Subject: Does the system track when a student begins to take an online quiz?

4/5/2010

Dawn M. Houze
Director of Administrative Computing
Hanover College
Phone: (812)866-7032
houze@hanover.edu

Question to ListServ:

Does the system track when a student begins to take an online quiz? We have a student that says he submitted the quiz at 11:15 PM. The deadline was 11:55 PM and the quiz was automatically graded as zero points because it looks like the student did not submit the quiz. I didn’t know if there was some place to confirm the time the student was in the system. Thanks, Dawn

Responses from ListServ:

Elias Sardonis
Lead Information Architect
617.492.9099 x265
Jenzabar, Inc.
101 Huntington St, Suite 2205 | Boston, MA 02199
tel: 617.492.9099 | fax: 617.492.9081
www.jenzabar.net

• Based on cases like the one you mention, with our next big release (JICS 7.3) we will start adding a new row to the Student’s Coursework “Workflow” table when the student begins taking a test. This is meant to help adjudicate these cases where a student claims to have begun a test but was unable to submit properly (due to technical and/or personal reasons). Currently you have to rely (or not) on the student’s word, but with this feature the action of beginning a test will be officially tracked and should put an end to this sort of ambiguity.
• Additionally, the upcoming Usage Statistics feature (due in 7.3 or 7.4) will provide faculty who need to dig deeper in this sort of case a way to get a detailed view of a student’s activity in the course for a given timeframe, making it even easier to get a clear picture of the validity of these claims prior to granting a retake.
• Sorry we don’t have a good solution for you for this case, but this type of issue should soon be a thing of the past, -e.

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