ENGRADE

T ESTS AND Q UIZZES

The following slides will lead you through the process of creating and assigning test and quizzes in Engrade. Engrade’s Help section of Tests and Quizzes has lots of help videos and documents on tests and quizzes. Some of the topics are covered in this presentation. You will find extra topics there too. At the bottom of some slides you will find a link to the Engrade help video/document on the specific topic of that slide.

THREE BASIC STEPS

1. Create the test 2. Add the questions 3. Assign the test The following slides will lead you through the process. Engrade also has a great HELP section. To access the HELP section, click on HELP in the upper right corner of the Engrade page. Here are a few links to specific HELP pages/videos for these three basic steps.

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Creating a test 2.

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Creating new test questions Adding new questions to the questions bank Add test question from question bank Assigning a test

CREATING A TEST

• • • • Log into your Engrade account Open the class in which you want to add the test Click on Test & Quizzes in the left menu bar Click the Create New Test button • Give the test a title and choose any options Engrade Help

LET’S LOOK AT THE OPTIONS A LITTLE CLOSER

Title is self explanatory

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Subject and Grade Level

This will give you access to the correct Standards and Objectives to tag questions Allows others to search for your test if you share it Time Limit: 3 – 120 minutes

DISPLAY OPTIONS

Randomize question order – Students will receive questions in different orders. Not a good idea if you have more than one question based on a passage/graph/etc. or if students need the test read to them.

Show question type instructions – self explanatory Allow students to navigate questions – Students will have access to a bar at the top with questions numbers. They can pick and chose which question they want to view. They must click Save and Continue if they want to save an answer.

Allow students to cross out incorrect answers – Students click on the X and the answer is grayed out Hide answer choice letters – the A,B,C etc. won’t show up on the test.

TOOLS

This tool bar will be in the upper right corner of each questions Highlighter –Allows the students to highlight portions of questions or passages. There are 7 different highlighter colors Notepad –Brings up a notepad where the student can type Magnifier – Brings up a magnifying glass allowing the student to move it over the text. Works similar to having a physical magnifying glass.

Calculator – Choose between Simple, Scientific and Graphing Protractor – Access to a protractor that the students can move, rotate and resize

MORE OPTIONS

Choose if/when the students can view answers or results Allow students to view rational if you put that in for any questions. When you enter a multiple choice question you can enter rational for each answer choice. Why it’s the right answer or why it’s the wrong answer.

MORE OPTIONS AND TAGS

Click here to open up the following options The students will see this when they first open the test. Make any changes you wish.

Other options Make sure you click Submit to create the test!

ADDING QUESTION You can add questions to the test itself or add them to your question bank Let’s look at how to add questions to the test itself.

Adding to the question bank will be a similar process.

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ADDING QUESTIONS TO THE TEST

As soon as you click Submit when creating the test you will be taken to a screen like this Click Add New to add a new Question Another way to get to this screen is to click on Your Test Library and then click on the name of the test to which you want to add questions.

WHEN YOU CLICK ON “ADD NEW” YOU’LL GET THIS DROP DOWN BOX

Click Question to add a new question to the test.

CHOOSE YOUR QUESTION TYPE

Want to see a sample test??

Sample test with many of the question types The next slides will go through the different question types.

LET’S START WITH ENTERING A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

First thing I do is click show tools for a better editor to add questions.

Question Editor Expanded Links to help with the text editor

Using the Text Editor Using the Text Editor: Insert Graph Using the Text Editor: Insert Equation Using the Text Editor: Create Equation Engrade Help

USE IMAGES AS ANSWER CHOICES

Do you want your answer choices to be images? Check this box.

Select a picture you already uploaded or upload a new one.

RANDOMIZE ANSWERS

Do you want your answer choices to be in a different order for different students? Check this box.

TEXT EDITOR FOR ANSWERS

Click show tools to expand the answer box. You’ll get an expanded text editor like question text editor.

RATIONALE

Want to put in rationales for right and wrong answers? Click here.

Engrade Help The rationale boxes show and you can enter why each choice is right or wrong.

MARK CORRECT ANSWER

Make sure you mark the correct answer by clicking on the box. The correct answer will have a green check mark.

Image answer choices Text answer choices

A – E NOT ENOUGH?

