Course assessments: Rescoring

You can change the correct answer setup in an assessment after students have already completed it. If edits change the correct answer, the existing submissions will be automatically rescored.

Scores are based on the assessment content and answer criteria at the time the assessment began. Rescoring should not be run while students are still taking the assessment.

Rescore submissions

Rescoring is available for the following question types:

• Multiple choice

• True or false

• Matching

• Ordering

• Fill in the blank text

• Fill in the blank dropdown

• Fill in the blank drag and drop

• Label image

• Highlight hotspot

• Highlight text

• Number line

• Chart

Rescore an assessment

1. Navigate to a course.

2. Click the assessment name.

3. Select Questions.

4. Click the three dots icon for the selected questions and choose Edit.

5. From Correct Answer Setup, make the necessary changes.

6. Click Save.
   You’ll be asked to rescore any existing submissions for the item you saved. Select Rescore Submissions to confirm, or Don’t Rescore to skip. If you skip by mistake, return to Edit Question mode and select Rescore Submissions when ready. Rescored submissions are automatically updated in the assessment and gradebook.

Additional information and best practices

• After rescoring, submissions are still displayed to students as they were at the time of submission. This preserves the integrity of each submission.

• The following message appears for instructors and students next to each rescored item: This item has been rescored, and the preview may not display the correct answer.

• Rescoring may take a few minutes. If it takes longer than one hour, contact Schoology Support.

Editing guidelines

• Scores are based on students’ selected answers, not the content of the answer choices.

  • Do not edit the text of answer choices if it changes which answer is correct.

  • To reorder answers, use Correct Answer Setup to drag and drop the choices into the correct order. Changing the text itself will not trigger a rescore.

• Adding new content, such as new answer choices, can prevent the rescore from running properly. In these cases, it’s best to create a new assessment instead of using the rescore option.

Edits that generate a rescore

• Editing the Correct Answer Setup.

• Editing Possible Answers in a matching question type.
  For example, fixing a misspelling causes existing submissions to be scored incorrectly since the updated answer no longer matches. In this case, save your changes and opt out of rescoring.

• Adding new content or removing options will generate a rescore.
  Since new content is being added, consider creating a new assessment rather than rescoring.

• Changing answer options to lowercase or uppercase in matching, fill in the blank dropdown, fill-in-the-blank drag and drop, label image, and number line.
  These question types are case-sensitive.

• Editing Point label content in chart.
  This question type is case sensitive.

• Enabling or disabling the Case Sensitive option in fill in the blank.