Enhanced Assessment Features
Assessment Question Completion Status:
In a question-by-question assessment, students may skip questions that they may wish to come back to. Question Completion Status feature allows students to clearly identify which questions they have actually completed from the ones that they have skipped as they progress through the assessment.
The Questions Status Indicator is a tool that provides students with a quick up-to-date look at their progress (which questions have been completed and which have not) in an assessment at all times.
Completion status of assessment questions is displayed at the top of the page, just below the Name and Instructions box when a student is taking the assessment. The following Question Completion Status shows there are four questions and all have been taken:
When the user answers a question and moves on to the next question in a question-by-question assessment, the status box will be updated on the next page to show that the previous question was answered. If the user does not answer a question and moves on to the next page in a question by question assessment, the status box will show on the next page that the previous question was not answered. The user can navigate between questions by clicking on the question number in the status indicator. This is applicable only to assessments deployed all at once or question by question where backtracking is permitted. The illustration below shows the question 1 and 3 have been taken while the question 2 is skipped:
While taking an all-at-once assessment, the user will be able to use a Save button to the right of each question to save this specific question without scrolling to the bottom of the page to save (see the illustration below). Saving either a single question or all of the questions that have been answered (with the Save button at the bottom of the page) changes the status indicator to show which questions have been completed.
Randomize Multiple Choice Answers:
This feature allows instructors to randomize the answers in multiple choice questions. This feature is automatically available when the instructor creates an assessment. To disable this feature when creating or modifying an assessment, the instructor should access “Creation Settings” and uncheck the option for Display: Specify random ordering of answers.
Partial Credit:
Partial credit feature is available on many question types.
Individual Feedback:
The instructor can provide individual feedback for each essay question when viewing a student’s answers to essay questions through the Gradebook.
Advanced Assessment Questions:
Advanced Assessments can include calculated questions, numeric response, file response, hot spot graphic, multiple fill-in-the-blank, jumbled sentence, short response, and quiz bowl-style questions.
The summary of each new advanced assessment questions is shown below:
- A Calculated question is a mathematical question that can dynamically generate the answer based on the value of variables. Instructor can choose a range of possible variable values.
- Numeric response question allows numeric response within instructor defined tolerance (percent accuracy).
- File response – allows a file upload (Word, PDF, etc) in response to a question
- Hot spot – allows use of a picture or graphic in which the answer is a “hot spot” on the graphic, which the user clicks to choose. The “hot spot” answer is a rectangular region over the graphic, instructor defined.
- Multiple fill-in-the-blank - multiple blank spots in a question statement. Each blank spot can be assigned multiple possible correct answers (just like fill-in-the-blank can)
- Jumbled sentence – allows a pop-down menu with multiple choices to fill in a sentence. The pop down menu can be used more than one place in the sentence to “jumble” the order of the words.
- Short response – same as an essay type question but allows the instructor to specify the size of the text box to indicate the desired length of student response (note: does not limit the response, just used as a visual indicator).
- Quiz bowl – the answers are phrased in the form of a question, like “Who was Richard Milhous Nixon?” or “What is a llama?”.
- Either/or – like a true/false question but allows different ways of wording this: agree/disagree, yes/no, right/wrong, true/false.
Surveys
New question types: Likert scale, a.k.a. opinion scale (e.g., “Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, Not Applicable”.)
Export complete dataset to Excel: In previous version not all data were exported.