How to get answer choice stats from a Schoology assessment

For some reason, Schoology’s “Assessment” tool cannot tell you how many students picked an individual incorrect answer choice on a multiple choice question.

(This is particularly annoying because Schoology’s similar but older “Test/Quiz” tool CAN give you this information!)

Even though Schoology can’t summarize the results for you, the information is all there. We just need a way to process it.

In this tutorial, I walk readers through a method involving JavaScript that can be used to scrape the answer data from a Schoology page and retrieve the missing information.

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