Embedded Files
What is it?
What is it?
- Written exam that students complete online, within a set window of time (minutes / hours)
- Administered using the test function of the IE Online Campus.
Tips
Tips
- A multiple choice quiz can assess information recall and basic understanding. It is efficient in grading.
- Essays and exercises can assess deeper understanding and/or application of acquired knowledge. Evaluation and providing meaningful feedback can be time consuming.
- Ideally, in the exam you would use different question types), to assess different levels of understanding.
Creating a Test
Creating a Test
Step 1. Create a test
Step 1. Create a test
1. Assignments (tab in the menu) or you can use Documents
2. Assessment / Test / create a New test
3. Type:
Name:
Descripion: eg. you will have X min to answer X multiple choice questions ... (out--inside)
Instrucctions: eg. you will have X min to answer X multiple choice questions ... (inside- not necesay)
4. Submit
Step 2. Create questions
Step 2. Create questions
Multiple choice Mostly used - self correction
Create a File Response Question: Mostly used if students need to turn in a paper, an excel or a case study for example.
Step 3. Deploy - TEST OPTIONS
Step 3. Deploy - TEST OPTIONS
Test Deployment: Faculty tend to deploy tests under the Assignments tab.
TEST AVAILABILITY
TEST AVAILABILITY
MAKE THE LINK AVALIABLE YES (indispensable)
FORCE COMPLETION
OFF: students may save their progress, navigate away, and return to complete the test.
ON: students may only access the test ONE TIME. They may not exit and re-enter the test. If students accidentally lose internet connections, they can’t re-enter to continue the exam. They must contact you and ask for a new attempt. !!
SET TIMER to limit the completion time (tight time frame to prevent cheating)
AUTO –SUBMIT
ON: Tests are automatically saved and submitted when the time expires.
OFF: Students have the option to continue when the time expires. It will appear with an OVER TIME label in the grade centre
Set the display dates. (if its posible, offer the exam at the same time to all students, this will minimize the risk of cheating.)
DISPLAY AFTER date /time
DISPLAY UNTIL date / time
(Scroll down)
SHOW TEST RESULTS AND FEEDBACK TO STUDENTS
SHOW TEST RESULTS AND FEEDBACK TO STUDENTS
7. You can set which results and feedback are available to students after they complete a test
TEST PRESENTATION
TEST PRESENTATION
All at Once Present all questions on one screen.
8 . One at a Time Display one question at a time. (recomended to incresae difficulty for copying)
9. Prohibit Backtracking. Prevent students from going back to questions they have already answered.
10. Randomize Questions. Display questions in a random order each time the test or survey is taken. (a good option to increase the difficulty for copying.)
Minimize the risk of cheating
Minimize the risk of cheating
Provide multiple versions for each question that get assigned randomly to each student.
Provide multiple versions for each question that get assigned randomly to each student.
When you create a test (exam), you can use RANDOM BLOCKS to be sure each student receives a different version of the questions . Random blocks draw questions from pools, so you must first create POOLS of questions
When you create a test (exam), you can use RANDOM BLOCKS to be sure each student receives a different version of the questions . Random blocks draw questions from pools, so you must first create POOLS of questions
Step A: Create POOLS of questions:
Step A: Create POOLS of questions:
A POOL is a collection or bank of questions that is stored, and you can reuse . Pools are never deployed or made visible to students.
Then when you create a Test, you will have to create RANDOM BLOCK quetions to pull questions from the POOL and make them visible to students.
TIP: If you have a test that covers different topics and you would like to make sure each student gets questions on each topic, then break the different topics into different pools
On each POOL include questions of approximately the same difficulty.
Then, you will use separate Random blocks to pull the questions from each pool.
Build a pool
Build a pool
On the course Menu on the right, scroll down to find Course Tools
Expand the Course Tools section and select Tests, Surveys, and Pools.
On the Tests, Surveys, and Pools page, select POOLS.
On the Pools page, select Build Pool.
Write the name of the Pool and select Submit.
Create Questions.
Step B: create RANDOM BLOCK to pull the questions from the POOL
Step B: create RANDOM BLOCK to pull the questions from the POOL
Once you have built the POOLS of questions (step A)
You have to CREATE A TEST (Step1 on the top of this page)
Step 2 instead of create quesions, from REUSE QUESTION menu, select CREATE RANDOM BLOCK.
A pop-up window will apear in wich you can select the check boxes for the POOL you want to use to pull the questions from.
Select the check box for at least one question type to include. If you want to inclue them all , choose all types.
All questions that meet the criteria appear. Submit.
Repeat the same process to create more Random Blocks
The Test Canvas appears and displays a success message. The RANDOM BLOCK of questions is added to the test.
Select Number of Questions to display. (1 by default) type the number of questions you want students to see. Submit.
Points per question by default is 10. Yow can change it if you need so. (This point value is assigned to each question in the random block. You can't assign separate point values for individual questions in the same random block. So, you may want to only include questions of approximately the same difficulty.)
PREVIEW - list the questions
Random Blocks Videotutorial
How do I minimize the risk of cheating?
How do I minimize the risk of cheating?
- Give too little time to answer all questions for vast majority of the students (so they don’t have the time to take screenshots, take notes for others etc.)
- Offer the exam at the same time to all students.
- You could provide multiple versions / alternatives for each question that get assigned randomly to each student.
- We strongly recommend to plan your exam to be “open book”. This means you’re effectively allowing the students to search the internet or use self-made cheat sheets while answering the questions. In consequence, your questions (including the multiple choice ones) should test more than the basic information recall and require understanding to answer correctly.
- Experience shows that the alternative "closed book" exam, if offered online, even if combined with proctoring tools, less honest students still have a relatively easy way of cheating and will get disproportionate advantage over the more honest students.
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