Christine DohertyLydia Li

Karen Tsao

Stanford University

(aka Tests & Quizzes)

S akaiA ssessment M anager IGO

Agenda

• Feature Overview• Demo of Features• 2.5 Highlights• 2.6 Roadmap• Quick Create Demo• Q&A

What are SAMigo’s features:

• Assessment Authoring• Assessment Publishing• Assessment-Taking Management• Assessment Grading• Question Pools Management• Assessment-Type Management

Pedagogical Flexibility

• Online test• Self-study questions• Homework, problem-sets• Paper, code, or project submission• Language drills• Quick knowledge probes• Surveys• Others???

Organize & Publish Assessments• Core (pending) Assessments for a course

– Starting page for assessment authoring– Can be exported/imported in QTI XML format– When ready, published via Settings

• Published Assessments for student assessment-taking– When students respond, Scores link appears– Can change release, due, retract dates, plus

some feedback and grading settings– Can remove published assessments * New in 2.5

Question Types

Auto-scored• Multiple Choice (single and multiple correct)• Survey (multiple choice, different rating scales

available)• Fill in the Blank• Numeric Response• Matching• True/False

Manually scored• Short Answer/Essay• Audio Recording• File Upload

Rich-Text & Attachments

• At all levels of assessment authoring:– Assessment/Part Headers – Questions– Selections– Feedback

Create an Assessment

* New in 2.5

* New in 2.5

* New in 2.5

Import/Export

• Supports QTI v 1.2• Export types: IMS QTI-compliant XML or IMS

Content Packaging (for use with attachments)• Useful for

– Making copies of core assessment in same site– Copying assessment to different site

Settings• Configures delivery of assessments (how they

appear to students)

• Options include: – display/organization

– late handling

– number of submissions

– feedback options

– high security and time limit for high stakes testing

• Most settings are not editable after publishing, so it is very important for instructors to review these carefully before publishing

* New in 2.5

Save Settings and Publish - to release to students

Save Settings - to make changes to core assessment settings,

can publish assessement at later time

Publishing

• Release assessment to students• Copy of core assessment -- core assessment

can be modified without affecting published version (and released with new title)

• Can set Available Date in future -- useful for instructors who want to do bulk of setup early

• Can retract any time, making assessment unavailable to all students

Published Inactive Assessments

• Retracted assessments will not appear to any students

• Assessments that are past the due date will not appear to students, with following exception:– When late submission is allowed, students who

have not submitted will get “one last chance” to submit

Taking an Assessment (Students)

• Take an Assessment section– List determined by available, due, and retract dates– Submit for Grading and Save for Later options– Table of Contents and Mark for Review features

available in non-linear assessment organization

• Submitted Assessments section– Provides submission confirmation with timestamp– Depending on settings, students can review scores,

feedback, grader’s comments, statistics

Grading Workflows

• Ability to grade all questions for one student or grade all responses to one question

• Manual adjustments can be made to individual questions or entire assessment

• Comments can be made for individual questions or entire assessment

• Display of scores can be filtered by section

Other Grading Features

• Email students from Scores page• Allow Retake for individual student• Download All function for file upload

questions -- generates zip file of all student submissions

• Statistics and histograms• Export students' responses to Excel file (New

in 2.5)

Grading Settings

• Anonymous grading OR show student identities

• Send scores to Gradebook -- this can be toggled on and off after assessment is published

• Record highest score OR last score

* New in 2.5

Question Pools

• Organize questions into multiple subpools • Move/copy/remove multiple questions to

other pool * New in 2.5• Author questions from within Pool Manager• Import questions from IMS QTI-compliant

XML file• Randomly draw from pools for an assessment• IMPORTANT NOTE: Question pools belong

to an individual user only, available across all user’s sites

Assessment Types

• Create assessment “types” for different disciplines, different uses

• Hide complexity by selecting which settings are visible to the instructor.

• Pre-set defaults by making setting choices for the type (e.g., Self-study always has immediate feedback)

Assessment Creation Workflow

2.5 Highlights• Adjust score in edit assessment screen *• Remove published assessments• Allow feedback to be viewed right after an assessment is

submitted• Export students' responses to Excel file **• Reset point values of questions when a random draw

from pool part is created *• Move/copy/remove multiple questions to other pool *• Copy all questions in a part to a selected pool *• Event logging for user operations

* Contributed by Rutgers University** Partly based on contributions from Rutgers University

2.6 Roadmap• Edit a published assessment

– Includes editing content of existing questions and most settings

– Does not include editing parts, reordering parts or questions, adding or removing questions

– Ability to regrade auto-scored questions for existing submissions

• Copy a (core) pending assessment• Share question pools *• Release assessment to one or more groups/sections **• Statistics for item analysis **

* Based on contributions from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia** Contributed by University of Cape Town

Quick Create• Contributed by Claremont McKenna College and

UC Davis• Disabled by default, but can be turned on in sakai

properties• Efficiency created by reducing number of clicks,

pages loading and saving• Useful for transferring assessments created in other

applications or LMS (e.g., MS Word, WebCT), no need to paste into different fields

• Rich text and attachments can be added later, through edit assessment screen

Questions?

Contacts

Questions and feeback: samigo-dev@lists.stanford.edu

Lydia Li, Stanford University Project Manager lydial@stanford.edu

Homepage:http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAM