Creating a Question Set in ActivInspire (Not Self-Paced)

1. Open a new flipchart 2. Click INSERT and QUESTIONS

The Question Manager will open. All questions can be added to an entire flipchart within this manager.

Key Features of the Question Manager

Page Navigator: Flipchart creator can navigate from one flipchart page to the next

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Type of Question: Pull down menu allows flipchart creator to choose from all question types Add a question

3. To enter a question under Question, click and then type the desired question. Once the flipchart creator presses ENTER, the following window will appear.

4. Notice the Question Properties window that opened. The flipchart creator decides upon each questions properties.

This is where the flipchart creator decides on the number of choices, each options wording, the correct answer, etc. Multiple Choice Options: A, B, C, D; a, b, c, d; or 1, 2, 3, 4 Options Wording: Type in the wording for EACH option (ActivInspire limits this space) Correct Answer: Click the box if this IS the correct option X: Click X to delete that option if too many are available Number of responses required: Allows the flipchart creator to allow more than one answer

If the flipchart creator clicks Include follow-on question, another box appears (under this follow-on option) to type in only a confidence type question.

5. Click Flipchart Page Properties, place a check next to Replace the page content with a new design and choose a design. (Not all designs work properly but the design CAN be changed.) For one question per flipchart page, these properties MUST be chosen for the audience to view the question within a flipchart. 6. Click APPLY. Click Done once all the questions are typed in that flipchart. (Questions can be edited at any time.) 7. If another question is needed on another page, go to the top of the Question Manager, click the right arrow next to Page 1 of 1. This advances the flipchart to the next page so that when the next question is added it will be on the next page in the flipchart. Complete the same steps to add additional questions on separate pages of the flipchart. When all questions have been added, click Done.

To Edit a Question Set within a Flipchart

1st Method: Click Edit and Questions on Current Page

This opens the Question Manager to allow the flipchart creator to edit the question set. 2nd Method: (Not for self-paced question sets) All of the text that is on the flipchart page can be manipulated as a text box. To prevent a text box from moving, lock the box.

To Create a Self-Paced Question Set in ActivInspire

1. Open a new flipchart 2. Click INSERT and QUESTIONS

3. To enter a question under Question, click and then type the desired question. Once the flipchart creator presses ENTER, the following window will appear. 4. The Question Properties window opens and the flipchart creator decides upon each questions properties.

This is where the flipchart creator decides on the number of choices, each options wording, the correct answer, etc. 5. To add another question click next to the number and follow the same procedures again. 6. Once all questions have been included, click on Test Properties.

The flipchart creator types a title and description for the test. This WILL show on the flipchart page. (I type in my test directions for the description.) Next to Time Limit, set the time allowed for students to take this test. (I set it for the length of the class.) Control progress through levels allows for the teacher to monitor the progress of the test while the students are using the ActivExpressions. The box is automatically checked. (I leave it checked to monitor the progress of the test. I do freeze the computer screen so the students read only the test title and description and cannot view the progress.) The flipchart creator can change the level of the questions (how many questions students must get correct in order to advance to the next level) and randomize the questions that appear on the ActivExpressions from one ActivExpression to the next. A check automatically appears in the box next to Allow students to retry incorrect answers. If this box is checked and a student incorrectly answers a question, the question will reappear

on the ActivExpression until the student answers the question correctly. (If students are answering an assessment, I uncheck this box.) 7. Click Test Feedback Properties if the flipchart creator would like for the students to know the number of questions they answer correct, incorrect, and summary. (I never check these.)

8. Click Flipchart Page Properties and check the box next to Replace the content with a new design so that the title and description appear in the flipchart. 9. Click APPLY and Done once all the questions are typed. (Questions can be edited at any time.)

Printing Question Sets

Self-Paced or One Question per Page
In the Question Manager click on the Document View Available option in Document View: 1. Change the document properties on the left 2. Download and save document as a pdf file. Once downloaded, convert the document to a word document to be able to edit. 3. Print document as it appears on the monitor.

What to do AFTER Students Finish a Self-Paced Question Set

The following are steps that can be taken with the students answers after a self-paced question set has been completed. Picture #1

1. Stop the voting 2. Open the Voting Browser 3. Click + sign next to Results Browser Self-Paced Assessments 4. Picture #2 opens: In this example, students have completed Plate Tectonics Test. When the students finish taking the test, the teacher can save the flipchart which saves the results of the self-assessment which allows for all answers to be retrieved later. Picture #2

5. If Export is clicked, the results are saved in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then the results can be open within Excel. (Make sure you know where you are saving the file!)

6. If you click

and click View Results, then the following picture opens.

On the left hand side is the Response Timeline; it can be copied and pasted into the flipchart by clicking the button.

On the right hand side is a list of each ActivExpression with the number of correct answers, incorrect answers, average response time, and then the questions are presented with student responses and whether the responses sent in is correct or incorrect. This can be printed. A page for each ActivExpression with the information that is present on the left side of the screen is printed. The teacher also has the option to print the same information for a selected ActivExpression by selecting the ActivExpression wanted next to Select.