Assessment settings
Note: To complete these procedures, you
must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To
determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and
permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.
To reach the Settings page for an assessment, from the menubar of
the appropriate worksite, click Tests &
Quizzes
. On the Assessments page, click
Settings
beneath the title of the assessment. Click the
black arrow for a type of setting to see the options.
Note: Altering the settings for one assessment does
not impact the settings of other assessments you created. Altering the
options in the settings for an assessment does not impact any other
options.
The settings available depend on whether or not your assessment is
published; see Settings for published assessments
below. They also depend on what assessment type you have created for
use with an assessment. The default assessment type does not include
all possible settings.
If you wish to include more settings than you see available for an
unpublished assessment, you will need to create and edit a new
assessment type; see Adding, editing, or deleting an Assessment Type.
Assessment Settings
The following is a list of all possible settings.
- Assessment Type Information: If you chose to base
your assessment on an existing custom template, its title, author(s),
and a brief description will automatically display here.
- Assessment Introduction: Specify the title and
author(s) of an assessment, add an attachment to the assessment, and
add a description of, or introduction to, the assessment. The
assessment's creator (i.e., the user who was logged in when the
assessment was created) is also listed, but you cannot modify this
information.
- Delivery Dates: Specify when
(date and time) an assessment will be made available, when it will be
due, and when it will be retracted. To set the dates and times, click
the calendar icon next to each field.
- Assessment Released To: Choose to release the
assessment to anonymous users, restrict its availability to only
site members, or restrict its availability to only selected groups.
Note: As soon as an assessment is published, its
author will receive its URL. It is up to the author to distribute the
URL to people taking the assessment who are not members of the
site.
- High Security: Specify that only certain IP
addresses can access your assessment, or create a secondary
username and password to use for accessing the assessment.
- Timed Assessment: You can make the assessment a
timed assessment and specify the amount of time allowed. This option
will cause the assessment to submit automatically when the time is up.
- Assessment Organization: Govern the appearance
and behavior of your assessment. The following options are
available:
- Navigation: Choose from the following:
- Linear access: Limits users to progressing
forward through an assessment without access to the table of contents
- Random access: Allows users to move from question
to question throughout the assessment using either the
Previous
and Next
buttons, or the table of contents
- Question Layout: Choose to display each
question on a separate web page, each part on a separate web page,
or the complete assessment on one web page.
- Numbering: Choose continuous numbering throughout
all parts of the assessment, or choose to restart numbering with each
part.
- Mark for Review: Checking Mark for Review will bookmark questions students would like to review before they submit the assessment. Click on the Table of Contents link at the top of the page to find a full list of questions (click on Part name to see questions). The question mark symbol will appear next to any question you have marked.
- Submissions: Specify how
many submissions you'll allow, and use the "Late Handling" option to
indicate whether or not you'll accept submissions after the due date
(see Delivery Dates above for information on the
Due Date option). If you choose to accept late submissions, such
submissions will be flagged during grading.
- Submission Message: Type a message or specify a
URL to be delivered to the user upon submission.
- Feedback:
- Feedback Authoring: Choose from the following:
Question-Level Feedback:
Allows feedback based on
question regardless of the answer
Selection-Level Feedback:
Allows feedback based on the
answer given (i.e., different answers depending on which selection the
student chose)
Both:
This allows you to use both types of feedback.
- Feedback Delivery: Choose from the following:
Immediate Feedback
(i.e., while taking the assessment)
Feedback on submission
(Best used with the
"Record the last score" grading option)
No Feedback will be displayed to the student
Feedback will be displayed to the student at a specific
date
(Click the calendar icon to specify the date)
Note: You should not use the Immediate Feedback
setting in Tests &
Quizzes when assessing learning, as it may provide
information students can use to correct their answers before
submitting a test. No Feedback is the default setting when you click Create to begin your assessment, unless you use an Assessment Type with a different default setting.
Also, you can choose any combination of the following options to
include in the feedback:
- Student response
- Correct response
- Student's assessment score
- Student's question scores
- Question-level feedback
- Selection-level feedback
- Grader's comments
- Statistics and histogram
- Grading: Specify whether grading is to be
anonymous, if grades should be sent to the Gradebook or not, and how to
process the scores if multiple submissions are allowed. If you select
anonymous grading, graders won't be able to see usernames associated
with assessment submissions.
- Graphics: Change the appearance of your
assessment:
- Click the palette icon next to the "Background Color" field to
open the color picker. From the drop-down list, select the palette
you'd like to use (
Web Safe Palette
, Windows System
Palette
, or Grey Scale Palette
), and then click the
color you want to use for your assessment's background color. The
hexadecimal value representing your color will
automatically populate the "Background Color" field.
- In the "Background Image" field, you can type the URL of an image
file to be used as the background image.
- Metadata: Specify keywords, objectives, and
rubrics to facilitate searches for and categorization of your
assessment.
Additionally, you have the option to collect metadata for
questions.
To save the settings for an assessment, click Save Settings
at the bottom of the page. Click Cancel
to cancel any unsaved
changes.
Note: An assessment must contain at least one
question in order to be published.
Settings for published assessments
You can modify the settings, parts, and questions of any assessment
listed under "Pending Assessments". When you publish an assessment, a
copy is created and listed under "Published Assessments". For the
published copy, you can make changes to all the settings exception Assessment Release To.
Note: After you've published an assessment, if you
modify its "Pending Assessments" copy, you'll have to alter the
assessment's name before publishing it. When you publish it,
you'll be creating another copy under "Published Assessments", not
replacing the existing published copy.