You can always add more choices!

ADDING A PASSAGE

Want to add a passage? Click here You may already have some passages in Engrade that you want to use. If so, click on the box to the left and then click Add Passage(s). You can click on more than one at a time. The grade and subject default to the grade and subject of this test, but you can change that to access other uploaded passages. Make sure you click update filters.

If you want to create a new passage click here. The next slide show how to create a passage Engrade Help

CREATING A NEW PASSAGE

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Give it a Title Select the Subject and Grade Use the text editor to type in the passage or copy and paste from another source If you scroll you’ll get these options. Fill in anything you want.

Click Add passage

MULTIPLE CHOICE

How many points do you want the question to be worth? Enter it in this box.

TAGGING STANDARDS

This box pops up. Keep drilling down by clicking the triangle to the left of the box until you find the objective All this stuff opens up. Click Tag Standards. It defaults to subject and grade you put in when you created the test. Change that if you want to access other standards. Want to attach standards/objectives to the question? Click here.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

Make sure you click Save Question or Save & Create New

NOW LET’S MOVE ON TO MULTIPLE SELECT TYPE QUESTIONS

There are two differences between multiple choice and multiple select. #1: You will have more than one correct answer.

Perfect Response: The response has to be perfect to get the points.

Additive with Negation: Students get points for each right answer they choose and points are subtracted for each right answer they didn’t choose and each answer they choose that isn’t right.

If you choose Additive with Negation. The point value you put in will be the number of points you want added for each correct response and subtracted for each wrong response. #2 You have to decide how you want to score the question. Engrade Help

WANT A TRUE/FALSE QUESTION?

It’s easy enough. Just enter your question and pick the answer.

REMEMBER: With all the question types you can add a passage, tag standards, and choose a point value.

Don’t forget to SAVE!!

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INSTRUCTIONS ONLY

Pick this if you want to add special instructions in the middle of the test, or maybe just a note of encouragement to the students.

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MATCHING

You will enter the items and their match. Engrade will randomize the choices for students.

You can add distractors. I just added one but if you want more click on the little plus sign.

Scoring Types

Perfect: just like ti says – must be perfect to get credit.

Additive: Get points for each one that is matched correctly.

Engrade Help Notice if you change the scoring type to Additive, Points changes to Point Each. That’s your key that every correct match will get the number of points you put in the box.

SHORT ANSWER

Type in your question or prompt and choose the number of characters or words students are allowed to enter.

AS ALWAYS, you can add passages, points, and tag standards. Don’t forget to SAVE!!

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ESSAY

Type in your question or prompt and choose the number of characters or words students are allowed to enter.

You have a choice of 3 editors 1. Standard 2. Basic Math 3. Basic English If you want students to be able to upload pictures and videos then check the box to allow media. The last thing that is new in the essay question is the ability to add a rubric.

Engrade Help Here’s what the three types look like: Standard rubric on the next slide.

Basic Math If you allow media the student’s editor will look like this. They have Basic English insert video and to preview.

How do want the rubric to score? You won’t notice a difference when you are entering the question. You’ll have to preview the The points will be calculated for you

ADDING A NEW RUBRIC

Here’s what you get if you click on New Rubric Pick the Size. It’s listed as Column x Row Give it a Title Fill in the rest of the stuff. It does allow you to copy and paste  Choose the scoring type.

FILL IN THE BLANK

Type in your question. Anywhere you want a blank to fill in type TWO UNDERSCORES, as in __. You will notice as soon as you do that these answer choice boxes will pop up. You can have more than one blank. Do you want to score the question? If so, pick manually review. If you want Engrade to score the question pick Auto Score. If you pick Auto-Score, you will need to enter all possible right answers. I just have one in this example but you can enter more than one. There are two available boxes but you can click to add more.

Now let’s look at our scoring options Engrade Help Our scoring options are Perfect Response and Additive. They work the same as they do in other question types.

FILL IN THE BLANK

FYI: Numeric Only really means numbers

only. I thought I was being helpful when I limited student responses to Numeric Only on a benchmark assessment. Well the answer was a negative number and the students could not type in a negative sign. Maybe this will change in the future but as of now Numeric Only will only allow numbers in the response.

