Sakai: Tests & Quizzes

Tests & Quizzes

• With the Tests & Quizzes tool, you can create online tests, practice exercises, surveys, and other forms of assessment.
• Question types can include multiple choice, fill in the blank, matching, essay, and more.
• Below are detailed instructions for creating online assessments, publishing them so students can take them, grading them, and more.
• Assessments can be created question by question, or through already prepared text, "markup text".

Basics

• Sakai 19 User Guide: Tests and Quizzes
• How to Create Online Tests: Video | Handout
  • How to Create an Assessment Using Markup Text (pdf)
  • Which test settings should I choose? (pdf)
  • What do each of the Test "Feedback" Settings mean (such as Question-level and Selection-level feedback)?
• How to Publish a Test or Quiz: Video | Handout
• How to Grade Tests: Video | Handout

Best Practices for Testing in Online and Hybrid Courses

• Best Practices for Tests and Quizzes (pdf)
• Tips to Minimize Technical Problems and Deter Cheating (pdf)

Importing Tests

• Copy a test from one Sakai site to another

Pools

• TLC live webinar 3/29/17: How to Create Randomized Tests in Sakai with Pools (54:15 min)
  • Description: Pools are another tool you can add to your tool kit to deter online cheating. By creating test pools in Sakai and using “random draw,” instructors can deliver a unique test to each student.
  • Presented by: Wilma Hodges, Director, Training & eLearning Initiatives at Longsight, Inc.
• Sakai 19 User Guide: What is a Question Pool?

Surveys

• Creating Surveys in Sakai (pdf)

Advanced Topics / Special Situations

• Allow Extra Time on Tests (or Extend the Due Date) for Selected Students (PDF)
• How do I allow a student to retake an ACTIVE test or quiz (before the due or late acceptance date)
• How can an instructor retrieve student tests that were saved but not submitted?
• How do I view student statistics after they've completed a test or quiz?

• What is the Tests and Quizzes Event log?
• What is the Tests and Quizzes User Activity Report?
• Get student name, submit date/time, and test score