Essay questions ask students to answer with a long answer or essay.
Pearson Connexus lets you provide an example answer and feedback that students can immediately receive and review.
You can also allow students to record and upload video or audio responses as part of an essay question.
Note: Because Practice questions activities are meant to give students immediate feedback to respond to, essay questions are not available in them.
Create Essay questions
Essay questions can be added to assessments.
- Add the Assessment activity.
- Add an essay question to the activity.
- Follow the directions, below.
Question content
- Specify how many Points the question is worth.
- Enter the question as you want it displayed to students.
- If enabled in your domain, you can also allow students to record and upload video or audio responses as part of the essay question.
- Enter an Example Answer that is used by graders to compare and evaluate students' answers.
- Note: Pearson Connexus does not include the Example Answer header shown in the image for students, allowing you to format and choose your headers for Example answers and Feedback.
- This section pictures and explains the default visual editor; enable the Text editorto create and edit questions with the advanced Text editor.
Interaction
To manage the question's Interaction:
- Specify the initial number of lines you want to provide students in the Minimum height field (the field will automatically expand to accommodate content added by the student).
- Provide a Minimum and Maximum number of words if desired. Students are shown these guidelines and their own word count; however, they are allowed to submit an answer even if they have not met the guidelines.
- If one or more passages have been included in the activity, you can select one to attach to this question from the Include passage dropdown.
- Provide a Custom question definition (contact support for additional assistance).
Metadata
The Metadata card lets you attach information to questions:
- Assign a difficulty level to each question can help track your overall assessment difficulty.
- Add a question to an existing group.
- When putting questions in an assessment activity, groups are used to assign questions to assessment question pools.
- When putting questions in a practice questions activity, Groups are used to assign questions specific attempt limits.
- The question ID is a unique identifier for this question.
Objective mastery
From the Objective mastery card, you can align the question with objective(s).
This makes it possible to set up Formative and Remediation assessments.
Score
Use the Score card to indicate:
- If you want to allow for Partial credit.
- And, if so, if you want to automatically Round the score.
- If you want the question to count as Extra credit.
Variables
With the Variables section, you can create a range or list of variables for use in the question.
Calculator
Check the appropriate box(es) to provide students with one or more of the following calculators to use with this question (Basic, Standard, and/or Scientific). This can also be specified for the entire activity with the Assessment activity editor.
Protractor
Make a protractor available to students while they complete this question. This can also be specified for the entire activity with the Assessment activity editor.
Ruler
Make one or more rulers (6 inch, 12 inch, 15 centimeter, 30 centimeter) available to students while they complete this question. This can also be specified for the entire activity with the Assessment activity editor.
Companion Material
Click Add material in Companion Material to attach any supplemental documents students need to complete this question. You can do this by:
- Pointing to existing resources in the course.
- Uploading new files (PDFs only).
Students can access Companion material by clicking the Files icon in the toolbar.
