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Don't have the time to create your own questions for an assessment, but you still want to create your own assessment? You can create your own tailor-made practice assessments in Mastery Connect by cherry-picking questions from the massive Mastery Connect Item Bank. Here is how to do it.
1.Click the Assessments tab.
2. Click Add Assessment.
3. Add a Title to the Assessment.
4. Click Alignment Source.
5. Click From a Tracker. You do not have to select a standard with this option because your Tracker will already have your curriculum map in place which adds the correct standards. Note: Select From a Curriculum Map if you do NOT have trackers created. Select the standard you will use for this assessment from the dropdown menu.
6. Scroll down the list and select the CIP you want to use for the assessment.
7. Under the Source select Item.
8. Select your privacy setting from the three options:
(A) Private to Me: This means the curriculum map only displays in your curriculum maps page. When other users view your profile in the Mastery Connect Community, a private-to-you map does not display in your Curriculum Maps page.
(B) Private to My School: This means other users also assigned to your school can view the map when they visit your Mastery Connect Community profile and view your Curriculum Maps page. They can also copy your map. If another user makes a copy of your curriculum map, the copy is added as a new curriculum map to their Curriculum Maps page, and they can edit the copied map.
(C) Private to My District: This means other users also assigned to your district can view the map when they visit your Mastery Connect Community profile and view your Curriculum Maps page. They can also copy your map. If another user makes a copy of your curriculum map, the copy is added as a new curriculum map to their Curriculum Maps page, and they can edit the copied map.
In most cases, selecting Private to My District is the best method since this allows you to share Curriculum Maps with other teachers in your district. The choice is yours.
9. Click Next.
Now it's time to add the questions to our assessment. Remember, you can create your own questions within Mastery Connect or use questions from the Item Bank. For this example, we will pull questions from the Item Bank.
10. Click the + Sign Icon to add a question.
11. Click Add from Item Bank.
12. Type a search term in the box to find questions about your assessment topic. Press Enter or wait a few seconds and the search results will automatically appear.
13. Click Filter Items.
14. There are a number of filters that will appear on the right side of the page. The Item Bank filter allows you to select which bank of questions you want to use. For example, the list contains Mastery Connect, Washington CO PBLC SCHS Teacher Bank, and many others. To find the best matches for your search terms, leave the box as All. Standard allows you to find questions pertaining to a specific standard. Question Type allows you to select Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, Classify Match and Order, and several other options. Passages allows you to choose questions that have reading passages or no reading passages.
You can scroll down by pulling on the bar located on the far right side of the filters to see more options for filtering your search.
15. The search results can be seen on the left side of the page. By default, Mastery Connect displays 25 items at a time. You can change this number to reveal 50, 75, or 100 items at a time. Scroll down the page by pulling on the bar located just to the right of the questions. When you find the question you want to use, click on it.
16. The question will appear on the right side of the page. The correct answer to the question is located just below the question. Scroll down to see the correct answer.
17. If the question is accompanied by a reading passage, it will be located just above the question. To see the reading passage, click the downward arrow symbol.
18. The reading passage is now visible. Students will be able to see this reading passage along with the question in the assessment. They will NOT see the part that shows the correct answer.
19. To add the question to your assessment, click the Select button located in the top right corner of the screen.
20. Scroll down to see more questions that match your search. For each question you want to answer, click Select.
21. When you have added all questions that you want to use from this search, click Add Items.
22. The questions have now been added to your assessment. If you want to add other questions to the assessment, click Add Item.
23. You can write a new question yourself and add it to this assessment. If you want to do that, select Author New Item. If you want to add more questions from the item bank, select Add from Item Bank. In that case repeat steps 12-21 to add additional questions from the item bank.
Below is the assessment with ten questions added from the item bank. The assessment is worth a total of 10 points since each question from the item bank had an assigned point value of one. Note: You cannot change the point values of questions taken from the item bank.
24. When you are satisfied with the assessment, click Create Assessment.
25. Here you can see the entire assessment with the answer key. Scroll down below the answer key to view the questions from the assessment. When you are ready to assign this assessment to your students, click Add to Tracker.
26. Select the Tracker (Class) where you want to assign this assessment. Then click Add.
Congratulations! You have successfully created an assessment in Mastery Connect using questions pulled from the item bank.
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