Activities & assessment
Attempts, scoring and grades
Attempt limits, the four scoring rules, and how a whole experience becomes one grade.
Attempts
Each placement has an attempt allowance. Leave it unlimited, or set a number. A learner who has attempts left can resume an unfinished one or start the next; a learner who has used them all sees their result and cannot start again.
Nothing deletes an attempt except deleting the whole experience permanently. There is no "clear this learner's attempt" button, on purpose: an assessment record you can quietly erase is not a record.
Scoring rules
When a learner has several attempts at one placement, the rule decides which one counts:
- Highest — their best. Rewards persistence. The usual choice for practice.
- Latest — their most recent. Rewards improvement, and is honest about where they have got to.
- First — one shot that counts. For a genuine check.
- Mean — the average. Smooths out a fluke either way.
Showing history
You can let learners see their own previous attempts, or not. Showing history helps with practice; hiding it is usually right when the first attempt is the one that counts.
- Not startedCounts as zero towards the grade.
- In progressThey can leave and come back to it.
- SubmittedScored by the rule you chose.
- Another attemptIf you allowed more than one.
- Out of attemptsThe best, latest, first or mean is kept.
One experience, one grade
An experience produces a single 0–1 result, whatever is inside it.
It is the average across every placement you made. An activity a learner never attempted scores zero — it is part of what you asked for, so ignoring it would flatter the result. Each placement is first reduced to one number by its own scoring rule, then those are averaged.
Some activities record a score out of a maximum; some record only that the learner completed them. An activity with no score is judged on completion.
Progress stays Started until every placement has been submitted, and the grade is posted once, at the end.
If that grade is refused by your LMS, the workspace's leaders and the organisation's admins get a notification saying so — see Connecting your LMS with LTI 1.3.