Assessment

Overview

Instructors use Assessments to test Student knowledge, measure Student progress, and gather information from Students. There are two types of Assessments:

Tests – Tests are created to check the knowledge and skill level of users enrolled in the Course. Tests permit the Instructor to assign point values to each question on exams or quizzes. When a Student completes a Test it is submitted for grading. The results are recorded in the Grade Center.
Surveys – Surveys are useful for polling purposes, evaluations, and random checks of knowledge. They function in the same way as Tests and offer most of the same options. Questions on Surveys are not assigned a point value. Surveys are not graded.

In this section

This section includes information on the following topics:

Topic	Description
About Assessments	An overview for planning and organizing Assessments.
Test Manager	Explains how to create and manage Tests.
How to Create or Modify a Test	Describes the process for creating a Test.
Test Info	Explains the data used to describe a test.
Test Canvas	Describes the area used to add questions and organize a Test.
Test Creation Settings	Explains the options used to control the availability of Test features.
Question Completion Status	Describes how the question completion status feature informs users of which questions they have answered.
Question Metadata
Multiple Choice Questions	Reviews how to add or modify questions.
True/False Questions	Describes True/False questions.
Fill in the Blank Questions	Describes Fill in the Blank questions.
Multiple Answer Questions	Describes Multiple Answer questions.
Matching Questions	Describes Matching questions.
Ordering Questions	Describes Ordering questions.
Essay Questions	Describes Essay questions.
Calculated Formula Questions	Describes Calculated questions.
Calculated Numeric Response Questions	Describes Numeric Response questions.
File Response Questions	Describes File Response questions.
Hot Spot Questions	Describes Hot Spot questions.
Fill In Multiple Blanks Questions	Describes Multiple Fill in the Blank questions.
Jumbled Sentence Questions	Describes Jumbled Sentence questions.
Opinion Scale/Likert Questions	Describes Opinion Scale questions.
Short Answer Questions	Describes Short Response questions.
Either/Or Questions	Describes Either/Or questions.
Quiz Bowl Questions	Describes Quiz Bowl questions.
Add/Modify Random Block	Explains how to add a random set of questions to a Test.
Upload Questions	Describes the process and file format for uploading questions to a Test.
Search Pool and Assessments	Reviews the search function for finding questions.
Survey Manager	Explains how to create and manage Surveys.
Pool Manager	Describes how to create and manage Pools of questions.
Pool Import	Explains how to import a pool of questions