Creating and Managing

Quizzes, Self Tests, and Surveys

in WVU eCampus (version 4)
Contents 
Adding the Assessment Tool to your Course Toolbar ...................................................................... 2 
Assessment Tool in WVU eCampus .............................................................................................. 3 
Question Database ...................................................................................................................... 4 
Adding Questions.................................................................................................................................. 4 
Create a True False Question............................................................................................................... 5 
Create a Multiple Choice Question ....................................................................................................... 7 
Create a Matching Question ................................................................................................................. 9 
Create a Paragraph Question ............................................................................................................. 10 
Create a Calculated Question ............................................................................................................. 11 
Create a Jumbled Sentence Question ................................................................................................ 13 
Create a Quiz ............................................................................................................................ 15 
Assigning Points to Questions ............................................................................................................ 16 
Rearranging the order of questions .................................................................................................... 16 
Deleting questions ..............................................................................................................................16 
Create a Question Set ................................................................................................................ 17 
Assessment Settings .................................................................................................................. 18 
Editing Quiz Settings........................................................................................................................... 18 
Grading Paragraph Questions ..................................................................................................... 20 
Edit an Existing Quiz .................................................................................................................. 21 
Edit an existing assessment question........................................................................................... 22 
Assessment Manager ................................................................................................................. 23 
Resetting Attempts..............................................................................................................................25 
Generating Assessment Reports ................................................................................................. 26 
To run a Performance Report: ............................................................................................................ 26 
Self Tests .................................................................................................................................. 29 
Surveys ..................................................................................................................................... 30 
Exporting an Assessment ........................................................................................................... 31 
Importing an Exported Assessment ............................................................................................. 32 

   
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Adding the Assessment Tool to your Course Toolbar
1. Make sure you are under the Build tab
2. Click on Manage Course on the Designer Tools palette
3. Click on Tools from the list on the right

4. Put a checkmark in front of Assessments

5. Click on Save at the bottom of the list

The assessments tool is now visible on your Course Toolbar.

If you do not want your students to see the Assessments tool, you can hide it:
1. Click on Manage Course on the Designer Tools palette (on the Build tab)
2. Click on Course Menu from the list on the right

3. Click on the Hide Link button next to Assessments.

4. You do not have to save this change – it takes effect immediately.

Click on Course Content or some other tool to continue.

   
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Assessment Tool in WVU eCampus
You can use the Assessments tool to create online quizzes and exams, to create self-tests
where the students can review their knowledge of the material, and surveys where there are
no right answers. The survey assessment is not entirely anonymous: if an instructor watched
the gradebook, they could observe the submissions coming in (each student’s record is
marked as to whether or not they submitted a survey).

Type of Assessment Answers are Scored Results put in Grade Book

Quiz Yes Yes
Self-Test Yes No
Survey No Only that it has been submitted

You can allow students to complete an assessment more than once, you can control how the
questions are presented (one at a time or all at once), you can set time limits for the
completion of the assessment (e.g. 30 minutes), and you can control its availability (e.g. take
the quiz on Sept 27 between 3pm-7pm).

We are going to create and manage assessments using this set of steps:

1. Create a question bank of questions in the Question Database

2. Create an assessment
3. Modify the assessment settings
4. Control the visibility of the assessment

After the students complete the assessment, you can then:

• Grade paragraph questions

• Over-ride any grades
• Release the grades (and optionally class performance statistics) to the student
• Download student performance data

If you need to, you can reset an individual submission; you can also reset the entire quiz – if
you do this, everyone would have to retake the quiz.

At any point after creating a quiz, you can export it and download it to your local computer.
You can then import it for use in another course.

   
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abase
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category forr each chap
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Each question in the question

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etc.), used_
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a nt), and cate egory. You can also create additional colum mns in
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Adding Q
Questions
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1. Clickk on Assessments un
nder Course
e Tools.
2. Clickk on Go to Question
Q D
Database.

