[ARCHIVED] How does analytics record quiz participation when students can make more than one attempt?

[johnb]

Morning All,

I understand that starting a quiz and submitting a quiz each registers as a ´participation´ for analytic reporting purposes.

My question is, in a case where a student can attempt a quiz more than once, are the start and/or submission of each quiz attempt recorded as separate participations?

In my case, I have a quiz with multiple attempts where students must get all answers correct before unlocking a piece of video content. If Student A gets all of the questions correct on their first attempt, this is reported as two participations (1 x start quiz, 1 x submit quiz). If Student B needs to re-attempt the quiz because they got a question/questions incorrect on their first attempt, will this be reported as two or four participations?

Thanks in advance for your help in clarifying this for me.

jb

[bbennett2 · Accepted solution]

From what I can tell, each participation is unique, even if it's on the same assignment according to this documentation. I'm not teaching a course this semester, but I would expect each attempt to be recorded separately.

[johnb]

Hi @bbennett2 ,

Many thanks for getting back to me and I hope all is well with you. 

I had figured as much myself but wanted to check as we are planning on presenting this data in-house and just wanted to double-check that my understanding was correct.

Best Wishes,

jb

[sbridge]

My students have submitted a New Quiz on 9/18, I can see and grade their submission but their participations in New Analytics shows last participation as 9/11.  I'm so confused.

[bbennett2]

We've had some weird issues with New Analytics being way behind as well. They're supposed to update every 24 hours, but we often see gaps much larger than that. I've advised my teachers to check assignment submission timestamps first. You can do this by looking in the SpeedGrader or by looking at the student's individual gradebook. You can click an assignment title in the individual view which shows when they submitted.