Anyone familiar with the Assessment options in Content for Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes?

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Amanda.King-Spezzo71
Amanda.King-Spezzo71 Posts: 17 🌱
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A faculty member asked one of our campus admins about the Assessment options in Content, and I never noticed this option before. From my testing, I was able to change points, choose an existing Grade Item, or create a new Grade Item. Upon selecting an existing Grade Item, that selection still showed when editing my test Assignment.  I searched the Brightspace Community, but I couldn't find any related articles. Can anyone point me to details on this feature or know when it was implemented? Thanks, Amanda
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  • Meredith.Stewart45
    Meredith.Stewart45 Posts: 31
    edited November 2022

    This has been around for a while and the only time I've seen it used is to connect data from a SCORM object to the gradebook. If you bring in a SCORM object and then later decide that you want the score from a quiz inside the object to be sent to Grades, then you could use this feature. Similarly, if you ask the system to create a grade item when you bring in the SCORM object and change your mind about it later, you can disassociate the object from Grades.

    I'm interested to hear if others have different use cases for it!

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  • Amanda.King-Spezzo71
    Amanda.King-Spezzo71 Posts: 17 🌱
    edited November 2022

    Hi, Meredith.

    Thank you for the info! I'll share this back with our admins. An admin from a different campus shared this example:

     

    This is also where some LTI tools link to grade items -- or where a link can be broken. If you just delete a link to a third-party tool, the grade item may linger and D2L support has to delete it. If you change the assessment option in this drop-down to break the link, the grade item can be deleted with no problems.

     

    Best, Amanda

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  • Meredith.Stewart45
    Meredith.Stewart45 Posts: 31
    edited November 2022

    Thanks for adding that great info, Amanda!

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