03.D.15. Student Answer Recorder

Please click HERE to see our help video on using the Answer Recorder tool.

With the new Audio Recorder, students are able to record their responses to Teacher Scored and Fill in the Blank questions. Teachers can then listen to a student's recorded response and grade it on the Teacher Completed or Answer Verification screen.

Accessing the Recorder

This new feature can be enabled by selecting the "Online Tools" icon within the question editor.


The feature can be selected from the "Answer Tool" drop-down menu.


Once the feature has been enabled and the test assigned to the student, they will see a small microphone icon within the body of the question.


Afer clicking the icon, a pop-up will appear. Selecting "Start recording" will enable the student's microphone and allow them to begin recording their response.


Once they have recorded their response, they will be giving the following three options:


  1. Save: Selecting Save will save the audio file and link it to the question.
  2. Discard: Selecting Discard will delete the audio file and allow the student to start over
  3. Cancel: Selecting Cancel will close the pop-up and not save the recorded audio.


Once an audio file is saved, students will see it linked to their question. They can play the audio back using the play icon or delete it using the trash can.


Grading Student Audio

Once a student has completed their assessment and linked a recorded response to a question, the teacher is able to listen to the student's response using the Teacher Completed Screen and/or the Answer Verification Screen. These pages can be accessed using the ENTER (Teacher Completed) and CHECK (Answer Entry/Verification) icons on the Teacher Dashboard.


Within the Teacher Completed screen, teachers are able to use either the TCs view or the Page view to listen to a student's recorded response. On both screens the audio is available, as is a section to add any comments and a score.
TCs View:

Page View:

Within the Answer Entry/Verification screen, questions that were set up to include a student's recorded response will have the black flag in the corner like other additional teacher scored questions.

When clicking on the flag, a pop-up will appear showing the question and student's response, as well as a place for users to add a comment and point score for the question.


For more information on grading online assessments, please click HERE to view our help guide.