Exams Category

System administrators can use the table below to help them configure the system configuration settings in the Exams category.

To configure Exams settings, go to Manage Center > System > System Configuration and select Exams from the Select a category drop-down list.

Table: System Configuration Settings: Exams Category

Setting	Type	Description
Grading for Multiple Choice Questions	Single selection	Select the type of grading to use for multiple choice questions: All or Nothing Uniform Partial Credit All or Nothing Only full points or zero points can be awarded for the question. For example, if there are two corrected answers, but only one is selected, zero points are awarded. Uniform Partial Credit Each correct choice or non-choice is worth 1/n of the total value, where n is the number of choices. For example, given a five-choice question (A, B, C, D, E), where A and B are the correct answers: The response A and B is awarded 1 The response A, B, and C is awarded ⅘ The response A is awarded ⅘ The response A and D is awarded ⅗ The response C and D is awarded 0 Zero points are awarded if: The question is unanswered All choices are selected (the participant is guessing) No correct choices are selected If Uniform Partial Credit and penalty points are configured, each incorrect choice within a given question will be proportionally penalized and the score for the question will always be a value between zero and the full weight. In Exam Reviews, questions awarded less than full points will be displayed to the user as incorrect.
Display section page for timed exam	Check box	Select this check box to time the section review and question activity for timed, navigation-based exams. The section page will be shown at the start of each new section. Clear this check box to time only the question activity.
Display expired question in exam	Check box	Select this check box to include any expired questions in an exam if they were selected to be part of the exam prior to expiration. This setting applies to both fixed sections and random sections (including the expired question that was randomly drawn prior to its expiration).
Display retired question in exam	Check box	Select this check box to include any retired questions in an exam if they were selected to be part of the exam prior to expiration. This setting applies to both fixed sections and random sections (including the expired question that was randomly drawn prior to its expiration).
New Questions Have Public Permissions	Check box	Select this check box to assign Unrestricted (All) permissions to new questions added to a question pool, instead of assigning owner only permissions. This option is especially useful if you want to control access to questions at the question pool level rather than having to maintain permissions for each and every question. Note that restricting access to read-only on a question pool still leaves the questions themselves unrestricted.
Show instance number	Check box	Select this check box to show the exam instance number in exam reviews. Each exam instance can include different questions drawn from question pools assigned to the exam template.
Lock frame bar during exam delivery	Check box	Select this check box to lock the frame bars in exam delivery, so that they cannot be resized.
Show question pool	Check box	Select this check box to display, during exams, the full question pool description that questions are assigned to.
Show question pool in exam editor	Check box	Select this check box to display the question pool that the question has been assigned to in the left panel of the exam editor. The lowest three levels will be displayed.
Is Comment Mandatory on Question Status Change	Check box	Select this check box to require the approver to leave a comment when changing the status of the question.
Default Passing Grade	Number	Enter the default passing grade to display in the Exam Editor for new exams. (Changing this value does not affect existing exams.)
Default Pool Summary Level	Number (Min=0, Max=16)	Enter the question pool level at which performance feedback is grouped (that is, summarized) at the end of each exam. Changing this value applies it to new exams only. Enter 0 for no summary.
Question Approval Mode	Single selection	Select the approval mode for question status changes: Only allow status changes that are consistent with approval workflow (Approval Mode). Allow arbitrary status changes (Simple Mode) In simple mode, when a question is re-opened from active status, the old version of the question will not be saved.
Report Exam Course Score as Indicated by Marking Type	Check box	Typically, online courses configured with an exam as the launch URL report the final exam score as points. Select this check box to report the score as points or percentage, as specified by the marking type for the exam. Selecting or clearing this check box does not change the score for online courses with previously reported exam scores. This setting applies only to exams configured as a launch URL, not to exams attached to a course.
Check for missing answer(s) before continuing to next page	Single selection	Select an option to specify whether learners can skip exam questions: All question(s) on page must be answered Allow user to skip question(s)
Learning modules launched as exams are of	Drop-down list	Select the learning type for learning modules launched as exams (that is, exams created using the Generate Exam Module option). If the selected learning type is disabled in the LMS, the learning modules launched as exams will be assigned the Online learning type. Changing this setting and saving the System Configuration migrates all learning modules launched as exams to the selected learning type.
Allow Non-Gradable Exam Type To Mark Course as Completed	Check box	Select this check box to enable the completion of a Survey exam type to update the user's transcript status for the course to Completed.
Questions Pending Approval Reminder Template	Selector	Click the browse icon to select the email template used to send emails to question approvers when there are questions pending approval. They are sent at the frequency configured in individual question pools.
Show Exam Disclaimer	Check box	Select this check box to display disclaimer message when a learner launches an exam. They must confirm reading the disclaimer before they can launch the exam. The disclaimer contains standard text that asks the user to confirm their LMS User ID and that they wish to proceed with the exam.

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