3. Clickk on Create
e Questions

4. Choooose a typee of questio

on: True/Fallse, Multiple
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Shorrt Answer, Paragraph,
P Fill in the Blank,
B …

   
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Create a True False Question
Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose True False. You will see:

Title: Enter the question title. You want the question title to give you some idea of the
question’s contents but you do not want it to provide hints to its answer (in case you choose to
reveal question titles to your students). Later the question title will help you select questions to
include in an assessment.
Question Text: Enter the question text. For a True False question, the text will be a
declarative statement. You can format the question text appearance with HTML (either by
hand or by using HTML Creator). HTML Creator can also be used to spell check your text.
Image: You can choose to include an image with the question. Click on the Browse button to
upload. You might want to enter an image title which will display when the student mouses
over the image (especially if the image file name provides a hint to the answer).
Answer: Choose the correct response by clicking on the radio button in front of True or False.

   
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Click on More Options to enter feedback or designer notes.
This is also a place where you can assign a question to a category (existing or new).

You can click on the Preview button to see how your question will look to your students:

Click on the Close button to leave the preview.

When you are finished, click on the Save button.

   
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Create a Multiple Choice Question
Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose Multiple Choice.
Complete the Question section as for the True False question: enter title and question text. Here the
question text will be in the form of a question.
Below the Question section, complete the Answer section:

Choose whether there is a single correct answer or multiple. If single, enter a checkmark in
front of the correct response.

Choose the settings that you desire: layout, labels, answer order, grading scheme. If you
choose to require multiple answers where each answer contributes a portion to the entire
score, you can choose whether they have to get all of the correct choices to get any points.

   
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You might also want to assign negative percentages to the incorrect choices for multiple
response questions (otherwise the students will learn to check all choices for points).

I definitely recommend not allowing a negative score which is possible if you have assigned
negative percentages to incorrect choices.
Preview of multiple response example:

   
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Create a Matching Question
Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose Matching.
Enter a question title and text. Here the question text will direct the students to select the
correct match for each item in the list.
Enter each item in the list on the left and the correct match directly opposite. The students will
see a drop-down list showing all of the choices from column 2. You can include extra choices
in column 2 that do not match with anything in column 1. You can also have a choice in column
2 that matches with more than one item in column 1.

You can click on Create Additional Pairs if you need to enter more items.

For Grading Scheme, I recommend “equally weighted” where the students can earn partial
credit. “All or Nothing” is also acceptable but might generate dissent. “Right minus wrong” can
possibly generate negative scores if the incorrect responses outnumber the correct ones and
there is not a choice to disallow negative scores as in the multiple choice question.
I prefer to not preview both columns as it makes the question appear less daunting.
You can set a category, preview, and save as we did for the other question types.

   
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Create a Paragraph Question
Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose Paragraph.

Enter the question title and text as before.

You can optionally choose to put text in the answer box that the students will see. This can be
additional instructions. Some people use this to increase the accessibility of the form for
students using screen reader software.

You can also choose to enter a sample correct answer (again, this is optional). This sample
response can be used by instructors and teaching assistants to help them grade the responses
and you can choose to display it to the students as a correct answer when the results and
feedback are revealed.

You can decide the size of the answer box on the screen. If the student’s entire answer does
not fit in the box, a scroll bar will appear and they can continue writing.

Note that Paragraph Questions must be hand-graded by the instructor and final quiz scores
cannot be calculated until this is done. If the quiz scores are released before this grading is
complete, the students will see a partial score in parentheses under My Grades.

   
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Create a Calculated Question
Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose Calculated.
In the question text, refer to the variables that you will need in your calculation.

After you enter your formula (similar to how you would do it in Excel),
click on Analyze Variables.

Variables: You can set the minimum and the maximum for each variable in your equation.
Choose how many possible variable pairs that will be used.

Click on Generate Answer Set.

   
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You will see:

You can manually change the value for one or more of the variables.
If you do so, click on Update Answer Set.

Preview and Save as we did on other questions.

