Preview Scored Assignments and View Answer Keys with Activity Banks and Dynamic Variables (for Instructors)

Kim Wahlenmayer
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2 minutes

Cmu

From the Manage course landing page, navigate to Overview using the menu at the top.

Navigate using the right and left blue arrows to the contents.

Drill into the contents by clicking the titles.

Find the scored assignment to view and click Open as Instructor.

The assignment opens in a new tab.

In this scored assignment, the activities are selected from Activity Banks.\ \ Click "Preview activities" for any question. In this example, the first activity bank chooses 1 question so corresponds to the first question on the assignment.

The question(s) available for this activity bank selector open in a new tab.

From the resulting questions, find the question for viewing and click Answer Key to view the question, answer, correct and incorrect feedback.

To go back to the entire assignment to look at other questions, close the tab for the existing questions to return to the tab with the whole assignment.

To view the activities for another question, click Preview Activities on another Activity Bank Selection.

The new Activity Bank Selections open in a new tab.

This question has Dynamic Variables which generate for each attempt. In this example, one of the Dynamic Variables is @@acidconc@@.

Click "Answer Key" to see the correct answer and associated feedback. The correct answer will be a range of answers depending on the Dynamic Variable generated for the question.

The question may have an Explanation which is the full calculation of the correct answer. \ \ Explanations may appear for the student depending on the settings in the course materials. Commonly, Explanations, if they exist in the question, appear after the student completes their final attempt on a scored page or a set number of attempts on a practice page.