This is the feedback setup we like for assignments: students see their grade as soon as they submit, and their answers, the correct answers and any support video after the due date. You set it in two places on the assignment's Setup tab in the Blended Teaching Control Center: the Availability dates and the Results Display settings.
Every instructor runs their class differently. Some walk through an assignment in class, some give feedback the moment a student submits, and some give very little. This is one setup that works well for us, and the steps below are useful whichever settings you choose.
This guide has three sections:
Our preferred assignment experience
What students see
The settings to change
1. Our Preferred Assignment Experience
Our preferred assignment feedback settings are:
1 attempt.
After that attempt, students see their grade straight away, and nothing more.
After the due date, students see their answers, which ones were correct and incorrect, the correct answers and a support video (if the assignment has one).
Students who submit after the due date lose 20%.
We like 1 attempt because the quiz part of an assignment is simply how students hand in their work. They get the questions beforehand and can take days to work through them. Submitting is one step, like handing a paper in.
We also like letting students submit up to a day late, with a penalty. A student who is ten minutes past the due time can still hand their work in rather than being shut out. The penalty matters for two reasons:
Handing work in on time is a habit worth building.
Once other students can see the correct answers after the due date, a late student could use them, so late work should cost something.
Showing the grade straight away gives students a result. Holding back the answers until the due date means they can't pass them on to classmates who are still working.
After the due date, students get full feedback: what they got right and wrong, the correct answer, and a support video to work through anything they still don't follow.
2. What Students See
With these settings, students see two different results pages:
When they submit
After the due date
2.1 When They Submit
When they submit, students see only their grade.
2.2 After the Due Date
After the due date, students see their answers, whether each one was correct, the correct answers and the support video (if there is one).
3. The Settings to Change
Both settings are on the assignment's Setup tab:
Availability
Results Display
3.1 Availability
First set the due date, the end date and the late penalty. The due date is also the date we use to release the full feedback.
To set the due date, end date and penalty:
In the Control Center, select Assessments in the left sidebar.
Open the Assignments tab above the table and click the assignment's name. It opens on its Setup tab.
In the Availability section at the top of the page, choose a Due Date and time.
Choose an End Date one day after the due date.
Enter the Late Submission Penalty (%). It is taken off work submitted after the due date and before the end date. The penalty multiplies the score: with a 20% penalty, a student who scores 80% gets 64%. We like 20%.
Click Save setup, at the bottom of the page.
To let one or two students submit late without the penalty, give them extra days instead of moving everyone's dates. Open Students in the left sidebar and use the Accommodations column, as Making Accommodations: Extra Time, Attempts & Extensions explains.
3.2 Results Display
Next, choose what students see and when.
To open the Results Display settings:
In Assessments, find the assignment, click the three dots at the right of its row and select Setup.
In the list of sections on the left of the Setup page, under Rules, click Results. The page jumps to Results Display.
Our settings are:
Tick Show grades to students, so students see their grade when they submit.
Tick Show questions and student responses, and set Show responses on to the due date.
Tick Show answer feedback to students, and set Show feedback on to the due date.
Tick Indicate if response is correct or incorrect and Show correct answer, and set Show correctness on to the due date.
Click Save setup.
Before the due date, students see only their grade. From the due date, they see everything else.
For every option on the Results Display card, and what students see with each, read Grades & Results Feedback Settings for Assessments.