U003 – Correction auto-update / Can I still change a widget after students have sent in their answers?
Yes, partially.
BookWidgets' Update autocorrection with latest widget version feature lets you make changes to a widget after your students have already sent in their results. The option will automatically re-grade these results according to your changes.
You can change two things:
- You can change the scoring weight of a question (e.g. when you forgot to configure it, or you configured it incorrectly).
- You can change what the correct answer is in the following question types of a Quiz or Worksheet:
- Multiple choice
- Short answer
- Fill-in-the-blanks
- Table question
- Annotate picture
Take into account that the following operations are not possible:
- adding or removing questions;
- moving questions, i.e.: changing their order;
- adding or removing answer options in the question types Multiple Choice and Annotate Picture;
- adding or removing rows or columns in a Table Question table;
- changing the cell type of a Table Question table cell;
- adding, moving, replacing or deleting any image, in any location.
Doing any of the above will put new submissions into a separate section. If you've already made such changes and are wondering how to undo them, see below.
Updating the autocorrection with the latest widget version
- Go to the widget editor of the widget in question and make the desired modification.
- Update the widget.
Updating the widget will first make sure that future submissions will correspond to the new version. Next, the submissions already received will need to be recalculated according to the new parameters:
- Go to Review in your BookWidgets account, and open the student work that has the submissions.
- Click "More" and choose Update autocorrection with latest widget version.
Now, all answers will be automatically graded again, based on the widget or test you just changed. The scores of your students will be adapted correspondingly.
I've already made changes that messed up the results. Can I still fix it?
Yes. You can still restore the last version of the widget that still worked. Click here for instructions on how to restore a previous version of a widget.