You can penalize multiple submissions to encourage your students to
focus on completing the problem correctly the first time and discourage
hasty off-the cuff responses.
Best Practice This kind of penalty is best used
for free-response questions like chemPad, mathPad, or NumberLine.
For multiple-choice questions, appropriately limiting the number of submissions
or penalizing incorrect responses is more effective.
Open the Conditional Points window.
From here
Do this
From assignment settings (Assignment Editor, Assignment Templates
Manager)
Under Automatic Point Adjustments > Bonus or Penalty, click add or
edit.
From a single question (Assignment Editor)
In the Bonus or Penalty column, click
add or edit.
Under Select a Condition, select Deduct
credit based on the number of submissions.
Enter the penalty that should be applied with each additional submission
and the number of submissions that are allowed before a penalty is applied.
For example, if you specify a penalty of 25% for each submission used beyond 2,
your students will receive full credit for the first 2 submissions, 75% for the third
submission, 50% for the fourth submission, and so on.
If you do not want your students ever to receive a negative number of
points, ensure that Lowest score possible is 0
is selected.
If available, click Calculate Points
Breakdown. This feature is not available when editing
conditional points for assignment settings.
Review the displayed deductions for each number of submissions. If needed, change
the
penalty or number of submissions and click Calculate Points
Breakdown again.
When the conditional points settings are correct, update the assignment.
To update this
Do this
A single question
Click Update Question.
All questions currently on the assignment
Click Update All Questions.
Assignment settings
In the Assignment Editor, click Update.
The Conditional Points window closes and your assignment is updated.
The automatic bonus or penalty is applied
immediately when your students submit answers that meet the specified
conditions.
Remember to save your changes in the Assignment Editor.
