Assessing student work>>Creating assessments
You can enable creation settings, such as a default point value, for each test, survey, and pool you create. Once you enable these options, they appear on the Add/Modify Question page for every question in the assessment. You can then apply them to questions as needed. For example, you can select Add images, files, and URLs to questions and then use this option to add files or URLs to an occasional question.
Note: The following procedure assumes you are working in the assessment already. If you have saved the assessment and now want to continue adding questions, click Control Panel, click Assessment/Test Manager in the Assessment area, then click Modify next to the assessment.
To modify the assessment creation settings:
On the Test Canvas page, click Creation Settings at the top of the page.
Select any or all of the options described below to include them on the Add/Modify question page for all questions in the assessment.
Click Submit, then click OK.
You can enable any or all of these options:
Provide feedback for individual answers (tests and pools only) – Each Answer box is followed by a Feedback box where you can enter a comment associated with the particular answer. During test review, this comment appears to students who responded with that answer. For students to see this feedback, you must modify the assessment options to enable the Detailed Results, Correct Answers and Feedback test feedback option.
Add images, files, and URLs to questions – A set of fields appears below the Question Text box as well as below the Correct Response and Incorrect Response boxes in the Feedback area on the Add/Modify Question page.
To add a file or image to the question or feedback, click Browse, locate the file or image, then click Open.
If you selected a file to attach, select Create a link to this file from the Action list to display a link to the file with the question.
If you selected an image, select either Create a link to this file to display a link to the image with the question, or select Display media file within the page to display the image directly on the page with the question.
To add a web link to the question, enter the URL for the web page in the URL box. Be sure to preface the URL with http://. Then, enter a link label in the Title box.
Add images and files to answers – The same options described above appear for each Answer box.
Add categories and keywords to questions – In the Categories area at the bottom of the page, click Categorize to create categories and add questions to categories. By categorizing questions, you can later search by category to locate specific questions to add to another assessment. Similarly, you can associate questions with keywords that you can later use to search questions to add to another assessment. To specify multiple keywords, separate them with commas.
Specify default point values for questions (tests only) – If you enable this option and specify a default point value, that value appears in the Point Value box for every test question you create. For each question you add or modify in the assessment, you can accept the default value or change it.
Notes:
This feature is only available when you are adding questions to a new or existing test. After you have finished adding questions to a test, you cannot set a default point value for all of the questions in the test; instead, you must set the point value individually for each question.
No matter which method you use to set point values, make sure that all point values are set before making the test available to students. You should not change point values after a student has taken an assessment
Caution: Do not change text or point values, add or remove questions, or change attached files once any student has taken the test. Making these changes may corrupt the assessment and its related gradebook entries.