Best Practices for Providing Feedback#
The immediacy of the feedback available to learners is a key advantage of online instruction and difficult to do in a traditional classroom environment.
You can target feedback for common incorrect answers to the misconceptions that are common for the level of the learner (for example, elementary, middle, high school, college).
In addition, you can create feedback that provides some guidance to the learner about how to arrive at the correct answer. This is especially important in text input problems, because without such guidance, learners might not be able to proceed.
You should also include feedback for the correct answer to reinforce why the answer is correct. Especially in questions where learners are able to guess, such as single select and dropdown problems, the feedback should provide a reason why the selection is correct.
See also
About Problems, Exercises, and Tools (concept)
Guide to Problem Types (reference)
Working with Problem Components (reference)
Guide to Problem Settings (reference)
Gradebook Assignment Types (reference)
Adding Feedback and Hints to a Problem (reference)
Configure a Hint in a Problem (how-to)
Awarding Partial Credit for a Problem (reference)
Set the Assignment Type and Due Date for a Subsection (how-to)
Adding Tooltips to a Problem (reference)
The Learner View of a Problem (reference)
The Advanced Editor (reference)
Add Hints via the Advanced Editor (how-to)
Modifying a Released Problem (reference)
Maintenance chart
Review Date |
Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |