Assignment Time Estimates

Assignment times are the estimated amount of time a student spent online working on assignments. Assignment time estimates can be viewed on the Scores and Scoreview pages.

Important: Student time estimates for assignments are valid if answers were submitted after January 1, 2012.

Time on the Scores page is the estimated amount of time it took a student to complete the displayed assignment. Time on the Scoreview page is the estimated amount of time it took a student to complete all of the assignments shown on the page. Time estimates are updated once daily, so there might be some lag between when a student completes an assignment and when you can view the time on the Scores or ScoreView pages.

Multiple submissions and time spent on saved work are included in the assignment time. These times are considered estimates because WebAssign cannot account for time a student might have spent working on an assignment offline, or the amount of time a student might have spent logged into an assignment but not actively working on it. For example, if a student walks away from the computer while working on a question without saving or submitting work, the time estimate will be skewed by the time spent away from the computer.

Assignment time estimates can be used to compare student performance, identify when students are having problems with a particular assignment, and identify when an assignment might be much easier than other assignments in a class.