Quizzes - Regrading Questions

Occasionally, you will find that one of the questions on a quiz activity is incorrect or invalid. Follow the steps in this tutorial to adjust the problematic question and run a regrade for all (or selected) quiz attempts.

Step 1

In your Moodle course, click on the quiz with a question you need to regrade. On the resulting screen, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of your screen. Select Edit quiz.

Image example of a Quiz highlighted with a blue arrow

Step 2

Click the Questions link in the upper menu to view the Quiz questions

Image of the Questions option highlighted in blue

Step 3 Locate the problematic question and click the gear icon.

Image highlighting a sample gear icon

Step 4 Here you can edit the quiz wording or change the correct answer as needed. 

Image highlighting the Grade field in blue

Step 5 Scroll down and click Save changes.

Image of the Save Changes button

Step 6 Once complete choose Results in the upper menu, then Grades in the dropdown.

Image highlighting the Results option with a blue arow highlighting the Grades option

Step 7 On this page, when you scroll down, you'll see the list of student attempts on the quiz. Next to the students' names on the left, check the box of any student whose grade you'd like to update. (You can also click the checkbox at the top of the list, which will select all attempts.)

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Step 8 Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the Regrade selected attempts button.

When the regrade is done, click the Continue button to return to the Responses page.

Image highlighting the Regrade selected attempts button in blue

Step 9 You will now see the original score for each student crossed out on the question as well as the overall grade for the test. Question updated:


Overall test score updated:


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

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