Adding a Quiz or Survey (either scroll down through page or select from one of the following choices)
About Quizzes
Adding a Quiz Tool
Developing & Adding Questions
Linking Questions to Quiz
Allowing Student Access
To View Student Submissions & Manually Grade
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About Quizzes:
Online assessment is a convenient way to test student knowledge and skills at anytime and from anywhere. An Assessment section can be added to a course that contains both quizzes and surveys.
Enhanced as well as total online courses can have similar assessment strategies such as surveys for gaining information on student technical skills and knowledge prior to doing course work, quizzes for assessing knowledge gained after either a lecture or module/unit section, and self-tests which provide feedback to students about how well they are internalizing content.
Whether you decide to use a survey or quiz the process of adding, creating, linking questions and setting student access will basically be the same.
Often instructors will want to add an "Assessment" section or area (view Adding a new course section) to the homepage and then add each quiz to that new section.
Adding a Quiz Tool
If you have added a new section to the course as described above, click on this area to enter first, then proceed with this tutorial.
Select "Add page or tool".
Select the link for "Quizzes/Surveys".
Fill in the following text areas and click the "Add" button:
Click the link for the quiz, "Exam 1".
Click the button for "Create quiz".
Enter the title "Exam 1" and click the "Create" button.
Developing & Adding Questions
Click the link for "Question Database".
Select the button for "Create category" which basically creates a folder that will contain all the questions for Exam1 (creating separate folders for each exam helps with any future modifications).
Name the folder the same as the exam, in this case Exam 1, and click the "Create" button.
We can now begin to add questions to the folder.
Multiple Choice:
Under the header for "Options: Questions" use the pull down menu and select "Multiple Choice" and click the "Go" button.
Enter a title and question leaving the "Settings" section at the default.
Type in the distracters and solution in designated Answer boxes (each choice has its own answer box), in this case various colors. Select the check box for the correct answer (located on top of each Answer box), in this case the correct answer is "red" so "Answer 1:" is selected, and enter "optional" feedback (each answer box has a its own feedback box).
Scroll down and click the "Save" button.
To preview the question click the magnifying glass icon.
Answer the questions and click the "Grade" button.
WebCT provides student response information, any feedback and a raw score, click the "Close" button when done.
Edit:
To edit any question, click on the question title.
When done editing scroll down and select the "Save" button when done. DO NOT select "Save as new" for this will make a copy of the question instead of overwriting the original one.
Matching:
Under the header for "Options: Questions" use the pull down menu for "Choose question:" select "Matching" and click "Go".
Enter a title, question, next to the header for Settings for "Preview columns" select the radio button for "No", and each premise along with the correct response. WebCT will juggle the responses upon delivery.
Scroll down, enter the optional "General Feedback" and click the "Save" button when done.
To preview click the magnifying glass, answer the question and click the "Grade" button.
Calculated:
Under the header for "Options: Questions" use the pull down menu for "Choose question:" select "Calculated" and click "Go".
Enter a title and question which incorporates variables for desired mathematical formula INSIDE fancy braces { } (example: {x} {y}) - any letter can be used .
NOTE: Both question and formula must use fancy braces { } to enclose the variables. Fancy braces are located on your keyboard, do a "shift + click" on the key to the right of the "P" key.
Scroll down to the Formula section and enter the correct mathematical formula, using the exact same variables used in the question, and click "Analyze variables".
Once "analyze variables" has been clicked enter the maximum and minimum range for variables used in the formula (in this case "x" and "y") and click the "Generate random answer set" button when done.
WebCT generates all the answers in the range set for the variables. The default for this number set is 10, but can be increased up to 100 different sets by using the pull down menu next to the header for "Number/set" (click "Generate random answer set" button again if altering the default).
Now, scroll down and click the "Save" button.
Preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass next to the title. Provide an answer choice and click the "Grade" button. Once graded, click on "Close".
Short Answer:
Under the header for "Options: Questions" use the pull down menu for "Choose question:" select "Short answer" and click "Go".
Enter a title, direct (short) question, ALL acceptable answer(s), and a value % for each in the "Value %" textblock. This question type works best if it has only 1 acceptable answer, thus 100% value would be given as in the following example.
Scroll down and type in optional "General Feedback" and click "Save" when done.
Preview the question by clicking the magnifying glass icon, answer and select to "Grade".
Paragraph:
NOTE: Paragraph type questions are not automatically graded by WebCT, if using this question type you will need to manually grade each submission.
Under the header for "Options: Questions" use the pull down menu for "Choose question:" select "Paragraph" and click "Go".
Enter a title, question, if looking for a long student response increase the "Answerbox size" next to Settings, and click "Save" when done. "Pre-fill answerbox" and "Correct answer" text blocks are optional.
Preview by selecting the magnifying glass, select to "Grade" the question and click "Close" to exit.
Linking Questions to Quiz:
From the Questions Database, using what WebCT calls"Breadcrumbs" click the text link for "Quizzes/Surveys".
Click on the title of the quiz which the questions will be linked, in this case it is "Exam 1".
Under the header for 'Options" click "Add questions" button.
Click once on the folder to open, then select specific questions OR select the checkbox next to the folder to auto select all questions, and click "Add selected".
In the "Points" column click and enter desired values for each question and select the "Update total" button.
Allowing Student Access:
Click the button for "Edit quiz settings".
Quiz settings have many features such as Basic Settings, Availability and Selective Release. Go with the default settings or use pull down menus and select radio buttons for specific release times and options.
To allow students to take a quiz immediately, in the section for Availability select the button for "Allow access now" (alternatively one could use the pull down menus for Availability for future access days and times).
Scroll down to Results for additional selections. Select the radio button for "Release the score once the quiz has been submitted" for student to automatically view results, select the radio button for "Yes" under the section for "Release columns" and scroll down to click "Update".
Using the "Breadcrumbs" click on the title of the quiz, Exam 1.
To View Student Submissions & Manually Grade:
Enter the quiz/surveys area of your course, click on the button for "Submissions" under the quiz title.
In the "Grade" column for a student, click on the number.
At this point you can scroll down through the submitted exam, add additional comments, alter scores (enter new score in the "Override score" textblock) OR add a new score for Paragraph type questions (enter score in the "Score" textblock), scroll down and click "Update grade".
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