Basics of the "Check Answer" Button
Depending on the assignment settings your instructor has chosen, you may see a "Check Answers" button on some or all questions on your assignment. Frequently, it will be set to show on all questions except multiple-choice.
Your instructor may set a limit on how many times you can use it; once you reach that limit (which happens when you use the button when it says "You can check your answer 1 more time before the question is locked"), you will no longer be able to change your answer.
When locked, it looks like this:
The question options are grayed out, and you can no longer change your answers.
The "Check Answers" button only checks the answers that you have already entered; on a multi-part question, it will only check the answers already entered. Other parts of the question will be left blank.
How to Change an Incorrect Answer
If the question is not yet locked, and your answer has been marked as incorrect, you can change the answer you have entered.
On multiple-choice questions that only allow you to select one answer, you can simply click on the answer you want to change to.
On dropdown questions, click on the previously selected answer to reopen the dropdown and choose a different option.
On drag-and-drop questions, drag the previous selection all the way outside the box, then drag your new answer in from the word bank.
On math or typed answer questions, click on the text or number that was entered to put your cursor back in that space, and delete the previously entered answer, then enter your new answer. Note: Clicking on the red X that indicates that the given answer was incorrect will NOT remove the entered answer. You need to click on the actual text/numeric value to delete the current entry.
Note: the "Check Answer" button will NOT always tell you if you are going to get full points on a question.
On multiple-selection questions, the "Check Answers" button only shows you if the answers you have selected are correct. The "Check Answers" button does not tell you if you have not selected all the correct answers, so using the button does not guarantee that you will end up with full credit on the question. For example, in the following image, a question asks which numbers are odd, which are even, and which are prime, and lists the numbers 2, 4, and 3. The even and odd answers have been selected correctly, and the check answers button confirms this, but no selections have been made in the "Prime" column.
Upon submission, this question would not receive full points, because both 2 and 3 are prime numbers, and those answers have not been selected.
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