Penalize Multiple Submissions

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.

1. 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.

2. Under Select a Condition, select Deduct credit based on the number of submissions.
3. 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.
4. If you do not want your students ever to receive a negative number of points, ensure that Lowest score possible is 0 is selected.
5. 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.

6. 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.