UsingWW: Reduced Scoring Date

I think that Alex's assessment is correct. Reduced scoring needs to be enabled both for the course and the set. Check both closely.

Here is a screenshot of the settings with the pertinent settings circled:

Set settings for reduced scoring.

Here is a screenshot of what you should see if a reduced scoring set is not yet due:

Reduced scoring set not yet due

and here is a screenshot of what you should see for a reduced scoring set that is in the reduced scoring period:

Set in reduced scoring period.

Those are both taken with the current version of webwork (2.20) on the problem sets page that students see.

Reduced Scoring Date

by Alex Jordan - Monday, 1 September 2025, 10:21 PM

It's admittedly confusing that you configure this at both the course level and the assignment level. Originally the thinking was that you need to be able to enable/disable it at the course level because if you are not using it at all, then all the date settings for reduced scoring are just clutter. And then you can enable/disable it on individual sets since it's reasonable that even if you use this feature, you might not use it on all sets.

However I do note that you can effectively not use it on a set by having the reduced scoring date match the close date. So it's at least worth considering that in a future version of WeBWorK, maybe (maybe) we could remove the assignment-level switch here.