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 called "markup text".

Basics

• Sakai 21 User Guide: Tests and Quizzes
• Creating Tests
  • How to Create Online Tests (video) | How to Create Online tests Handout (PDF)
  • How to Create an Assessment Using Markup Text (PDF)
  • Using Images in Test Questions (PDF)
• Publishing Tests
  • How to Publish a Test or Quiz (video) | How to Publish a Test or Quiz Handout (PDF)
  • Understanding Test Feedback Settings/Options (UNC-CH)
• Grading Tests
  • How to Grade Tests (video) | How to Grade Tests Handout

Tips to Encourage Academic Honesty

• Tips to Minimize Technical Problems and Deter Cheating on Online Tests (PDF)
• Webinar Recording: When Good Students Make Bad Decisions: The Psychology of Why Students Cheat
  • (Presented 9/22/2021 by Dr. David Rettinger, University of Mary Washington)
• Small, Scalable Changes for Improving Academic Integrity (Univ of Mary Washington)
• Academic Integrity Checklist for Instructors (PDF)

Proctoring Options at Durham Tech

On-campus proctoring

• In-Person Proctored and Make-Up Testing Faculty Guidelines (Center for Academic Excellence)

Online, automated proctoring

Proctorio is an online, AI driven remote proctoring solution available in Sakai. To learn more about Proctorio, and to request it for your Online or Blended/Hybrid course, please visit the sites below:

• Proctorio for Instructors
• Proctorio for Students

Working with Question Pools

• What is a question pool?
• How do I create a question pool?
• How do I add a question to a question pool?
• How do I copy questions from the question pool into an assessment?
• How do I set up a random question set?

Advanced Topics / Special Situations

• Allowing Extra Time on Tests
  • Allowing Extra Time on Tests (or Extending the Due Date) for Selected Students (PDF)
• Allowing Students to Retake an Active Test or Quiz
  • Allowing a student to retake an ACTIVE test or quiz (before the due or late acceptance date)
• Retrieving Student Tests
  • Retrieving student tests that are saved but not submitted
• Using the Event Log in Tests & Quizzes
  • What is the Tests & Quizzes Event Log?
  • Using the Event Log to view student activity in Tests & Quizzes (UVA)
  • Get student name, submit date/time, and test score in Firefox
• Importing (copying) One Assessment to Another Course
  • Importing (Copying) One Assessment to Another Course

• Using the Tests and Quizzes User Activity Report
• Using the Tests & Quizzes tool to Create a Survey Sakai