Pertaining to online exams administered via learning module test modes
- Quest logged student out due to “inactivity”, while student was working on scratch paper.
Investigating; UTLogin has a timer that does log students out during 10 minutes of inactivity. We're ferreting to see if this can be extended to 30 minutes, especially for tests. Until this is resolved, the recommendation is to have some assignment movement, even if forward/backwards to the same slide within 10 minutes of latency.
- It would be great if in a future version, that students could change the answers after entering them (or at least put in preliminary answers that are saved and then submit everything at the end).
- Along these lines--having buttons reading something like: "[Back] [Save and Continue] [Save] [Continue without saving]" could help mitigate issues from students not reading directions
- Make countdown timer visible to students.
- Improve finishing endtag. At the end, it says something to the effect that "Your answers are submitted." Maybe we should add "You may close the browser window and log out of quest".
- How can my students see their grades?
Right now, it's a bit buried on student view–grades, online tests (or learning module, whichever is most relevant), in the section. However, by taking the assignment out of test mode students can see their grades on their initial page within a class.
- What about solutions? Are they posted? Not?
The default behavior for test mode is to not release solutions. Right now there is a bug and solutions aren't displaying at all; we're working on it and hope to have a fix out in ~ the next week (ie ~4/15).
Student facing
- Are units needed on numeric free response?
No, if entering in anything but numbers it will be counted incorrect (even if correct)
- Can students review and change their submissions after clicking 'submit answer', like they can on a bubblesheet?
No, once students have clicked the blue 'submit answer' button and gotten confirmation 'your answer has been received' it is immutable.
- Can I wait and submit all my answers at the end?
That approach is really not recommended, although yes, it is possible. The timer cutoff is not well signposted and one could easily lose points from not entering answers in that you are all prepared to. Quest staff is usually available at the start of exams for monitoring and troubleshooting as well, as we have a vested interest in ensuring all goes smoothly.