   
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Create a Jumbled Sentence Question
This type of question readily lends itself to foreign language instruction.
Another possible use would be to put events or items in a specific order (see page 14).
1. Follow steps 1-4 on page 4 and choose Calculated.
2. Give the question a title.
3. In the question text, enter the words you wish to jumble in square brackets.

4. Click on Generate Answer. You will see:

5. Click on Preview if you wish.

Close your preview window.
6. Click on Save.

   
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Example 2: Ordered events

Here I put a <br /> HTML tag between each item to make it easier for the students to read.
If you include HTML in your text, be sure to check the “Use HTML” box.

   
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Create a Quiz
1. On the Course Toolbar under the Build tab, click on Assessments. You will see:

2. Click Create Assessment. The Create Assessment screen appears.

3. Enter the quiz title and select the assessment type. In the example, we are creating a
quiz. The responses are scored and the total score will be recorded in the gradebook.

4. Click Save. The Assessments screen appears.

   
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 5. Click on the ActionLinks button next to the assessment
you just created. Choose Go to Assessment.

6. Either click on Add to Assessment and choose Existing Questions

or click on Create Questions to create questions as we did in the previous section.

Assigning Points to Questions

For quizzes and self tests, you can assign points to questions. By default, questions are
assigned 10 points each. However, you can customize the number of points that questions
are worth.
1. From the Assessment screen, for each question for which you want to edit the points,
enter the new values for points.
2. Click Update Total.

Rearranging the order of questions

1. Select the question by putting a check mark next to it.
2. Click on the Move button next to the item you wish the question to be placed above.

Deleting questions
You can select multiple questions and click on the Remove button
or choose Remove from the ActionLinks menu item for an individual question.

   
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Create a Question Set
A question set is a group of questions where each student will receive a random subset to
answer. Be sure the questions in the question set cover the same field of content and are of
comparable difficulty (e.g. question type). All questions in a question set will be worth the same
number of points.
1. While editing an assessment, click on Add to Assessment
2. Choose Question Set.

3. You will then see the question database. Select one or more questions.

4. You will see the selected questions appear in an indented group:

5. You can move additional questions that are already in the assessment into the question
set. Put a check mark to select the items then click on a move icon inside the group.
You can also move the group to a different position.
6. Choose how many questions will be selected from the group and update the box for
how many points each question is worth.
7. Click on Update Total.

   
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A
Assess
sment Settings
S s
Now it’s tim
N me for the fin
nal step beffore you rellease your assessmennt to your sttudents.
A
Assessmen nt settings allow
a you to
o control the
e timing andd appearan
nce of your assessmen nt.

E
Editing Q
Quiz Settin
ngs
1. From
m the Asses
ssments screen, locate
e the quiz and
a click itss ActionLin
nks icon.

2. Choo
ose Edit Prroperties
3. You can edit or change the
e title of the
e quiz.
4. Select whether you want to o display qu
uestion title
es to studen
nts.
I alw
ways leave this
t uncheccked.
5. Select how you want the questions
q to
o be deliverred to stude ents:
all att once, one at a time, or
o one at a time withou ut revisiting
g.
6. Speccify if the as
ssessment is to be dissplayed in th
he same brrowser wind
dow or a ne
ew one.
7. Speccify the dura
ation of the
e quiz: speccify a numbe
er and the unit
u of mea
asurement.

8. Select the numb

ber of timess students can
c attemp
pt to comple
ete the asse
essment.
9. If mu
ultiple attem
mpts are allo
owed, enter the minimmum amoun nt of time yo
our studentss must
wait between atttempts. Se elect the units (days, hours,
h minutes).

   
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 10. If multiple attempts are allowed, select which attempt will be used for student scores
(first, last, highest, average).
11. Select how you want students’ scores to be released.

I recommend not releasing the scores on quizzes until after the availability period has
ended. For a self-test, I would release the score immediately to provide feedback for
learning. Surveys do not have scores.
12. Control the availability of the quiz by clicking on Dates Available. Enter a Start Time and
End Time. I would suggest not making the end time noon or midnight to avoid confusion
for the students.

