Use Pressbooks Results with your LMS for Grade Passback

View Students’ Performance in the Pressbooks Results Viewer

📌 Requirements: Enterprise Network with a configured LTI connection and Pressbooks Results activated. To find out whether your network is ready for grade passback, contact your network manager.

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As an instructor or as a student you may want to have more detailed information on a student’s performance than what is available in the LMS gradebook. While the gradebook only displays the aggregate score for an assignment, the Pressbooks Results Viewer additionally provides details on each student’s performance on individual H5P activities in an assignment at any time. Viewing this detailed information can help instructors and students understand how the grade was computed.

Add the Pressbooks Results Viewer to an LMS course

Instructors can add the Pressbooks Results Viewer to their LMS course using deep linking, the exact same method used to bring assignments from Pressbooks into the course: see the previous chapter for LMS-specific instructions. The Results Viewer appears for selection at the top of the Content Selector popup.
Content selector window with "Pressbooks Results Viewer" selected at the top.

To make the Results Viewer available to students, follow the same steps as for any chapter or assignment resource in the course. A student accessing the Results Viewer will only see their own assignment scores, while the instructor will see all of their students’ scores.

View Results

When as an instructor you open the Results Viewer from your course, you will see this interface:

Pressbooks Results Viewer interface. The title on the page is "Activity Results". Below the title on the left is a dropdown to select the assignment. On the right there is a search bar. Further below is a table with Pressbooks chapter title and a information icon. In the table there are columns for each H5P activity included for scoring and rows for each student and their scores. At the bottom left of the page is a navigation aid to move to the next page of rows of students. At the bottom right of the page is a navigation aid to move to the previous assignment and to the next assignment. Details below.

The Results Viewer shows scores for one assignment at a time. You can use the drop-down menu in the top-left corner to select an assignment to view, or you can use the Previous Assignment and Next Assignment buttons at the bottom to navigate.

❗️ In the Results Viewer, instructors will only see students who have opened a Pressbooks LTI link to a book chapter from the course. After opening such a link, the student will be listed in the Results Viewer for all assignments from the book included in the course.

❗️Assignments are only included in the Results Viewer once they have been launched at least once from the course by any user.

Understand Displayed Scores

The maximum possible score for an overall assignment is displayed below the assignment’s name. This “out of __” number is the sum of the maximum scores of H5P activities included in the assignment. This raw number is shown for reference regardless of what an instructor has set an assignment’s grade to be displayed out of in the LMS gradebook.

To the right of the assignment name, click the ⓘ icon to display the grading scheme in effect for the assignment:

Detail of the Results Viewer with the chapter title and the ⓘ icon. The bubble from the icon reads: "Scores below show the first attempt for each activity"

Each H5P activity that has been included for scoring within the assignment is shown in a column. Below the activity title, you can view exactly how many points the activity is scored out of (its maximum possible score). In the Total column on the right-hand side, you’ll see the sum of points a student received for the assignment.

❗️ If an H5P activity appears in the Viewer without an “out of __” value, that means it hasn’t been attempted by any user yet. Once attempted once by any user (e.g. an instructor or a student), the max score for the activity will appear. Pressbooks Results sends overall grades to the Learning Management System for each configured assignment as soon as the max score is available for all activities in the assignment.

Test as a Student

You may wish to test out your Pressbooks Results configuration before sharing your course with real students. Currently, Canvas is unique among the Learning Management Systems in that its “View as Student” preview mode is fully compatible with Pressbooks Results, including both grade passback and the Results Viewer. By contrast, Blackboard‘s “Student Preview” mode is compatible with passback to the gradebook, but it does not lead the “PreviewUser” to be listed in the Results Viewer. Meanwhile, D2L‘s “View as Learner” and Moodle‘s “Switch role to…” modes are neither compatible with the gradebook nor the Results Viewer.

For instructors using Blackboard, D2L, or Moodle, the recommended approach is to enrol a separate test student. If you log in with this mock student account, you will be able to attempt activities and view your scores for them in the Results Viewer as well as in the gradebook.

⚠️ It is necessary to set your assignments and overall course to a “published” state in order to be able to test them as a student. For example, in Canvas, grade passback in the “View as Student” mode can only occur if the overall course has been published (see the Home page and Course status on the right-hand side to check whether your course is set to published).

Video Guide

This video shows the process of attempting an assignment in the LMS and consulting the Results Viewer afterwards. Except for the use of the of Canvas-specific “View as Student” preview mode, the material in this video applies to all supported LMSes:

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