6. Saving, Submitting, and Receiving Feedback

At anytime while working on an assignment, you may click Save Work, if your instructor made this link available. After you save your work, your answers will be available to you the next time you view the assignment, but only after clicking View Saved Work above the question or View All Saved Work in the About this Assignment area.

When you have answered some or all of the questions on an assignment, you submit your answers by clicking Submit New Answers To Question 1 at the end of a question or Submit all questions at the end of your assignment. Your assignment may have Submit Whole Question at the end of a question or only a submit at the end of the assignment.

Depending on how your instructor has chosen to administer this assignment, you may receive feedback immediately—possibly receiving your score on each question and your whole assignment with correct and incorrect marks. After an assignment is past due, instructors usually have the feedback set to deliver the answer key.

To ensure that your submission is recorded, wait for a reply from the server. Do not click more than once on the submit button.

There are differences in how submissions are counted depending on if you are allowed submission of each question part or if the submission of the entire question or assignment is required. See the next section.

You can tell how an assignment is setup by clicking Submission Options at the top of the assignment. For assignments that allow submission of each question part, clicking Submission Options displays the following popup window:

The number of submissions allowed is set up by the instructor and can be different for each question part on the assignment.

If the instructor allows submissions by individual question parts, the first time you answer and submit a question will count as your first submission of that question. If you make a change to the answer and resubmit the question, that will count as your second submission. If you do not make a change to an answer, subsequent submissions of the answer do not count as additional submissions.

For example, if you submit a question with the following answers, you use up 2 submissions:

The first submission does not count as a submission for this question because you did not enter an answer. The second submission counts because you entered 2.01. The third submission also counts because you changed your answer to 20.1. The last submission does not count because you did not change your answer.

Once you have submitted the allowed number of different answers, your last answer becomes fixed and will no longer be editable.

The example below shows a student assignment after the student has submitted various parts of the first question several times.

The detail for question 1 lists the number of the question part, the score earned, the total score possible, and the number of submissions out of the maximum possible. Row 1 relates to the first part of the question, in this case (a). Row 2 relates to the second part of the question, in this case (b), row 3 relates to part (c) and row 4 relates to part (d). The final row gives the total points earned out of the total possible. The following table explains the meaning of each row.

For assignments that require submission of each question, clicking Submission Options displays the following popup window:

The number of submissions allowed is set up by the instructor and can be different for each question on the assignment, but not for each question part. When you submit a question, all parts of the question will be graded whether answered or not and you will use up one submission. The submission link for such an assignment is Submit Whole Question.

For the following screen, the student has entered answers for part (a) only and then clicked Submit Whole Question. The submission counted as 1 of the 5 submissions allowed.

For assignments that require submission of the entire assignment, clicking Submission Options displays the following popup window:

If you see only Submit All Questions at the end of your assignment, your instructor has turned off per question submissions. For assignments like this, you will see how many submission you have made in the About this Assignment area at the top. Each time you click Submit All Questions will count as a submission of all questions, whether you change an answer or not.

For the following screen, the student has submitted the assignment 1 out of 5 times allowed and received 3 out of 4 points.

After you submit your assignment for grading, WebAssign will record and grade your work. For most assignments, you will receive some sort of feedback in return—including different combinations of receiving the total score that you earned, the score for each question, your entire assignment with correct and incorrect marks, and answers to the questions included on the assignment. Options also allow your instructor to provide hints or detailed solutions to questions.

Depending on how your instructor chooses to administer the assignment, you may receive one or more of the following along with the assignment after you submit and after the assignment is past due.

Quite often your feedback page will look something like this. It will show you marks for correct and incorrect answers, earned points for each question part, the assignment total score, and have a popup to show you your question score summary.

If your instructor turned off the ability to save and all types of feedback except the assignment score, your page after submission would look something like this:

You cannot see what you entered or which questions and question parts are correct. All you know is you have 3 points out of a possible 8.

If you are permitted by your instructor to see the key after the due date, you will be warned that viewing the key makes it very unlikely that you would be granted an extension on the assignment. If you ever need an extension on an assignment because of personal or technical problems, your instructor is the only one who can grant an extension, not the WebAssign administrators.