Instructors can enable one or more of a set of Advanced Assessment Tools to provide additional functionality and interactivity for their students when taking assessments:
Flag for Review
Flag for Review is a tool to help students remember which questions they want to go back to while taking a test. Instructors can’t see flagged questions, and they do not persist after students submit their attempts.
Enabling Flag for Review
Authors can enable the Flag for Review tool for specific assessments from the Setup tab of an assessment. Scroll down to the Assessment Toolbar section. (Or, AMP clients can navigate to the Settings window of a managed assessment.) Select Yes next to Students can flag questions for review. Once saved, any students who start new attempts or resume existing ones are able to use this tool.
Using Flag for Review
The Flag for Review tool appears to students in the menu on the right side of every assessment, if it has been enabled.
To flag a question for review, click the flag icon. When a question is flagged, the icon is blue. To unflag a question, click the icon again.
Flagged questions are designated on the review screen. (To navigate to the review screen, click the calendar icon at the top right or navigate to the last question on an assessment and click Review.) To revisit a flagged question, click the flag on this screen.
If students flag questions, leave the test, and then resume it later, those questions remain flagged when they return.
Eliminate Choices
Students can use the eliminator tool to rule out incorrect answers on the way to finding the correct one. Instructors can’t see eliminated answers and they do not persist after students submit their attempts.
Enabling Eliminate Choices
Authors can enable the Eliminator tool for specific assessments from the Setup tab of an assessment. Scroll down to the Assessment Toolbar section. (Or, AMP clients can navigate to the Settings window of a managed assessment.) Select Yes next to Students can eliminate answer choices. Once saved, any students who start new attempts or resume existing ones are able to use this tool.
Using Eliminate Choices
The Eliminate Choices, or eliminator, tool appears to students in the menu on the right side of every assessment, if it has been enabled.
To eliminate possible responses while answering a question, click the eliminator icon. The tool is enabled when the icon is blue. Now, click any answers that you want to cross out. (To “un-eliminate” a response, click it again.)
When you have narrowed down your choices, click the eliminator icon again to disable the tool. Now, select the correct answer.
Students can see any answers they have eliminated within the same session. This means that students can cross out answers, move on to another question, and still see the choices they crossed out when they return to the original question. However, if students exit the test and resume it later, any cross-outs made during a previous session no longer display.
Text Highlighting
Students can use the text highlighting tool to emphasize key information in the text they are reading while answering questions on an assessment. Instructors can’t see highlights and they do not persist after students submit their attempts.
The highlight tool does not appear to students in the assessment menu. To highlight, students can click a single word or drag their cursor over a phrase, sentence, or paragraph. On touchscreen devices, students can highlight words by tapping or selecting them. All text is highlighted in yellow.
By default, students can highlight any text in the excerpts of a shared passage (currently available in AMP only), as shown above.*
The author must specifically designate any text outside of shared passages as “highlightable” (in standalone questions, for example). To allow students to highlight text that does not appear in shared passages, select the text in the rich text editor (RTE) of any question stimulus or response. Click the styling dropdown menu, then scroll down and select Highlightable.
If students highlight text, leave the test, and then resume it later, the text remains highlighted when they return.
Calculator
Students can use a built-in calculator while taking an assessment.
Enabling the Calculator
Authors can enable the Calculator tool for specific assessments from the Setup tab of an assessment. Scroll down to the Assessment Toolbar section. (Or, AMP clients can navigate to the Settings window of a managed assessment.) Select either Yes, basic or Yes, scientific next to Students can use a calculator during attempt. Once saved, any students who start new attempts or resume existing ones are able to use this tool.
Using the Calculator
If you enable a calculator, the calculator icon displays on the menu on the right side of the assessment.
Click the calculator icon to open or close the calculator while answering any question on an assessment. If students are answering a question that requires typing an answer, they must enter the answer directly into the response–answers do not automatically transfer from the calculator to the response field. Students can drag and drop the calculator to any position on the screen.
Ruler
Students can use a built-in ruler while taking an assessment.
Enabling the Ruler
Authors can enable the Ruler tool for specific assessments from the Setup tab of an assessment. Scroll down to the Assessment Toolbar section. (Or, AMP clients can navigate to the Settings window of a managed assessment.) Select Yes, 15 cm or Yes, 6 inch next to Students can use a ruler during attempt. Once saved, any students who start new attempts or resume existing ones are able to use this tool.
Using the Ruler
If you enable a ruler, the ruler icon displays on the menu on the right side of the assessment.
Click the ruler icon to open or close the ruler while answering any question on an assessment. Drag and drop the ruler to any position on the screen, or rotate it to take a measurement over an image.
Protractor
Students can use a built-in protractor while taking an assessment.
Enabling the Protractor
Authors can enable the protractor tool for specific assessments from the Setup tab of an assessment. Scroll down to the Assessment Toolbar section. (Or, AMP clients can navigate to the Settings window of a managed assessment.) Select Yes next to Students can use a protractor during attempt. Once saved, any students who start new attempts or resume existing ones are able to use this tool.
Using the Protractor
If you enable the protractor, the protractor icon displays on the menu on the right side of the assessment.
Click the protractor icon to open or close the protractor while answering any question on an assessment. Drag and drop the protractor to any position on the screen, or rotate it to take a measurement over an image.
You can enable the calculator, ruler, and protractor tools on the same assessment, and students can open them all simultaneously.
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