Assessment settings

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Note: To complete the procedures in this document, 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:

1. Click Tests & Quizzes from the menubar of the worksite.


2. On the Assessments page, click Settings in the Action drop-down menu for the test or quiz you wish to modify.


3. Click the black arrow for a type of setting to see the options.

Note: Altering the settings or options for one assessment does not impact the settings or options of other assessments you created.

The settings available depend on whether or not your assessment is published. 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. Once an assessment is published, you may only edit the three Delivery Dates settings, and the Gradebook Options (under Grading) setting.

If you wish to include more settings than you see available for an unpublished assessment, you will need to create and edit a new assessment type. To do this, see Adding/creating, editing, or deleting an Assessment Type.

Assessment Settings

Note: You should not use the feedback option in Tests & Quizzes when assessing learning, as it may provide information students can use to correct their answers before submitting a test.

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, as well as 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, or restrict its availability to only site members.

  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. You also have the option of making a timed assessment automatically submit itself when time expires.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Submissions: Specify how many submissions you'll allow, and use the Late Handling option to indicate whether or not you will 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: Choose one of the following options:
  
  
  • Immediate Feedback
  • Feedback on submission (NOTE: Best used with grading option of "Record the last score.")
  • Feedback will be displayed to the student at a specific date (click the calendar icon to specify the date)
  • No Feedback will be displayed to the student

  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 will not 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 would like to use (Web Safe Palette, Windows System Palette, or Grey Scale Palette), and then click on 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 may 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:

1. Click Save Settings at the bottom of the page.


2. Click Cancel to cancel any unsaved changes.

Note: An assessment must contain at least one question in order to be published.