If assessment grading requires correction due to a wrongly framed question or incorrect answer options, Remediation allows you to apply a single update and automatically recalculate affected student grades for past and future attempts. This guide explains when and how to use remediation effectively.
Overview
This article covers:
Introduction
When to Use Remediation
Available Remediation Actions
How to Apply/Reverse Remediation
Visibility
1. Introduction
Remediation allows you to adjust grading after a quiz, exam, or assignment has been submitted. It is designed to correct grading due to question-level issues without requiring manual grade edits for individual students. Once applied, remediation updates affect student grades immediately and records the action in your control center for transparency.
1.1 How to Access the Remediation Tab
Open your Control Center in Blended Teaching.
Click the Quizzes tab on the left-hand side.
Locate the assessment (quiz, exam, or assignment) where you want to apply remediation.
Click the 3 dots on the right-hand side of the assessment.
Click the Build button to open the assessment editor.
Select the Remediate tab at the top of the page.
You will be taken to the Remediation page, where all questions in the assessment are listed and ready for action.
2. When to Use Remediation
Remediation can be used when a question requires correction in an assessment that has already been released to students or will be made available in the future. It updates grading for previously submitted attempts, future submissions, and quizzes that are live at the time the remediation is applied.
Common scenarios include:
A question contains an error.
An additional answer should be accepted as correct.
All students should receive full credit for a given question.
A question should be removed from grading entirely.
3. Available Remediation Actions
The Remediation page provides three actions as listed at the top of the page:
Give Full Credit: Awards full points to all students for the selected question (Used when a question is invalid, ambiguous, or incorrectly graded).
Accept Additional Answers: Allows instructors to mark other responses as correct answers (In addition to the original answer).
Exclude from Grading: Removes the question from all score calculations (The question remains visible but does not contribute to the total grade). This is the equivalent of "throwing out" a question from grading.
Once applied, the grades for all completed attempts containing that response are recalculated and updated automatically.
4. How to Apply/Reverse Remediation
Remediations are accessed and managed from the Remediation tab within each assessment.
4.1 Information on the Remediation Tab
In the Remediation tab for an assessment, you will see a list of all questions from that assessment. Each question displays two key indicators:
Students Answered: The number of students who answered the question in any completed attempt. Remediation applies to all completed attempts containing that question.
Correct Rate (0–100%): The percentage of students who answered the question correctly, based on each student’s grade-determining attempt (their “highest” attempt).
💡 Tip: Filter by Correct Rate to quickly identify questions that may need remediation by using the All Rates filter.
Note: When question pools are used, the Remediation tab shows all questions that were presented across student attempts. This means the total may shown here be higher than the number of questions any one student saw on their quiz.
4.2 Applying a Remediation
Follow these steps to apply a remediation.
Click the three-dot menu next to the question to view available remediation actions.
Choose the remediation action:
Give Full Credit: All students who answered this question will receive full credit, regardless of their original answer.
Accept Additional Answers: In this case, you will be prompted to ‘Select additional options to accept as correct'. Students who selected these options will receive credit.
Exclude from Grading: This question will be excluded from all score calculations.
Review the confirmation dialogue, which shows the impact of the remediation before it is applied:
For cases where Grades will be Updated: A summary will be displayed listing the affected students, including their current score, projected score, and percentage change. This enables you to review and confirm the impact on student grades before applying the remediation.
For cases where There is No Impact on Student Grades: No grades will be affected based on the quiz's "highest" scoring strategy i.e. only the grade-determining attempt is considered. Students whose grade-determining attempt already reflects this change won't be affected.
Enter the required ‘Reason for Remediation’.
This provides context for why the change was made and serves as a record for yourself or other instructors/teaching assistants with access to the Blended Teaching Control Center. The ‘Reason for Remediation’ is not visible to students.
Click Apply Remediation to finalize the action.
Once applied, grades are updated immediately for all completed attempts within the Grades & Results tab for students and Gradebook & Moderate tab for Instructors.
4.3 Reversing a Remediation
Remediation actions can be reversed from the Remediation tab. Reversal automatically recalculates grades and is logged in the audit record. Follow these steps to reverse a remediation.
Locate the remediation you would like to reverse.
On the right hand side of the remediated question, click Undo.
Enter a reason for reversal and select Undo Remediation.
Note: The reason for reversal is only visible in the control center for your records, this is not visible to students.
5. Visibility
5.1 Instructor View
Remediation actions are visible in:
The Remediation tab (audit history showing action, instructor, reason).
The Moderate tab within each student's attempt.
Updated score calculations in the Gradebook.
How each action appears in Moderate tab:
Give Full Credit: The question is flagged as “Full Credit Given” along with the instructor’s name, date, and reason. The student’s original answer is highlighted in grey, without being marked correct or incorrect.
Accept Additional Answers: The question is flagged as “Additional Answer Accepted” with the instructor, date, and reason noted. The newly accepted answer is highlighted in green as “Correct Answer 1”, alongside the original correct answer.
Exclude from Grading: The question is flagged as “Excluded from Grading” with the instructor, date, and reason recorded. The entire question is highlighted in grey to indicate it no longer contributes to the student’s grade.
For each student attempt, the Moderate page displays a summary at the top showing:
Total percentage correct (e.g., 64%)
Number of questions correct out of total answered (e.g., 9 out of 14)
Total questions answered (e.g., 14)
Number of questions excluded from grading (e.g., 1)
Here you can quickly see the impact of excluded questions on each student’s overall score.
5.2 Student View
Students see remediation applied within the ‘Grades & Results’ tab in Blended Teaching accessed through their LMS. Each remediated question includes a banner indicating the action applied by the instructor.
Note: The images included may not reflect the same results display settings as your textbook. This example quiz is set to show:
Grades to students
Questions and student responses
Your students may see more or less information depending on your Results Display settings.
Give Full Credit: Includes a banner as ‘Full credit awarded by your instructor’. Only the student’s original answer is highlighted without being marked correct or incorrect.
Accept Additional Answers: Includes a banner as ‘Your answer was accepted as correct by your instructor’. The newly accepted answer is highlighted in green as “Correct Answer 1”, alongside the original correct answer (if set to be shown to students) and student’s selected answer.
Exclude from Grading: Includes a banner as ‘Not scored — This question was removed from grading by your instructor’. The entire question is highlighted in grey to indicate it no longer contributes to the student’s grade nor indicates the correct/incorrect answer.
FAQ
If I apply a remediation while an assessment is open will it apply to all submissions?
Yes. Remediations applied while an assessment is open apply to:
Existing submissions
Future submissions (including those in progress when the remediation was applied)
Do remediations apply to all attempts?
Yes, remediations apply to all attempts for an assessment. If an assessment allows each student 2 attempts, the remediations will apply to both.