Test settings

Available and Due — Choose when the test becomes available and when students can no access it.

Time Zone — Select Change to change your time zone. This setting affects when students can access tests. For example, if you set 5:00 PM as the due time for an test using Eastern Time settings, a student in California cannot access the test after 2:00 PM Pacific Time.

Chapter Associations — Select Change to choose the chapters you want the test to be listed with. If the test has no chapter association, it is associated with Chapter 1 by default. When questions are associated with multiple chapters, only the last chapter is displayed.

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

• Require final submission — Choose an ending time for late submissions.
• Deduct late submission penalty — Automatically reduce the score for a late test. Choose whether to deduct once from the final score or to deduct an amount for each day that the test is overdue. In the Penalty box, enter the amount to deduct and select whether to deduct points or a percentage.

Partial Credit — When this option is clear, students get a 0 score on a multipart question when they answer any part incorrectly.

You can adjust scoring for individual questions, such as answer tolerance or credit for unsimplified answers by previewing the question in the player.

Show Work Questions — When questions in the test require students to show how they arrived at their answers. you can choose how both parts of the Show Work question are scored. See Require students to show their work for details.

If available, select LockDown Browser and Proctoring options. These applications are available only after they have are set up in the program settings:

• Require the Pearson LockDown Browser —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.

  You can select Allow use of basic calculator or Allow use of scientific calculator to let students access a calculator from the LockDown Browser.

• 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.

When 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. See Restrict tests to specific IP addresses for details.

Select Password > Require password and enter the password students must supply to do the test.

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

Select Attempts per Assignment and enter the maximum number of times students can take this test before the due date. If you do not set a limit, students can take the test an unlimited number of times before the due date.

Incomplete Attempt determines how students can resume an interrupted test. An attempt is incomplete when a student works on a test but does not submit it. Students' answers are saved but not their score.

You can choose either:

• Students have the Save for Later option — students don't need permission to save the test and return to it later or to resume an interrupted test.

  When students save a test for later, they cannot access questions that they answered in earlier sessions. If they resume an incomplete test, all their answers are reloaded and students can change their answers.

• Students are expected to complete test in one session. If you choose this option, you can choose what happens if the session is interrupted:
  • If attempt is interrupted, students may re-access and complete on their own — all of a student's answers to date are reloaded into the player when the student re-accesses an incomplete attempt.
  • If attempt is interrupted, instructors must enable access — select either:

    Restricted Access — students can work on other assignments before returning to the test.

    Blocked Access — students cannot do any other assignments until after they have completed the test.

  When a student resumes an incomplete attempt:

  • The number of attempts is not incremented until the student explicitly selects Submit. A single attempt can be interrupted or saved for later multiple times.
  • If the attempt has a time limit, the amount of time remaining is set to the total time limit minus the time spent to date on this attempt.
• If a test can be taken multiple times, the count does not increment. For example, if the test allows three attempts and a student is interrupted on the second attempt, their resumption counts as the second attempt.

For questions with review-only information, clear Show parts of questions tagged for Review-only display to prevent students from accessing the information.

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 for each student to randomly order the questions each time the test is taken.

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

For Results Display, select what students see immediately after submitting the test. 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.

• Select Edit Test Summary Message to enter a message that students see when they complete a test. You can optionally choose to send students from this message to a specified test.

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.

Clear Feedback to hide helpful hints when students review a question they answered incorrectly.

Clear Study Plan to prevent results on this test from updating students' Study Plan mastery.

If available, select Print to allow students to print the questions and answers when reviewing.

Select Importing to allow other instructors to import this test.