Through Exercises, Instructors can assess Learners' knowledge using a didactic tool that allows them to evaluate the level of preparation of Learners based on the educational content covered in class.
If you're an Instructor, you can read below how to create an Exercise. Click here instead to find out how to create a Test.
Below you can read in detail:
How to create an Exercise
To create an Exercise, click on the Assessments button in the top menu: from here, you can add new Exercises or view and edit those published that have not been completed yet. To create a new Exercise, click on the New button:
You can visually recognize Exercises by the label REPEATABLE EXERCISE.
From the following window, you can customize the title of the Exercise and add questions by clicking on the Add a question button:
From here, you can choose different types of questions to add to the Exercise. Some of them will be auto-corrected:
- True or false: enter the question, the answer is always either true or false
- Short answer: enter the question and the correct answers. The response is marked correct only if the Learner's answer matches one of the correct answers provided by the instructor
- Multiple choice: in this type of question, there may be a single correct answer or multiple ones. The response will be marked correct if the Learner selects all of the correct answers and no incorrect answers.
- Crossword: words and definitions are crossed to create the crossword puzzle. The answer is counted as correct if at least 70% of the words entered in the crossword are correct.
- Videoquiz: choose a video from YouTube and insert questions at the right time. The answer is considered correct only if at least 70% of the answers are correct
- Fill in the blank: copy-paste or write a text and delete some words. Learners must enter the missing words. The answer is considered correct only if at least 70% of the answers are correct
- Matching: create pairs of content. Choose from text, video, images, maps, and drawings. The answer is considered correct only if all pairs are correctly matched
- Pair the cards: create pairs of cards that will progressively disappear when the Learner matches them correctly. Choose the maximum number of mistakes the Learner can make. The response will be marked correct only when the Learner has correctly paired the cards without exceeding the allowed number of mistakes.
Others may be manually corrected by the Instructor:
- Open answer: answers of this type must be corrected by the Instructor. The instructor may mark the question as correct or incorrect and leave a comment if desired.
- Reply with attachment: during the correction, the Instructor values whether the answer is right or wrong based on the content attached by the Learner
Before clicking on Save, please note that you can assign 1 or more points to each question you have just created by editing its score at the bottom left:
From the Exercise summary, you will see several buttons:
- Gear icon: to access the Exercise settings where you can customize various aspects of the Exercise
- Delete: to permanently delete the Exercise
- Add a question: to continue adding questions to the Exercise
- Preview: to preview the Exercise
- Save: to save the Exercise as a Draft (this will not be visible to Learners)
- Publish: to make the Exercise visible to Learners
If you click on the Publish button a publication confirmation will will pop up, summarizing the content of the Exercise. Click on Edit if you want to make some changes to the Exercise or select Confirm to publish it:
How to customize an Exercise
When creating an Exercise, you can edit various settings regarding how the Exercise will be taken by clicking on the gear icon:
Specifically, you can:
- randomize the order of the Exercise questions by clicking on the Assessment order button:
- choose whether to display the results at the end of the Exercise or after it has been corrected by an Instructor. To do this, select Display results at the end of the assessment or Display results after the Instructor’s correction to decide when to make the Exercise results visible to Learners:
- view the minimum threshold to pass the Exercise
If you do not have access to the Space settings, you will see the following message:
In this case, you will need to reach out to the Space Admin and request a change to the minimum threshold to pass the Exercise. You can do this by clicking on contact your Admin to use the Chat to communicate with the Space Admin.
If you have access to the Space settings, you will see the following message:
In this case, click on change it to be redirected to the Space settings where you will be able to set a new minimum threshold to pass the Exercise.
- set the maximum duration of the Exercise by entering the time interval in minutes within which Learners must complete the Exercise:
If you do not want to set a time limit, type 0 in the Minutes box.
- make the Exercise repeatable so that Learners can take it as many times as they want. To do this, click on the Make it a training exercise button:
Disabling this button, the Exercise will turn into a Test and it will no longer be repeatable.
Once you have customized the Exercise, click on Save to confirm or select Delete to undo the changes: