What are Advanced Marking Options?
Akindi's Advanced Marking options allow instructors to customize how each question is graded. This includes:
Advanced marking options allow instructors to control the weight and marking scheme of each question and answer and create Bonus Questions.
Turning on Advanced Marking Options
1. To turn on Advanced Marking, click 'Edit Answer Key' on your course dashboard.
2. Click the ‘Display Advanced Marking’ toggle.
3. Make the desired change. The changes will automatically be saved and any test sheets that have been uploaded to the assessment will be automatically regraded.
💡 Advanced Marking options can also be viewed and edited from the 'Responses' tab when viewing the results. Learn more editing the answer key from the 'Responses' tab.
Question Weight
What is Question Weight?
Question weight is the number of marks that the student can be 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.
Setting Question Weight
Type the desired number of marks for into the text box.
💡 To change all the question weights at once, use the 'Bulk Changes' feature.
Grading Scheme
What is the Grading Scheme?
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:
Exact Mark
Partial Mark
Either Or
Grading Scheme | Description | Common Use Cases |
Exact Mark Akindi's default grading scheme | The students will have to select all of the correct response(s) in order to be awarded full marks. | - Single-select questions - Multi-select questions |
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 |
Either Or | The students will be awarded full marks for selecting any of the correct responses. | - Multi-select questions - Boosting the class average |
Exact mark
Exact Mark is Akindi's default marking scheme.
With the Exact Mark grading scheme, the student’s response must exactly match the instructor's answer key in order to be awarded full credit on the question.
For Example, If the answer is AD, the student will only be awarded a mark for selecting both A and C. If the student selects only A or only D, the student will be given a mark of zero.
Partial Mark
The student is awarded partial marks for each correct response up to the full weight of the question.
If you select 'Deduct incorrect answers', Akindi will award students a partial mark for each correct response and deduct a partial for each incorrect response. Akindi will not allow the question score to go below zero.
Either Or
A student will receive full marks for selecting any of the valid responses.
For example, if the Answer is A or C, the student will receive full marks for selecting A or C or AC, but will receive a score of zero for answering any incorrect answers.
Comparing the Grading Schemes
Below is a breakdown comparing how the students will be awarded for each grading scheme.
Example 1: The answer key is 'AB'.
Student's Response | 'AB' Exact Mark | 'AB' Partial Mark | 'AB' 'Either Or' |
A | 0 | 0.5 | 1 |
B | 0 | 0.5 | 1 |
AB | 1 | 1 | 1 |
ABC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to change the Grading Scheme
Select the desired grading scheme from the dropdown menu.
Example 2: The answer key is 'ABC'.
Student's Response | 'ABC' Exact Mark | 'ABC' Partial Mark | 'ABC' 'Either Or' |
A | 0 | 0.33 | 1 |
B | 0 | 0.33 | 1 |
AB | 0 | 0.67 | 1 |
ABC | 1 | 1 | 1 |
ABCD | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Creating 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.
To create a bonus question in Akindi, select the 'Bonus' check-box.
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%) |
How to indicate a Bonus question
Click the 'Bonus' checkbox.
