WebCT

Online Testing

Overview of this workshop

• Is there anything you see that has been neglected or omitted from this lecture?

What this workshop is not:

• A workshop where you will create a full fledged course.
• It presumes previous experience with WebCT.

Having said that: This course *is* an introduction on how to incorporate online testing into your WebCT structure; at the end of this session you will have seen some examples of how WebCT allows you to evaluate students.  You will have added questions to the "Question Database" and created a quiz.

Quizzes and Your Course:

This resource does not deal with the "Self Test" tool available within the "Course Content" area of your course.

Make questions then quizzes.  Quizzes are just organizational structures for questions:

• A question might be organized into a quiz and also into the midterm.  It might be worth one point as a quiz question but five points when it returns on the midterm.

Add Questions to your course's Question Database:

1. Log onto your course (http://cougar.csusm.edu/) and (in the upper frame) click on "Online Quizzes and Surveys."
2. In the bottom frame, click on "Question Database."
3. You will see three frames:
   • In the left frame you see the categories of questions: You may have as many or as few categories as you like; this way, you may organize questions by quiz, subject, type, etc.   Or, you may opt to keep your questions organized by course and have a single general category for each of your WebCT courses.
   • In the right frame you see nothing, till you click on a category; then, the questions are displayed here.
   • In the bottom frame you see the buttons:
     • Edit Columns
     • New Category
     • Delete Category
     • New Question
     • Batch Upload
     • Listing...
       • Query lists vs. Categories
4. If you clicked "New Question" you would see the bottom frame change to list the five types of questions you may use:
   • Multiple Choice
     • Cover: Question in Category... , HTML, possible multiple correct answers and scoring, and feedback.
   • Matching
     • Cover: multiple matches (on both sides), and "Save As New"
   • Paragraph
     • Cover: no automatic grading and the pre-fill the answer box option as well as the correct answer option.
   • Short Answer
     • Cover: exact spelling, percentage score and multi-part questions.
   • Calculated

Batch Upload is also a possibility for question generation; look at the PDF file (get Adobe Acrobat) for details.

Make a Quiz (Add "Surveys" and "Labels" the same way):

1. Log onto your course (http://cougar.csusm.edu/) and (in the upper frame) click on "Online Quizzes and Surveys."
2. In the bottom frame, click on "Add Quiz;" enter the quiz title and click "Add."
3. You will see your new quiz in the top frame.
   • To change the settings for a quiz: click on it's title and, in the new bottom frame, click "Settings."
   • To grade a quiz: click the "(Grade Quiz)" link from the Quiz Homepage of your course.
     • To download the results for a quiz:
       1. Click the "(Grade Quiz)" link from the Quiz Homepage of your course.
       2. Click the "Results" button at the top left to view the results for that quiz.
       3. Then click the "Download" button in the bottom frame to download the results for that quiz to a local file (tab delimited text) that can, then, be read into a spreadsheet or database application.

Also cover:

• Labels and Surveys vs. Quizzes
• Adding a Single Question(s) vs. Adding a Question Set
• Adding Alternates (to make Single Questions into Question Sets)
• Marks, or points for each question
• Randomly Choose to create unique quizzes for each student
• "Edit Header"
• "Settings"

Check out WebCT's comprehensive directions for adding quizzes (et al.) to your WebCT course.

http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/docs/quiz/quiz.pdf (get Adobe Acrobat)

Q&A:

Maintained by Garrett Collins (garrett@mailhost1.csusm.edu), last updated 05/22/04

as of 5/3/99