Withdrawing/Setting Points of a Question

We've all been there. You spend hours pouring over an assignment, trying to select the best questions, hit that publish button and move on. Then the emails come in; a question has a typo, or other error. Fear not; there's a painless way to withdraw a question from a published assignment.

For assignments, click on the name of the offending question,

click on the withdraw/change points tab, and select the most appropriate button for your purposes.

Withdraw no credit will eliminate the points of this question from the total points of this assignment–it is as if this question (and it's points) are erased. Withdraw full credit offers all students the points of this assignment–everyone gets it correct and the question's points are retained in the total points of the assignment.

Active means students will be expected to answer the question for the amount of points in the box (in this case, zero).

(Either action will preserve the students' submissions on the "View Submissions" page.)

Extra Credit means if this problem is correct students will get +points to their assignment, even though these points will not be counted in the denominator total sum of the assignment (hence, extra credit)

Click 'Save' to update the assignment with this item withdrawn.

You can also use this page to offer extra credit! Marking a question active/extra credit means that the points listed will not be summed in the assignment's total points, but will be granted if students get it correct. If you want students to be able to miss one question and still get a perfect score you can mark any one question extra credit, and because the assignment points will total, this will functionally reach the goal.

Another possibility on this page is to change the number of points a question is worth. Just change the points and click save.

Additionally, on the homework page you can provide feedback about the problem with the question by hitting the little yellow flag icon on the right. That will take you to a page where you can indicate how we can fix the question for future usage: Reporting an error in a question.