What are Advanced Marking Options?
Advanced Marking Options let you customize how each question is graded. This includes:
Setting the weight of each question
Controlling the grading scheme
Creating bonus questions
Accessing Advanced Marking Options
1. Click on "Edit Assessment" on your course dashboard.
2. Next to the desired question, click the Change marking button.
If you imported your questions, this button is located to the left of the desired question.
If you entered your answer key, this button is located to the right of each question.
3. Make the desired change by changing the question weight, grading scheme, or enable the bonus toggle.
Changes will automatically be saved and any test sheets that have been uploaded to the assessment will be automatically regraded.
Question Weight
What is Question Weight?
Question weight is the number of marks that the student can earn for answering the question correctly. By default, the question weight is set to one (1).
A question can be worth multiple marks, partial marks, or zero marks.
💡 A question worth zero (0) marks will still be included in the results analysis, but will not affect a student’s mark/grade. This can be useful for survey questions, or to “remove” a question from a test.
Changing Question Weight
1. Next to the desired question, click the Change marking button.
If you imported your questions, this button is located to the left of the desired question.
If you entered your answer key, this button is located to the right of each question.
2. In the 'Points' text box, type the desired number points for this question.
3. Changes will be saved automatically.
The number of total points will be reflected on the left-menu summary.
💡 Bulk Changes
Change the weight for all questions at once, using bulk changes. Learn more about bulk changes.
Grading Scheme
What are grading schemes?
Grading scheme is how Akindi grades the questions and awards marks to the student.
Akindi offers three grading schemes: to customize how the students will be graded:
Grading Scheme | Description | Common Use Cases | Example |
Exact Mark (default) | The students have to select all of the correct response(s) in order to be awarded full marks. | - Single-select questions - All-or-nothing multi-select questions | If the answer is AD, a student selecting only A or only D will earn zero. |
Partial Mark | The students will be awarded a partial mark for each correct response, up to the full weight of the question. | - Select-all-that-apply questions | If the answer is AD, a student will earn 0.5 for selecting A or D. Selecting AD earns full marks. |
Either or | The students will be awarded full marks for selecting any of the correct responses. | - Multi-select questions - Boosting the class average | If the answer is AD, a student selecting A, D, or AD earns full marks. |
💡 Creating select-all-that-apply questions?
Visit the partial mark grading guide for in-depth instructions on how to set up your questions or learn how partial mark questions are graded.
Changing grading scheme
1. Next to the desired question, click the Change marking button.
If you imported your questions, this button is located to the left of the desired question.
If you entered your answer key, this button is located to the right of each question.
2. Select the desired grading scheme: Exact, Partial, Either or.
3. Changes will be saved automatically. Any test sheets uploaded to your assessment will be automatically re-graded.
The grading scheme will be added to the question's change marking button.
Bonus Question
What is a bonus question?
A 'bonus' question is a question in which the student will still be awarded for answering the question correctly, but the question will not be counted towards the total marks of the assessment.
With 'bonus' questions, students could score over 100% on the assessment.
Example of how a bonus question will affect students' grades.
| Student's mark without 'bonus' question | Student's mark with 'bonus' question |
Student #1 | 50/50 (100%) | 50/49 (102%) |
Student #2 | 25/50 (50%) | 25/49 (51%) |
Student #3 | 12/50 (24%) | 12/49 (24.5%) |
Create a bonus question
1. Next to the desired question, click the Change marking button.
If you imported your questions, this button is located to the left of the desired question.
If you entered your answer key, this button is located to the right of each question.
2. Enable the 'Bonus' toggle.
3. Changes will be saved automatically. Any test sheets uploaded to your assessment will be automatically re-graded.
A bonus icon will be added to the question's change marking button.
The number of bonus points will be reflected on the left-menu summary.