CLOZE

Cloze is like Fill-in-the-Blank but with answer choices for your blanks. (Please forgive the lame question – I was struggling to come up with something  ) In this example I have two blanks so I have two boxes for answer choices. Make sure you click the boxes for the correct answers. You’ll see the green check mark by the correct answer.

Scoring options are Perfect Response and Additive. As always you can add a passage and tag standards. Don’t forget to SAVE!!

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GRID-IN

Type in your question and put two underscores to create a drop down box for students. Notice I put in 2 sets of 2 underscores so I would get two drop down boxes. You can choose between Numeric, Decimal and Alpha. Numeric and Decimal both give the options of 0-9. Decimal just has a decimal point at the front.

Alpha gives the choices of A-Z Here’s a preview of what the kids see

FILE UPLOAD

Type in your question. Add points and tag standards if you choose. You don’t see anything about uploading a file but the students will. Here is what they see. They can add a file they already uploaded to Engrade or attach an outside file. Engrade Help

IMAGE LABELS

Here’s what the students see. Upload a picture and have the students label parts of the picture. Pick your image Click on the image where you want to create a label. A label box will pop up where you can type in the answer.

Scoring options are Perfect Response and Additive. Engrade Help

BUCKETING

I’ll start by showing you what the students see. Then we will talk about how to set it up. The students will drag each word to the correct column or “bucket.” There can be distractors.

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BUCKETING

Type in your question Do you want images for the buckets or the items?

In this example I have two buckets (you can have more). The buckets are Noun and Verb. Click here to add items for students to drag to the buckets When you enter an item, that item will appear in both bucket lists. You’ll need to add the number of that item that should be in bucket. In my example, since car is a noun I put 1 in box for the noun bucket and 0 in the box for the verb bucket. A distractor would have 0 in both buckets. • •

Scoring Options

Perfect Response – must get every response correct to get the credit Additive Buckets - Students earn points for each correct response.

ORDERING

Type in your question Want images for your options?

will move around the choices Drag in available options? Here’s the difference in what the students see Put the answers in the correct order Need more options?

Engrade Help How to score?

Box checked Students will drag the choices from the bottom and place them in the right order.

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Scoring Options

Perfect Response – must get every response correct to get the credit Additive Position - Students earn points for each correct response.

Additive Consecutive - Students earn points for each consecutive correct response

GRAPHING

Here’s the question dialogue box Type in your question. Click Show Tools for the text editor.

Set up the desired label and range for the axes.

Click the drop down arrow to get a choice of graph a point, line, or circle.

This example shows a line. To graph the line, click on two points and the line will be drawn between the points.

Choose the Scoring Type and number of possible points. Tag standards!

Don’t forget to SAVE!!

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SELECT TEXT

Here’s the question dialogue box Enter the question text.

Enter the selection area text.

Will students choose a word, sentence, paragraph or something custom?

Click on any word (in this case) that you want to be a choice for the student to select.

Click on the correct answer.

Add a passage if you want.

Choose the Scoring Type and number of possible points. Tag standards!

Don’t forget to SAVE!!

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ASSIGNING THE TEST TO YOUR CLASS

ASSIGNING TESTS

• • • • • Get to the class where you created the test Click Tests and Quizzes Click Your Test Library Hover over the gear at the far right of the test you want to assign Click Assign to Class Engrade Help

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SCHEDULING A TEST

Schedule times You will open and close the test manually AFTER you have finished the assigning process. Once you assign the test, go back to Tests and

Quizzes – Assigned Tests – and click on Schedule

Two Choices Manually open and close Change the Status to Open or Closed If you choose Schedule available times, this box will open up and you pick dates and times Engrade Help

CHOOSING STUDENTS

Defaults to all students in the class You can manually pick certain students You can also pick student by performance indicators Choose a performance indicator and different groups will show up (see Tier 4 and Tier 1 below) I don’t have great data because this is a fake class but it will make sense when you try it for your own classes.

ASSIGNING TO MORE CLASSES

You can assign the test to other classes – your classes – not other teacher’s classes.

Click on any other classes to which you want to assign the test.

Engrade lists the classes that have the test assigned!!

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SCHEDULING A TEST

At the end of all the scheduling, picking students and picking classes, don’t forget to click on Assign to Class!!