Feedback and live marking

Feedback and live marking provides you with options to display feedback in the test player during or after a test. Below is an example of an item in a test with the selected response highlighted as correct and feedback relating to that selection underneath.

Note that feedback and live marking only applies to some system marked items.

Feedback and live marking serve two distinct end purposes:

Contextual feedback displayed to test-takers in the testplayer, during a live test, to help provide information to test-takers as to why their response is correct/incorrect. Please note that this is only available for multiple choice item types.
Contextual feedback displayed in the testplayer which teachers can access via the Guttman and question summary reports, and test-takers can access through their candidate dashboard. This feature is only available for multiple choice, multiple choices, keyword, and hotspot interaction item types.

You can set feedback and live marking for one or both of the above purposes.

Once you have created your item, the Feedback and Live Marking section displays.

Edit feedback and live marking

Select the pencil icon to open the Feedback and Live Marking section in edit mode.

Note that you must enable Live Marking of Items in the test section. This is covered below in detail.

Enable Live Marking and Feedback for this item should be checked by default, if not, select it.

Select Show Outcome and Correct Response.

This is what you would expect to see if you select Show Outcome and Correct Response. The Outcome is the option that the test-taker selected, the Correct Response is the field with the response feedback.

Correct / Incorrect Response Feedback

In the Display Options dropdown, select Display in the test Player AND Preview. This will make the feedback display to the test-taker during the test and display to test authors in the item preview feature.

Further down this section you have options to set your custom feedback. You could also use the system auto generated feedback which displays in the Default Feedback editor.

Note that if you leave Use Auto-Generated Feedback checked and enter your custom feedback in the fields further down the screen, the system will select to use your custom feedback rather than the Default Feedback displaying here.

Additional Information

This section provides options for you to set your custom feedback.

Enter the text you would like test-takers to see if a response is correct and another if a response is incorrect and Save.

Hide feedback from test-takers during a test

To hide feedback from test-takers during a live test, set Live Marking Format to Off and set Display Options to Display in Preview Only.

Note that the feedback accessed from the reports and the candidate dashboard will still be available.

Test sections

When you create a test section for your items, ensure that Live Marking of Items is enabled.

The system will restrict the navigation type to Linear when live marking is enabled for the test section.

Settings

Note that some settings are only available to system administrators.

The SPA plugin needs to enabled on your site. Your Janison account manager will enable this plugin for you.
You will need to enable Feedback and Live Marking Support.

Navigate to Settings > Test Designer Settings and expand the Questions options section. Check the Feedback and Live Marking Support option.

You can also set the default options which the system will set at an item level when you create it. You can override this per item.

Defaults

At an item level the Live Marking Format and Display Options fields are available. You can set default values here in the two fields highlighted in the screen capture below

Default Live Marking Format – Options are Off, Show Outcome Only and Show Outcome and Correct Response

Default Correct / Incorrect Response Feedback Display Option – Options are Off, Display in the Test Player AND Preview, or Display in Preview Only.