What is an Assessment?
The assessment activity lets you add tests, quizzes or exams to your learning product. You create the assessment and add questions in the Products>Assessments admin area and then add it to the structure of your learning product where you can set properties and completion requirements.
Native Assessment Features - reporting, randomization, multiple learning products, sharing questions, editing/reviewing by admins
Note: It is best to create your Assessment prior to assembling your Learning Product. You can more easily build your Learning Product once all of the components have been created.
Assessments are built with one or more Objectives, which are used to test learners on different learning objectives or subject areas. Scoring can be based on an Overall Score for the entire assessment, or can be broken up by different Objective Scores where objectives can have different weights. You can choose which type of scoring to use when you add the assessment to your learning activity. Your assessment may have many different objectives (topics/subjects) or just a single objective.
Example of an assessment with multiple objectives: If you're building a Math assessment, you might want to break your questions into two topic or objectives: Algebra and Geometry. You have the option to weight one topic higher than another so that your learners must achieve a higher score on the more important topic. You could weight Algebra so that it must be passed at 80% and Geometry must be passed at 70%. Your learners would have to score higher on the Algebra objective to pass.
- Click the
button to Add New Assessment.
- Give your new Assessment an Assessment Title (this title will be visible to Admins only).
- Enter an Overall Score.
- Enter the first Objective Title.
- Enter an Objective Score. The objective score can be different than the Overall Score.
- Click
to create the assessment and begin adding questions.
- After creating your Assessment, you can alter the Assessment Title, add a Description, and add a Copyright statement from the Assessment Description tab.
After adding a new assessment or clicking on the Edit link to an existing assessment, you will land on the Description Tab. Go to the Outline Tab to start adding questions and building your strucutre. The following links will take you to the help pages for each tab
- Description Tab - Edit the assessment title, add a description for admins, and add copyright text.
- Outline Tab - Add or delete objectives, pools and questions. Build your assessment strucure and edit scoring.
- Pick One Question Type - Multiple choice question with a single correct answer
- Pick Many Question Type - Multiple choice question with more than one correct answer.
- Matching Question Type - Match question answers with choices
- Select Existing Question - Choose questions from other assessments
- Questions Tab - View, edit, move and delete questions. Set question inclusion in assessment attempts
- Review Tab - View all questions, choices, notes, feedback, tags, etc.
- Admin Rights Tab - Choose admins with Editor and Reviewer permissions
- Static Sequence Tab - Set questions in a static sequence, which can be an option when adding to a learning activity.
- Sub Assessments Tab - Create and manage sub-assessments from the main assessment.