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Edit Course Activity Settings

Change your default course settings for question submission, feedback, and scoring options.

These settings are not available for all MindTap courses.

For world language courses, see Edit Activity Settings for World Language Courses.

Important You cannot change settings for an activity after students have started work.

Activity types:

Why Does "This" Matter To Me?
Introduction to the chapter topics followed by a poll.
Learn It
Instructional content and assessment questions presented side-by-side to help students understand key concepts.
Apply It
Homework, assessments, and case study content to help build critical thinking skills.
Study It
Practice assessments to help students review key concepts.
Additional Resources
Videos and case studies with concepts from multiple chapters.
Quizzes and Tests
Evaluate student understanding without hints or multiple attempts.
Course Readiness
Assessment of prerequisite skills and concepts with follow-up activities to help students refresh their knowledge of essential topics before class.
  1. Click user icon your name > Course Settings > Activity Settings.
  2. Click an activity type to expand the course settings for that activity type.
  3. Change the feedback and scoring settings as needed.
    Note These settings do not affect manually graded Manually Graded questions.
    Question Attempts
    How many times the student can submit a question (1-10).
    Note For manually graded questions, only one attempt is allowed.
    Show Correctness Marks (✓ / ✗)
    When to show students their correct and incorrect answers.
    Show Correct Answer
    When to show students the answer key for the activity.
    Show Feedback
    When to show students any available hints or guidance for how to answer the question.
    Show Points Possible
    When to show students the available points for each question.
    Show Earned Score
    When to show students their earned points for each question.
    Grading Policy
    Count either the student's Best Attempt (recommended) or Last Attempt for the final activity score.
    Counts Toward Grade
    If turned on, the activity score is used as part of the overall course grade.
    Credit/No Credit
    If turned on, award full credit when the student achieves the threshold score. The threshold determines the point at which the score is 0 or 100.
  4. If needed, change the settings for other activity types.
  5. Click Save Settings & Close.