How to Award Extra Credits or Bonus Points to Your Learners

Awarding bonus points in ProProfs Quiz Maker allows you to manually adjust a learner’s score after quiz submission. This is useful for rewarding partial credit, correcting evaluations, or encouraging learners with extra marks.

Benefits:

• Improves Learner Motivation: Reward learners with extra credits to encourage better performance.

• Flexible Score Adjustment: Manually update scores based on evaluation or special considerations.

• Supports Fair Assessment: Add or deduct points to reflect accurate performance.

Example:

An instructor reviews quiz responses and decides to award extra credit for partially correct answers. They update the learner’s score by adding bonus points, ensuring a fair and accurate evaluation.

Here's how the score looks after adding the Bonus Points to learner's score:

And here's the score before adding the Bonus points:

To Award Bonus Points to Learners

Step 1: Go to your Quiz Maker dashboard and open the reports for a quiz, as shown below.

Alternatively, you can go to quiz settings and click “Reports.”

Step 2: Locate the quiz taker to whom you wish to assign the bonus points and click the “User report” icon.

Step 3: Click “Bonus points” near the quiz taker’s score.

Step 4: Select the points you wish to award from the drop-down menu and click Submit. 

You’ll get a confirmation on successful score updation.

Step 5: Refresh the page to see the updated score in the Reports Summary.

That is all about awarding bonus points to learners in ProProfs Quiz Maker.