As I am new to Buzz, can someone tell me how a student is to know why they got a problem incorrect on an assessment? Is there a function that we are missing?
Teachers may create feedback for individual questions and or on the overall activity. That feedback may be viewed by the student on their student activity stream page through their homepage, or, by viewing opening the activity in the activity player, or, through their student grades page where they would select the individual activities to view.
It depends. If you type feedback in the grade screen for an overall activity the student will see a speech bubble in their gradebook. They can click on the item to see the feedback.
Note I left that feedback for myself, not a student. ;)
As Brian mentioned, you can also assign feedback to a specific question. When you are writing your question there is a frame to create feedback.
You choose a rule for when the feedback is shown. You can select from always, when correct, or when incorrect. There is also a custom option. For example, we have videos explaining how to do select questions on an assignment. If a student submits an incorrect answer, the video comes up for them to watch.
You could use the custom option for common errors. So say the correct answer is supposed to be 3 feet, you could set a custom condition that says if the student answers 3 a message pops up saying "[y]ou forgot the units. Please try again."
Bruce Sharp Thank you for your explanation. This was very helpful. I can't seem to figure out how to add a video as feedback, as it seems I only have a text field for entering feedback. How do you add videos? Thanks in advance!
You need to click in the (invisible?!) feedback text box below the feedback rule. (See the screenshot below.) When you have the flashing insertion point, go to the main question editing menu and select either Insert YouTube Video (if your video is uploaded to YouTube), or Embed Content (if your video is saved elsewhere - like a Google Drive). Then, just navigate to your video.
I've sometimes experienced that clicking on the feedback text box, the menu options don't pop up or even disappear if they were already there so you can't click on them. In that case, click save. Reopen the activity in the editor and go to your question. Click in the feedback text box again and the editing options should be there.
Many of our students find these videos very helpful. Since we wrote most of our questions using variables, we don't mind giving them a video of the problem being worked out. When the students redo the question it will give them a slightly different problem. That helps to ensure they are learning the content and can't just type in the answer from the video.
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Hello Christena!
Teachers may create feedback for individual questions and or on the overall activity. That feedback may be viewed by the student on their student activity stream page through their homepage, or, by viewing opening the activity in the activity player, or, through their student grades page where they would select the individual activities to view.
Does this address your question?
Are students alerted when they have feedback?
It depends. If you type feedback in the grade screen for an overall activity the student will see a speech bubble in their gradebook. They can click on the item to see the feedback.
Note I left that feedback for myself, not a student. ;)
As Brian mentioned, you can also assign feedback to a specific question. When you are writing your question there is a frame to create feedback.
You choose a rule for when the feedback is shown. You can select from always, when correct, or when incorrect. There is also a custom option. For example, we have videos explaining how to do select questions on an assignment. If a student submits an incorrect answer, the video comes up for them to watch.
You could use the custom option for common errors. So say the correct answer is supposed to be 3 feet, you could set a custom condition that says if the student answers 3 a message pops up saying "[y]ou forgot the units. Please try again."
Bruce Sharp Thank you for your explanation. This was very helpful. I can't seem to figure out how to add a video as feedback, as it seems I only have a text field for entering feedback. How do you add videos? Thanks in advance!
Hi Melissa,
You need to click in the (invisible?!) feedback text box below the feedback rule. (See the screenshot below.) When you have the flashing insertion point, go to the main question editing menu and select either Insert YouTube Video (if your video is uploaded to YouTube), or Embed Content (if your video is saved elsewhere - like a Google Drive). Then, just navigate to your video.
I've sometimes experienced that clicking on the feedback text box, the menu options don't pop up or even disappear if they were already there so you can't click on them. In that case, click save. Reopen the activity in the editor and go to your question. Click in the feedback text box again and the editing options should be there.
Many of our students find these videos very helpful. Since we wrote most of our questions using variables, we don't mind giving them a video of the problem being worked out. When the students redo the question it will give them a slightly different problem. That helps to ensure they are learning the content and can't just type in the answer from the video.
Bruce Sharp Thank you SO much! Your help is truly appreciated.