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Dynamic Learning v2 Tutorial 14: Test and Assess Setting tests and tasks for students

Assessment in trial mode

If you’re trialling a Dynamic Learning title, you may have opted to do so without identifying a User

Manager or setting up individual logins. Tutorial 9 will tell you more about the User Manager process.

If you are using the generic logins we sent you by email, you may now want to consider setting up

students with unique logins so that they can take tests and have their scores recorded. For more

information see Tutorial 10, Manage users.

Using the Test and Assess resources as a Teacher or Teacher Admin

Only certain titles contain Test and

Assess online resources with full

reporting and feedback. Other titles may

contain interactive test material without

full reporting. Yet others may contain full

reporting and feedback on Tasks, but the

tasks themselves are supplied in the form

of documents you can hand out to

students, rather than tests to take online.

These tasks are not electronically

marked, but teachers can record marks

within Dynamic Learning, and profile

students for remediation. For more on

Reports, see Tutorial 16.

Click on the cover icon for the title you

want to manage.

A Dynamic Learning title with Test and Assess resources

Straight from the Course home page, you can:

• See the due dates of tests you have assigned (the

date will be red if it is overdue) in the order in

which you assigned them – most recent first

• Click on the name of the test to load a marksheet

for just those students to whom you assigned it,

so you can see how they are doing

• See more tests, using the ‘show more…’ link

• Change the Assign/Show all setting, so that you

can decide how much your students can see of

the tests available.

If any title in the course or

package that you subscribe to

has Test and Assess material,

you’ll be able to see this panel

on the home page. If there is

no Test and Assess material

associated with the package,

there will be no panel visible.

The Assign/show all setting (see below) lets you

organise tests

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Assign / show all

Your course or package

may have more than one

title with tests.

If you prefer to make all

tests available to all

students, rather than

assign them specifically to

individual students or

groups, you can do this on

a title-by-title basis using

this panel.

Any teacher or teacher

admin with access to

Manage DL can do this,

and it applies to any Test

and Assess title.

Remember, this will affect

the title for the whole

institution, not just you

and your own students.

Accessing tests and tasks from the home page

• View all tests takes you to the list of

all tests for this course or package

• Assign tests lets you assign any test

directly to a student or group of

students

• Assign tasks (if there are some in the

package) does the same thing for

tasks

• Marksheets and reports shows you

the reports for students or groups on

the tests or tasks in the package. This

is covered in Tutorial 16.

View all tests

The View all tests button takes

you to this screen, listing all tests

and tasks for your title. You can

use the listing to launch a

particular test, or the test cog to:

• add to a test to a lesson

• assign the test

• view the assignment history

• view the mark grid

If a title is set to ‘Show’, all students will automatically have access

to all tests. Teachers can still assign the tests, however.

If a title is set to ‘Assign’, then students will not see all tests –

they’ll see just those that have been assigned to them.

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Assign tests

The Assign tests button launches a

panel that allows you to select one

of the titles in the course, then a

test.

You can then filter the students by

means of the groups they may be

in, or the title to which they have

access, or simply alphabetically by

first name or last name.

Before assigning the test to

students, you can fix the duration

of its availability, and send them a

message along with the test, if you

like.

Assign tasks

Assign tasks is similar, but now the

dropdown only contains tasks.

These appear in the Students’ ‘To

do’ list, just as tests do, but there

is no automatic online marking.

At the foot of the screen for both

Assign test and Assign task,

there’s a ‘View assignment history’

button to show you which

students have been sent the test,

and when.

You’ll get a message whenever you

assign a test or task.

The Preview test button

gives you a chance to look at

the test before you assign it

The ‘View assignment

history’ button

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Assign/share a test or task from the Resource list

Just as you can assign a test from

the cog on the Tests overview

screen, you can also do this from

the Resources overview, where

tests and tasks appear alongside

other resources.

Click open the resource cog, then

use Assign test to open the Assign

dialog box as before.

Assign a test from Search results

Using the Search filters, you can

produce a list of all Interactive

tests.

The cog that appears by each

resource can be opened and used,

as before, to assign the test.

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Assign/share a test from Manage DL – coming soon

Another way to assign a test is by

using the Assign test button from

within Manage DL.

This method will work in much the

same way as assignation from the

Test list, but in this case, you will

first need to select the title and

individual test that you want to

assign.

Assign/share a test by adding it to a lesson

You can add as many Test and Assess tests

as you choose to a given lesson, and

assign/share it in the same way as you

would any other lesson, to as many

students as you wish.

When you share the lesson with students,

a notification about any tests it contains is

also posted in the students’ message box

and ‘To Do’ list.

For more information about the lesson

Builder, see Tutorials 6 and 7.

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Notification in students’ To Do list

When you send specific

assignments to your

students, their Messages

list and To Do list will both

contain a notification of

which test has been set.

They will be able to click

either listing to open and

complete the test.

If you sent them the test(s)

within a lesson, that lesson

will have a notification in

each student’s message

inbox.

If the tests setting for a title is to ‘show all’ assessments, no special notification is

needed. When the student logs in, they will find they have access to all tests.

However, you can now assign a test to a student regardless of the title’s assign or

show setting, and regardless of whether the student ordinarily has access to that

title.