or clear Study Plan to allow or prevent results on this test or quiz from updating students' Study Plan mastery.
• If available, select Print to allow students to print the questions and answers when reviewing.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

Select Importing to allow other instructors to import the assignment.

For Tags, select Change to apply or remove tags to the assignment.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

When you assign a companion Study Plan as a prerequisite for a test or quiz, step 4 of the wizard displays.

• From the list, select the sections or objectives to cover in the companion Study Plan.
• Optionally edit the number of mastery points required to satisfy the prerequisite.

You see only the settings applicable to the type of assignment you are creating or editing.

When you save an assignment with specialized content (for example, Mini Sims), the Additional Settings window appears. Select the name of the assignment in this window to customize or initialize the assignment.

When you are assigning interactive media or questions, selecting the assignment name shows the settings you can customize, for example scoring or presentation options.

When you assign a Dynamic Study Modules (DSM) module, selecting the assignment name confirms that the assignment is initialized in DSM.

You also can access the Additional Settings window by choosing Additional Settings from the Assignment Manager.