CLASSROOM ASSESSMENTS

Lesson Goals
By the end of this staff development session, participants will be able to perform the following tasks:
1. Create a classroom assessment
2. Create a classroom assessment with a release condition
3. Grade a classroom assessment
4. Create submission views on a classroom assessment
5. Create a number of attempts on a classroom assessment
6. View the statistics on a graded assessment
7. Create a CSV file of the assessment statistics for analysis
Equipment & Materials Needed
Computers and eClass C&I
Lesson Agenda (125 minutes)

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How do I use Classroom Assessments?

Create Classroom Assessments
1. On the navbar, click
Assessments.

Classroom

2. Click New Classroom Assessment under

the Manage Classroom Assessment tab.
3. Under the Properties tab, General, give
your assessment a name (required) and
attach it to a specific category if you wish.
You can add a new category if necessary.
NOTE: Associating a category with an
assessment (test/quiz) allows you to group
assessments by category in the Manage
Classroom Assessments list page.

4. In the Quiz Questions area, click Add/Edit Questions.

5. Do any of the following:
To create a new question, from the New button, select the type of question you want to add. Enter the
question details and click Save.
To add questions from another collection, a text file, or a learning repository, click Import. Enter your
importing details and click Save.

6. Repeat step 5 until you have added all your quiz questions. (See Adding Multiple Choice Questions section of
this guide. For more details on adding other question types, see the Question Library guide.
Optional Advanced Properties
7. Click here to allow hints. (You must create
them within each question.)
8. The Notification Email is disabled at this
time.
9. You can choose to disable right-click (or
Ctrl-click on Mac), so that students cannot
print assessment questions by rightclicking on them (suggested).

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Adding Descriptions/Introductions
10. You can add an optional Description and/or an Introduction by clicking and typing in the appropriate
editing box.
The Description shows before the assessment is available.
The Introduction shows at the start of the assessment. This is a good area to add specific assessment
directions.

Adding Page Header/Footer

11. The Page Header/Footer provides you with the option of adding a message that appears at the top and/or
bottom of every page. (The Header adds it to the top of every page; the Footer adds it to the bottom of
every page.)
Add your optional header or footer by adding information to the appropriate editing box. (See directions
above for the Description and Introduction).
12. Click Save at the bottom of the Manage Classroom
Assessments page.

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Adding Multiple Choice Questions
1. Choose New under your assessment title and select
the type of question you would like to create. For
training purposes, we will create a multiple choice
question.

2. Add a Title for your question (optional).

3. Set the number of points you want this question to
be worth (required). Ex: An assessment with five
questions, each worth 20 points.
4. You can choose the level of Difficulty for this
question item (optional).
5. Type your Question Text in the editing box
(required). Remember, to get more word processing
choices, select the Advanced tab.
6. You can choose to Insert an Image with your
question for students to access and the Description
(optional).

7. Under Options, select the following:

Enumeration: How you want the to appear

before an answer
Style: How you want your answers to appear on
the page, and
Randomize options: If youd like to randomize
your answer choices (recommended).

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8. Below these selections, list the answer choices for
your question. Having four answers is standard, but
you can choose to add more by selecting the number
you would like to add in the Add Option box and then
selecting the + sign. If you would like to delete an
answer choice, simply click the trash can icon to the
right of the answer

9. Add each answer under Value. Add the weight of each answer under the Weight column. (This indicates
the percentage of correctness of each answer.) These are required components. Feedback allows you
to add feedback for each answer choice (optional).

10. Optional: Below your answer choices, you have the

ability to add an question hint and question feedback.
Click in the appropriate HTML editor box to create
either.
11. When you have finished creating your question, click
Save and New to create additional questions of the
same type. Choose Save if you want to select a
different type of question to create. (Then, choose
New under the classroom assessment title.) Or, if you
have finished creating the questions for the classroom
assessment and youd like to preview a question, click
Preview.
For details on creating different types of questions, check out the Question Library guide and video in the
Self-Directed Training Course.

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How do I manage Classroom Assessment questions?

Importing Existing Questions to a Classroom Assessment
By clicking the Import button, you can add existing questions to your assessment from an LOR (learning
object repository), Question Library or from a classroom assessment that youve already created.
If you choose to do this, follow the prompts for importing each type of item. You can find additional
guidance for importing questions in the Question Library guide and video in the Self-Directed Training
Course.
Editing Classroom Assessment Questions
After you create your assessment questions, a Classroom Assessment Editing page will appear. Notice
that questions in which a title appears as the titles name. The question without a title appears as the
question itself.
1. To edit a questions text, click the questions name.

