Adding/creating, editing, or deleting an Assessment Type

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Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles.

About Assessment Types

An Assessment Type is a pre-selected set of assessment settings that can make it simpler for you to create assessments. Assessment Types are automatically shared throughout all of your course and project sites.

When you create or edit an Assessment Type, you determine what changes to settings you can make when you use the Assessment Type to create assessments. See Creating a new assessment for instructions on using an Assessment Type in assessment creation. For more information on assessment settings, see Assessment settings.

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Creating an Assessment Type

Note: You should not use the feedback option in Quiz & Survey when assessing learning, as it may provide information students can use to correct their answers before submitting a test.

To create an Assessment Type, follow these steps:

  1. In the menubar, click Quiz & Survey.
  2. On the Assessments page, click Assessment Types.
  3. Under "New Assessment Type", in the "Title" field, type a name for your Assessment Type, and then click Create.
  4. Under "Edit Assessment Type", you'll see a list of settings. To reveal the options for a setting, click its name or the triangular icon next to it. Then, check the boxes to select the settings and options that you can edit. Also, some of the settings have default values that you can set. For information on the settings and options available, see the Assessment Type settings section below.
  5. When you're finished, click Save. You will see your Assessment Type listed under "Saved Assessment Types".

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Editing an Assessment Type

To edit an Assessment Type, from the Assessment Types screen, under "Saved Assessment Types", click the name of the Assessment Type. For information on settings and options, see the Assessment Type settings section below. When you're finished, click Save.

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Deleting an Assessment Type

To delete an Assessment Type, from the Assessment Types screen, under "Saved Assessment Types", click the Remove link beneath the Assessment Type to be removed. Click Remove again to confirm.

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Assessment Type settings

When you create or edit an Assessment Type, you determine what changes to settings you can make when you create assessments based on the Assessment Type. The following settings and options are available:

  • Assessment Type Information: In the fields provided, set the title, author, and description for your Assessment Type. To make this information appear in the settings for any assessments that use this Assessment Type, put a checkmark in the Can be viewed? checkbox.
  • Assessment Introduction: Check these boxes to make it possible to edit the "Author" and "Description" fields.
  • Assessment released to: If you check these boxes, you will be able to determine who can take an assessment that's based on this Assessment Type.
  • High Security: Check these boxes to make it possible to set optional security restrictions on assessments. If you leave these boxes unchecked, the "High Security" settings will be unavailable in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Timed Assessment: If you check these boxes, you will have the option to make the assessment timed and to auto-submit answers if time runs out. If you leave these boxes unchecked, the "Timed Assessment" settings will be unavailable in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Assessment Organization: These settings control the flow of the assessment as students take it. Use the radio buttons to choose the default values for these settings; use the checkboxes to allow changes. If you leave the checkboxes empty, then the default values will always take effect in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Submissions: These settings control how many times students can take the assessment, and whether or not they can take the assessment after the due date. Use the radio buttons to choose the default values for these settings; use the checkboxes to allow changes. If you leave the checkboxes empty, then the default values will always take effect in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Submission Message: The Submission Message and Final Page URL appear on the last page of the assessment, after the student has clicked Submit for Grading. Check these boxes to allow the insertion of custom messages and URLs here. If you leave the checkboxes empty, these options will be unavailable in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Feedback: Under "Feedback Delivery", you can choose if or when students will see feedback. Under "Select the Feedback Components", you can choose what kinds of feedback they'll see. You can also choose whether or not you'll be able to change these settings.
  • Grading: The grading options control the following:
    • Whether graders can see student names or grading is anonymous
    • Whether or not assessment scores are sent to the Gradebook tool
    • How scores for multiple submissions are handled

    Use the radio buttons to choose the default value for these settings; use the checkboxes to determine whether or not you can change them. If you leave the checkboxes empty, then the default values will always take effect in assessments created with this Assessment Type.

  • Graphics: Check these boxes to allow changes to the assessment's background color or background image. If you leave these boxes unchecked, the "Graphics" options will be unavailable in assessments created with this Assessment Type.
  • Metadata: The "Metadata" settings are text fields for recording useful information about an assessment, a part, or a question. The three metadata fields available are "Objective", "Keyword", and "Rubric". If you leave these boxes unchecked, metadata can't be recorded in assessments created with this Assessment Type.

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