How do activities that my students start over appear in my teacher reports?

The "Start Over" link allows learners to restart practice exercises, quizzes, or unit tests after answering two questions incorrectly.

This guide for teachers explains how this link will be visible to students and details what happens when it's used, including the process for the bonus question.

📘Reporting implications for teachers: 

• The Individual Student Report (ISR) will indicate when a student used the "Start over" link, by showing "Used 'Start over'" in the Date column:
  • Here is an article from our Help Center with more information about how to access and use the Individual Student Report.
  • Below is a screenshot of how the "Start over" link will show on the ISR.

Some additional notes for teachers: 

• The Best Score will not reflect partial scores from activities where the "Start over" link was used
• The Responses Report will include responses from activities where the "Start over" link was used
• The count of attempts will include activities that were restarted 
  • Please note that the count of attempts is expected to increase as a result of introducing the "Start over" link

 

✅ List of all activities that have the "Start over" link available:

• Assigned and unassigned quizzes
• Assigned and unassigned Unit Tests
• Unassigned exercises
• Assigned exercises that have the “Different question set for each student” setting (please see the below screenshot for an example of this)

 

🚫 Activities that do not have the "Start over" link available :

• Mastery Challenges
• Course Challenges
• Assigned exercises, which have the “Same question set for all students” setting (please see the screenshot below for an example of this)

 

🔁 Bonus Questions as a Free Retry

If a learner gets one question wrong, a bonus question will appear at the end of the practice exercise set. If they answer it correctly, their previous mistake is erased, and they can still earn a "Proficient" score. Please note that bonus questions will not be available if a learner has incorrectly answered two or more questions.

For details on bonus questions, refer to the article: How do I earn "Proficient" on a practice exercise?

 

When clicked, the "Start over" link:

• Returns the learner to the start of the activity they were working on.
• Discards any potential mastery changes from that activity.
• Retains the learning time acquired on the activity before clicking the "Start over" link.

We truly appreciate the many students, parents, and teachers who wrote in over the years describing how a feature like this would benefit learners. 

Below are some additional resources that may help:

• Words from Khan Academy's Learning Science team
• How do I create assignments?
• How do I use the Assignment Scores report?
• Guide to Assignment teaching reports

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