2. Notice that the value of question four is 1. To

edit the value of a question, check the box to
the left of the question and choose Edit
Values.
3. Then you can change the questions value
and/or difficulty level. Dont forget to save
your changes.

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Move/Delete/Order/Publish
4. 4. Using this tool, you can also delete a question(s) by clicking the checkbox next to the question and
choosing Delete or you can change the order of the questions by clicking the Order icon.
The Move icon allows you to move questions to another assessments section and Publish to LOR allows you
to add your assessment questions to the learning object repository for all Gwinnett County teacher access.
5. When you are finished editing your classroom assessment questions, click
corner of your page.

at the top right

6. Back at the Properties page, you can choose

how many questions appear on the page at
one time by adding the number of questions
per page and clicking Apply.
NOTE: If you do not choose a number, the
entire assessment will appear on the same
page.
You can also click the check box next to
Paging, so students cannot return to the
previous page once they have left it.
7. When you are finished making your selections,
click Save.

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How do I add Restrictions?

Adding Restrictions
1. To add restrictions to your classroom
assessment, click the Restrictions tab on the
classroom assessment editing bar.
2. Availability: Change your status to Active to
allow viewing by your students.
You can also give your assessment a start
date and time and an end date and time.
This will only make the assessment
available to students during the dates and
times you select.
If youd like to show the start and end
dates and times on their Course Home
calendar, choose Display on Calendar.

3.

See the separate Release Conditions guide to

create release conditions.

The system also allows you to password

protect your assessment. Students must
input the given password to access it.

It also allows you to restrict access to a

specific IP or range of IP addresses.

4. Under Timing, you can set a time limit for your assessment. You can specify whether users have a limited
or unlimited amount of time to complete the quiz.

No Time Limit: Users have unlimited time to

complete the assessment. The Assessment
Details page will display a recommended
length of time for completing the quiz. Select
the Show clock check box if you want users
to see a clock while taking the quiz to help
them monitor the time.

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Enforce a Time Limit: Users have a set amount of

time to complete the quiz. The Assessment Details
page will display the time limit for the quiz. A clock
displays to users taking the quiz so they can
monitor how much time remains. The clock flashes
briefly 10 minutes before the time expires if the
quiz time limit was set to one hour or more or 5
minutes before the time expires if the quiz time
limit was set to less than one hour. The clock
flashes again at 1 minute remaining, regardless of
the initial quick time limit.

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When enforcing a time limit, you can define specific outcomes for late submissions:

Grace Period: Provides users with a small window of time after the time limit expires to complete the
submission before the submission flags itself as late.
Quiz is flagged as late, but student can continue working: Late submissions are flagged for instructors,
but there are no automatic consequences for users who submit late.
Quiz is flagged as late, and student is prevented from making further changes: Once the grace period
expires, users cannot make further changes to their answers before submitting their quiz.
Quiz is flagged as late, but students can continue working. Quiz will be automatically scored as zero
after the specified limit: Users can continue working after the grace period, but a grade of 0 is
automatically assigned after the period of time specified in the Late Limit drop-down list expires.

5. Under Special Access: Click Add Users to

Special Access to create special access to an
assessment.

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6. Modify special access properties and users
permissions, click Add Special Access.
NOTE: You can search and assign specific users a
different set of quiz availability dates and late
submission properties. Special access properties
enable you to increase the time limit for specialneeds users and allow different start and end
dates for individual users.

7. When you return to the Special Access section of the Restrictions tab, you can select either:

Allow selected users special access to this classroom assessment

Allow only users with special access to see this quiz to prevent other users from accessing the
classroom assessment.

8. When you are finished adding restrictions, click

Save.
Adding Assessments
1. In the Assessment tab, do any of the following:
Automatic Score: If you want to grade assessment attempts immediately, select the Automatic
Score check box. You can also add a new or existing score item to the assessment, set assessment
results to automatically export to the scorebook, edit how the assessment score appears to
students, or add a rubric to the assessment.

Attempts: Set how many attempts a user can make on a quiz and how multiple attempts are
calculated.

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Changing Attempts
2. Choose the number of attempts you would
like to give each student from the dropdown
menu and how you want students overall
grades calculated from its dropdown menu.
3. Then, click Save.

