You can make tests available in your course for students to take for practice or diagnostic purposes as well as for grading. Some CourseCompass courses come with publisher-provided tests that you can preview and modify. You can also import tests from other courses, upload TestGen tests (created with the TestGen application), and create your own tests either from scratch or from pools of existing questions.
CourseCompass grades student tests and records results in the gradebook. If a test contains essay questions, you must grade those test items manually and then submit the results to the gradebook. You can weight tests either in relation to one another or in relation to other types of assigned work, such as papers and homework.
Here are the basic steps for creating a new test and making it available to students:
Click Assessment/Test Manager in the Assessment area of the Control Panel.
Click Create Test at the top of the page to begin creating the test.
Enter a test name, a description, and instructions for your students.
Select a question type.
Enter the question text and a point value for the question.
Provide answers where appropriate. For example, you provide answers for a multiple-choice question.
Specify the order in which answer choices appear, where appropriate. For example, in a matching question, you provide the order in which the possible answers are listed in relation to the questions.
Provide feedback for correct and incorrect responses.
Save the test.
Set test-taking options to specify availability settings (when and for how long the students have access to the test), feedback settings (what information is presented to the students when they review the test), and presentation settings (whether students see questions one at a time or all at once).
Note: For more information about multiple fill-in-the-blank(s) assessments, see Working with multiple fill-in-the-blank(s) assessments.