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Why do some students have a question mark icon instead of a score for a particular exercise in a formative assessment?

Learn why this question mark icon appears instead of a score for a particular exercise in a formative assessment

Written by Brittany Doerbecker

When reviewing your students' test answers, you may see some exercises for which some students have a question mark icon instead of a score. This is not an un-evaluated answer and is expected behaviour on our platform.

What does the question mark icon mean?

If an exercise has been changed, edited, or updated during the assessment’s opening window, any students who completed an older version of the exercise as part of their assessment will receive a question mark icon as their score for that specific exercise. Because they do not have a score for the current version of the exercise, they are given a question mark icon instead.

What does this mean for the student's overall score?

The score the student achieved on the previous version of the exercise is counted toward their final grade.

For example, if an assessment contains 2 questions. The student answers the first correctly and the second incorrectly, their score is 50%. If the first question is then updated, their overall score will remain at 50% as at the time of their attempt, this was the only version of the exercise available and they earned points by answering that version correctly.

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