DOC EN 1.8 EXERCISE

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Help: Tests

The tests tool allows you to create tests that will contains as many questions as you like.

There are various types of answers available for the creation of your questions :

  • Multiple choice (Unique answer)
  • Multiple choice (multiple answers)
  • Matching
  • Fill in the blanks

A test gathers a certain number of questions. Test creation

In order to create a test, click on the link "New test".

Type the test name, as well as an optional description of it.

You can add an audio or a video file, for listening comprehension etc. It is up to you to choose these files as light as possible so that they download easily through the web. Prefer .mp3 files to .wav file for instance, because of a better compression and then smaller file size.

You can also choose between 2 test types :

  • Questions on an unique page
  • One question per page (sequential)

and tell if you want questions to be randomly sorted at the time of test running.

Then, save your test. You will go to to the question administration. Adding a question

You can now add a question into the test previously created. The description is optional, as well as the picture that you have the possibility to link to your question.

Multiple choice

In order to create a MAQ / MCQ :

  • Define the answers for your question. You can add or delete an answer by clicking on the right button
  • Check the left box for the correct answer(s)
  • Add an optional comment. This comment won't be seen by the user untill he/she has answered to the question
  • Give a weighting to each answer. The weighting can be any positive or negative integer, or zero
  • Save your answers

Fill in the blanks

This allows you to create a text with gaps. The aim is to let the user find words that you have removed from the text.

To remove a word from the text, and so to create a blank, put this word between brackets [like this].

Once the text has been typed and blanks defined, you can add a comment that will be seen by the student when it replies to the question.

Save your text, and you will enter the next step that will allow you to give a weighting to each blank. For example, if the question worths 10 points and you have 5 blanks, you can give a weighting of 2 points to each blank.

Matching

This answer type can be chosen so as to create a question where the user will have to connect elements from an unit U1 with elements from an unit U2.

It can also be used to ask the user to sort elements in a certain order.

First define the options among which the user will be able to choose the good answer. Then, define the questions which will have to be linked to one of the options previously defined. Finally, connect via the drop-down menu elements from the first unit with those of the second one.

Notice : Several elements from the first unit can point to the same element in the second unit.

Give a weighting to each correct matching, and save your answer. Test modification

In order to modify a test, the principle is the same as for the creation. Just click on the picture beside the test to modify, and follow instructions above. Test deleting

In order to delete a test, click on the picture beside the test to delete it.

Test enabling

So as for a test to be used, you have to enable it by clicking on the picture beside the test name. Running the test

You can test your exercise by clicking on its name in the tests list. Random questions

At the time of test creation / modification, you can tell if you want questions to be drawn in a random order among all questions of the test.

By enabling this option, questions will be drawn in a different order every time users will run the test.

If you have got a big number of questions, you can also choose to randomly draw only X questions among all questions available in that exercise. Questions pool

When you delete a test, its questions are not removed from the database, and they can be reused into a new test, via the questions pool.

The questions pool also allows to reuse the same question into several tests.

By default, all the questions of your course are hidden. You can show the questions related to a test, by chosing this one in the drop-down menu "Filter".

Orphan questions are questions that don not belong to any test.

Adding a question HotPotatoes Tests

You can import HotPotatoes tests into Dokeos portal, to this Tests tool. Results of these tests are stored the same way as Dokeos tests. You can explore the results in User Tracking. In case of single tests, we recommend to use html or htm format, if your test contains pictures, a zip file upload is the most convenient way.

Note : You can add HotPotatoes Tests as a step in the Learning Path, as well. Method of the import

  • Select the file on your computer using the Browse button on the right of your screen.
  • Launch the upload with the Upload Button .
  • You can open the test by clicking onto its name.


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