The purpose of this Tutorial is to provide all instructors with a step-by-step procedure on how they can design courses and questions, create classes and invite students, assign exams and finally deploy exams with confidence publicly and privately and still protect copyrighted materials.
First you must sign-up:
Choose teacher and sign-up:
Choose a username and a password. Entering a correct email is important to confirm your registration. Don't forget your username! It can't be retrieved for the moment (will change in next version).
You should document correctly your country and time zone of residence, in order to take the exams in due time.
Type the two words in the captcha area (this is to avoid machine registration)
Click on the Submit button
To log in and edit your account:
Click on "log in" on the tab bar. Enter your username and password. Click on Sign in.
Two modes are available for creating exams: easy and advanced. You can switch from one mode to another by editing your profile from your Dashboard.
In easy mode, you can only create exams and allow them to be publicly available (like those displayed on our home page « Featured Exams », « Top Rated Exams » or « Most Taken Exams »), or generate a secret URL to allow people around you (colleagues, friends, students, ...) to take them online privately.
From your Dashboard you can:
In advanced mode, you can manage courses and pools of questions, you generate exam templates from these courses, you manage classes where your students register, and you schedule exams for these classes. Advance Mode is a very powerful environment to manage a long term life cycle of exams as a teacher or an instructor.
Online exams can be created within the advanced mode in 3 steps. Their sequence must be respected as illustrated below
In the Dashboard area start by clicking on “New Course” to create a course and its Master list of questions.
Fill in all required fields * and validate by clicking “Save”:
Prior to creating questions a course with its chapter(s) must be defined. You can either create questions or import them in bulk from a XML or CSV file.
Click on "New Question", select the type of question you want to use and accordingly type your question before finally relating it to a chapter that has already been created.
Four key types of questions are available:
By clicking “Save and continue” you can and repeat the above process until you have designed enough questions to generate an exam. Once you have created all your questions, click “Save and quit”.
Clicking on “Back” will get you back to your Dashboard.
From your Dashboard click “New Class” to create a class.
Fill in all required fields * in “My Class” window:
Go to “My Dashboard” click “Assign Exam” and then click on the name of the Exam that must be assigned (Remember: selection is made from the list of Exam that you have already created in Step 3 called “Designing Exams”.
Finally select the classes to which you have decided to deploy your exam and specify details such as start and time, date, anonymous, proctored and grading system before your click “Submit” for validation.
Now your class has been assigned an Exam. The list of your scheduled exams can be viewed from your Dashboard (scroll down at the bottom of the page – you can also view the same list by clicking “More...” a new page called “Deployed Exam List” will then open informing you of the status).
About “Anonymous”: If you click Anonymous, the name of the exam taker(s) will not be displayed for teachers correction, in this way the correction is fully objective because those exam taker(s) who have taken the exam are not identified during correction (useful option).
About “Proctored”: If you click Proctored, when the exam will start, exam taker(s) will not be able to take the exam until the teacher has personally validated the list of the exam taker(s) who have been authorized to take the exam, because the teacher is considering that they are "present" in a way or another (for actual class exam settings). However it's up to the teacher to authenticate his/her exam taker(s). The system cannot perform this task and authenticate exam taker(s) by digital photographs, fingerprints and signatures, but the system can provide the teacher the way to be sure that an exam taker who has not been validated by the teacher will not be able to take the exam remotely without permission, even if he/she belongs to his class.
Exams can be auto-graded by the application (this option doesn't apply to essay questions) with immediate or delayed grading delivery to the students and automatic score comments can also be defined by the teacher while designing the exam.
Deployed exams and their current status can be seen from your Dashboard. If you haven't chosen the auto-graded and automatic score comments, you'll then need to click on the exam name and then comment the results manually.
As a Teacher, you may sell exams or ask your students to pay a participation fee for attending your online classes. This option must be activated inside the Teacher Profile from your Dashboard. Selling Exams and class subscription requires a valid PayPal Account. You may then define your default exam/class fee.
