Modifying an existing assessment

Note: To complete these procedures, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

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Introduction

You can modify the settings, parts, and questions of any assessment listed under "Pending Assessments". When you publish an assessment, a copy is created and listed under "Published Assessments". For the published copy, you can make changes to all the settings except "Assessment Released To".

Note: After you've published an assessment, if you modify its "Pending Assessments" copy, you'll have to alter the assessment's name before publishing it. When you publish it, you'll be creating another copy under "Published Assessments", not replacing the existing published copy.

Note: You should not use the Immediate Feedback setting in Tests & Quizzes when assessing learning, as it may provide information students can use to correct their answers before submitting a test.

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Modifying the settings

To modify the settings of an assessment, under "Pending Assessments" or "Published Assessments":

  1. From the drop-down menu for the assessment you want to modify, select Settings.

  2. On the Settings page, click the arrow next to each setting to reveal its options. For more information about the settings and their options, see Assessment settings.

  3. When you're finished, click Save Settings to save your changes and return to the Assessments page. To keep the original settings and discard any changes, click Cancel.

    Note: You can also modify the settings by clicking Settings in the editing screen.

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Modifying the parts

Of a pending assessment

To modify the parts (i.e., sections) of any assessment listed under "Pending Assessments":

  1. To enter the editing screen, from the drop-down menu to the left of the assessment title, select Edit. At the top, you will see a bar containing the following options:

    • To create a part, click Add Part. To edit a part, click Edit to the right of the part that you wish to edit.
    • To modify the settings for the assessment as described above, click Settings.
    • To see how the assessment will appear to those taking it, click Preview.
    • To publish the assessment, click Publish. This will take you to the Settings menu, where you can make adjustments and publish the assessment.

  2. Every assessment must contain at least one part. Parts are signified within an assessment by a box containing the part title, a drop-down list for determining the order of the parts, plus three options: Copy to Pool, Remove, and Edit. (If there is only one part, the Remove option will not appear.) Each new assessment will include an automatically created part called "Default". You have the following options:

    • To change the order in which a part appears in your assessment, change the number in the drop-down list in the part's title bar.
    • To remove a part, click Remove. You'll have the option to remove the part only (and move its questions to another part), or remove the part and all its questions.
    • To edit the part, click Edit. You can then do the following:

      • Change the title. If you do not change the default part's name, its heading will not appear on your assessment. Any questions or images you place in this part will appear; only the heading will be hidden.
      • Modify the "Information" field.
      • Choose to create questions individually, or have them randomly drawn from one of your question pools. For the random draw, you must also specify how many questions to pull from which question pool, the point value for the questions, and the type of randomization.
      • Change the order of the questions within the part; choose either As listed on Assessment Questions page or Random within Part.
      • Modify the "Objective", "Keyword", and "Rubric" metadata fields.

    • Click Save to save your changes.

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Of a published assessment

You can modify certain elements of the parts of an assessment listed under "Published Assessments"; however, you cannot change the order of the parts, nor can you add or remove parts, once an assessment is published. To modify a part in a published assessment:

  1. From the drop-down menu for the assessment you want to modify, select Edit.

  2. For the part you want to modify, click Edit. You can then do the following:

    • Change the title
    • Modify the "Information" field
    • Add or update attachments

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Modifying the questions

Of a pending assessment

To modify the questions of an assessment under "Pending Assessments":

  1. To enter the editing screen, from the drop-down menu to the left of the assessment title, select Edit.

  2. Each question is represented by a bar containing the question number, the type of question and its answer point value, and two links, Remove and Edit. You have the following options:

    • To change the order in which questions appear, use the Question drop-down list.
    • To delete the question from the assessment, click Remove. When prompted, click Remove to confirm the deletion or Cancel to keep the question.
    • To open the question editing screen, click Edit. Here, you can change anything about the question. See Creating questions for an assessment. Click Save to keep your changes.

  3. To add more questions to the assessment, you have two options:

    • On the editing screen, beneath the assessment title bar, use the Add Question: drop-down list to select the type of question to add.
    • On the editing screen, at the bottom of each question, use the Insert New Question drop-down list to select the type of question.

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Of a published assessment

You can modify the questions of an assessment listed under "Published Assessments"; however, you cannot change the order of the questions, nor can you add or remove questions, once an assessment is published. To modify the questions of a published assessment:

  1. From the drop-down menu for the assessment you want to modify, select Edit.

  2. To open the question editing screen, click Edit. Make your changes, and then click Save.

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