Note that only the Start Time date for an assessment will be marked on the Calendar,
not the deadline’s End Time. If you wish the last day to take a quiz (if your quiz period
spans more than 1 day) to appear on the calendar, then you must create a calendar
entry manually.

   
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Grading Paragraph Questions
Under the Teach tab, click on the Assessment that you wish to work on. It might be a link on a
course page or an item under the Assessments tool. You will see a page similar to this:

Click on View Submissions.

Click on the Not Graded tab. You will see:

Click on the first attempt in the list.

Enter a score in the score box. You might be able to add comments for the question and for
the entire quiz. Click on Update Grade to save your changes. You will return to the list of not
graded assessments. The one you just graded can now be found under the Graded tab.

   
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Edit an Existing Quiz
NOTE: You cannot edit a quiz if any of the students have taken it yet, including the demo student.
If your demo student has taken the quiz, you can reset the submission.

Click on the Assessments tool

Click on the name of the quiz you wish to edit

You can move questions to a new location, you can delete questions, you can change the
point values… You can add new questions to the quiz…
• Click on Add to Assessment button to add a question from your question database.

• Click on Create Questions to invent a new question on the fly

   
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E
Edit an existin
ng asse
essmen
nt questtion
Click on the
C e question title.
t
Y will see
You e a form jus
st like what you comple
eted when you created the questtion.

Change the
C e question or
o answers as you nee ed to.
C
Click on Save. You willl see a warrning aboutt this questiion being used in asse
essments:

C
Click on OK
K.

   
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Assessment Manager
The Assessment Manager is available only under the Teach tab, on the Instructor Tools
palette. It contains 4 tabs: Graded, Not Graded, Not Submitted, and All.

1. Click on Assessment Manager.

2. Click on the All tab to see information about all of the assessments.

3. You can click on ActionLinks icon next to an assessment and choose an option:

4. In the upper right corner, you can choose to view a single

assessment or return to viewing all of the assessments.
Choose an item from the list and click on the green > button.

5. Click on the name of an assessment to expand it and see the details of the
submissions. This option is the same as choosing View Submissions from the icon.

   
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 6. To view an individual attempt, click on the date/time stamp in the Attempt column.
Here you can override the points on an individual question and provide comments.

7. If you wish to manually change a grade, click the grade value that you want to modify.
The Modify Grade pop-up window appears.

In the Grade text box, enter a new grade. In the Audit Log Comments text box, enter
comments.
Click Save. The Graded tab appears and the new grade is displayed.
The old grade is displayed in parentheses.
8. If you have changed the question or answer on an assessment, you will see an
additional choice to Update the Outdated Attempts in the ActionLinks icon:

   
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Resetting Attempts
You can reset an attempt to give students an opportunity to retake the assessment. For
example, if a student experiences technical problems while taking the quiz, you can reset the
submission and re-release the attempt to the student.

To reset attempts:
1. From within the Assessment Manager, click the tab that contains the assessment that
you want to reset an attempt for. For instance, the All tab or the Not Graded tab.

2. Click on the assessment name or on its Expand icon.

3. Do one of the following:
To reset all attempts, click on the Reset Entire Submission button at the bottom.
To reset a specific’s student’s attempt, locate the row for the student. Click the
ActionLinks icon next to the attempt and choose Reset Attempt.

   
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G
Genera
ating As
ssessm
ment Re
eports
Y can generate repo
You orts to dete
ermine how well studen
nts are perfforming on quiz assesssments.

T run a Performa
To P ance Report:
1. From
m the Asses
ssment Mannager, nextt to any asssessment, click
c on its ActionLinks
A s icon
and choose
c Vie
ew Reports
s.

2. Select a Report Type:

3. For this
t example, select Comparison
n Statistics ss from the drop
s and choosse All Clas
downn box.
4. Clickk Run Repo
ort.