4. If you set multiple attempts, after you save, Advanced Attempt Conditions appear. These allow you to
set a minimum and/or maximum score to be achieved for each attempt in order to qualify for another
attempt. If no minimum/maximum score is set, there is no restriction on multiple attempts.
5. Then, click Save.

Set Submission Views

1. Submission views allow you to customize the
feedback your students receive upon
assessment submission. To access, click the
Submission Views tab on the classroom
assessment editing bar.

Default View: Students are able to

immediately to see their assessment
grades but no questions or statistics
show.

2. To create a new feedback view, click Add

Additional View. Here, you can add a
customized message to be released upon
submission, add a specific date for feedback to
be released, and/or customize the type of
feedback you provide (e.g., showing specific
questions and answers, etc.) Follow the
prompts to set this up appropriately and
choose Save.

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How do I create reports & access statistics?

Create Classroom Assessment Reports
NOTE: Reports must be setup when you initially create a classroom assessment.
1. Click Add Report.
2. Enter a Report Name.
3. Select Report Type:
Question Statistics: Displays class average, score distribution, includes bonus questions, and the Out
Of value for each question.
Question Details: Displays question difficulty levels, text responses, includes bonus questions, and
shows all private comments.
User Statistics: Displays class average, score distribution, and Org Defined ID.
Attempt Details: Displays Org Defined ID and duration of quiz attempt.
User Attempts: Displays Org Defined ID.
4. You can choose to immediately release report after a quiz submission, or enter an alternate date and
time.
5. Select the check boxes next to the roles you want to release the report to in the Release Report to area.
6. Click Save.
Access Classroom Assessment Statistics
1. To access assessment statistics, click the Manage Classroom Assessments menu on your course
navigation bar.
2. Click the Statistics tab under the course navigation bar. Here, you can grade submissions and view
assessment statistics, such as grade distribution, grade average, question statistics, and user statistics.
3. Click the assessment title of which youd like to
gain statistics. (You will be able to view the
class average to the right of the classroom
assessment title.)
4. Here you have many different statistics to
access:

User Stats: Provides you with class

averages and individual user averages.
Question Stats: Provides you student
performance data on individual questions.
Question Details: Provides you with even
more detailed information about how
students answered each question.

5. Each statistic page allows you to export the

data to a CSV file (Excel) where you can sort
and manipulate the data as needed. Simply
click Export to CSV file to do so.
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How do I see or change scores on Classroom Assessments?

Score Classroom Assessments
1. Under Manage Classroom Assessments, click the
dropdown arrow to the right of the assessment
title and choose Score.

2. If the assessment has been automatically graded, you will be able to see students scores as well as if the
scores have been released to the students.

Note: The default view is to show you only users

who have completed an attempt, but you can change
the view by clicking the view that youd like under
Restrict to.

3. Click Display Options to further customize your

view.
a. Id, Classroom Assessment Score, and
Percent will appear beside a students name
if checked.
b. Completed provides you with the date and
the time the assessment was submitted.
c. Allow retest allows you to reset a students
grade (delete it). If this is chosen a
delete/trash can icon will appear under each
attempt.
d. Be sure to save any changes you make.

4. You can export this view to a CSV file (opens in

Excel) too by clicking Export to CSV file.

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5. Click the Attempts tab to view details about each

students attempt.

If you click the specific attempt link, details of

that attempt will show.
Ex: students score, time spent in the
assessment, and results including all questions
and how that student answered each.

You can also choose to manually override the

auto-grade score for each question or for the
entire classroom assessment.

6. 6. The Questions tab has several features:

7.
The Score Individual Responses tab allows you to
leave feedback for all responses to an individual
question before moving on to the next question.
Blind Marking sets it, so student information does
not appear alongside responses and responses
display in a shuffled order. This is to prevent bias in
grading.
View Graded Responses shows previously graded
responses as part of the response list.
Update All Attempts allows you to view question
statistics, make grading changes, and leave
feedback for all responses to the selected question.
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NOTE: Any change made to the scoring of an

assessment question is recorded.

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CLASSROOM USES

Creating classroom assessments from a pool of similar level type questions with ease and simplicity

Creating classroom assessments that meet individual students needs (IEP, ESOL) and differentiated
assessment

Creating formative assessments that can be completed outside of school to help direct classroom instruction

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