5. Clickk on Download Recorrds to save

e this display as an Exccel csv file.

   
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 6. To generate another type of report, click on the breadcrumb link to Assessment Reports.
7. Choose Overall Statistics. You will see:

8. Click on Manage Columns to display or hide certain columns or choose Hide Column
under the ActionLinks icon next to the column heading.
9. Click on Statistics under the ActionLinks icon next to the column heading.
A screen containing the question and a table of response summary data appears which
shows a summary of responses including percentages.

Click on OK to return to the previous view.

10. Click on View by Question to see an item analysis on all questions at once:

Click on View by Student to return to the previous view.

   
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 11. Click on the Query button to display only those students who meet some type of
criteria. In this example, I am asking for only those students whose grades were higher
than 20 on this quiz.
a. Enter the criterion column, the operator phrase, and the value.

b. Click on the Query button.

c. You will see only those records that meet your query.
d. Click on Show All Records to view all students again.

12. Click on Printable Statistics View button to obtain a response summary and grade
distribution summary along with a copy of each question in a single web page that can
be printed.

   
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Self Tests
You create a self test exactly as you would a quiz: select correct answers for questions, assign
point values, etc. The difference is that you can choose to let the student can view their results
right away, including feedback, as they answer each question.

While they are taking the quiz, instead of Save, they can click on the choice to Check Answer
if you chose to show them immediate feedback:

The correct answer and any feedback is displayed. The student will click on Next Question to
move on (unless you elected to show them the questions all at once).

After they complete all questions, they can click on Finish to see their final score.
This score is NOT recorded in the grade book.

   
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Surveys
Surveys are created the same as quizzes. It is odd that you must select a correct answer for
the questions – but that is in case the questions are also used in a quiz or self-test. The
responses are not scored against the answer key; however, the raw responses can be viewed
and downloaded.

After a student submits a survey, the grade book column will indicate that the survey has been
completed. This means that the surveys are not completely anonymous as an instructor could
monitor their grade book for incoming surveys.

After your students have completed a survey, you can generate a summary report
– Overall Statistics by Student is the report that makes the most sense.

Click on Download Records to save all responses into an Excel csv file on your computer.

In Excel, you can create a Pivot Table and other statistical summaries
that are not possible in eCampus.

   
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E
Exporti
ing an Assess
A sment
1. Clickk on the Assessments
s tool under the Coursse Tools (un
nder the Bu
uild tab)

2. Clickk on the ActtionLinks iccon next to the

t quiz you wish to export.
e
3. Choo
ose Exportt from the drop-down
d list.
4. You will see the
e Content Browser
B win
ndow pop up prompting you to se elect a file lo
ocation
and to
t enter a file name. In
n this exam
mple, I name
ed the file ch1quiz
c and
d put it in Class Files.

5. Clickk on OK.
6. Use the File Ma ad the zip file.
anager tool under Designer tools to downloa

   
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Importing an Exporte
ed Asse
essmen
nt
1 Designe
1. er Tools > Manage
M Co
ourse

2 Choose Import from the list on

2. o the right. You will se
ee a Get Filles dialog window.
w
3 You mig
3. ght end up in the My Files directory. Click on
n My Comp
puter to upload files.

4 Look in the
4. t folder on
o your com mputer where you save
ed your exp
ported quiz earlier
and sele
ect the desired file.
5 Select th
5. he file and click
c on the
e Open buttton.
6 During the transferr, you mightt see an Up
6. pload Statuss box.
7 Then yo
7. ou will see a "Content Import in Progress" sccreen. Be patient here.
8 If there are
8. a any erro
or message
es, choose to view the
e import log
g. There mig
ght be a pro
oblem
with you
ur file.
9 If there were
9. w no errrors, click on
o the Return button.
1 The imp
10. ported quiz
z is now parrt of your Asssessmentss inventoryy. You can add
a a link to
o it from
a coursse page or from
f within a learning module.

   
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