ARCHIVED: In Oncourse, when importing tests in bulk from Original Test and Survey into Tests & Surveys, how will the tests appear?
When you import tests exported in bulk from the Original Test and Survey tool into Tests & Surveys, some properties of the resulting assessments will be different from the original version. See the table below for the most important differences. Check the settings and questions of your tests carefully to make sure tests appear as you intended. If you need help, contact your campus teaching and learning center.
For instructions for importing tests, see ARCHIVED: Exporting assessments. For detailed migration help, see the Tests & Surveys Migration Guide (PDF). To learn how to use the Tests & Surveys tool, see ARCHIVED: Tests & Surveys.
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Settings
When imported into Tests & Surveys, all assessments will be unpublished by default. See ARCHIVED: Publishing an assessment.
Original Test and Survey field |
Tests & Surveys field | Notes |
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General Settings | ||
Time Limit | Timed Assessment with Time Limit |
Original Test and
Survey displays the time in minutes; Tests & Surveys displays it
in hours and minutes.
|
Tries per user | Number of submissions allowed | Zero tries per user in Original Test and Survey is the equivalent of
unlimited submissions in Tests & Surveys.
|
Auto-submit when time limit expires |
N/A | Tests & Surveys
automatically submits all in-progress assessments when the time limit
expires.
|
Scramble Test Questions | Random within Part (applies to parts
only, not to entire tests) - migration not working properly
|
If your test is set to scramble test questions, the resulting test
upon import into Tests & Surveys will set question order to
"Questions authored one-by-one", i.e., to show all questions in the
order they appear in the test. You can manually create one or more
question pools from your existing questions and set the part to
randomly draw a certain number from a question pool. See ARCHIVED: Adding, editing, moving, copying, or
removing a question pool or subpool.
Additionally, the import may cause the part name "DEFAULT" to display to students. You can keep it from displaying to students by editing it to "Default". |
Allow others to Copy Questions |
N/A | No direct equivalent in
Tests & Surveys; for similar functionality, see ARCHIVED: Sharing question pools.
|
Feedback Settings | ||
The Question Text | N/A | No equivalent functionality in Tests
and Surveys
|
The Default and Custom Comments |
Selection-Level Feedback | |
WWW Page Settings (e.g., HTML Head,
BODY Tag Attributes, Page Header and Footer, customized button texts)
|
N/A | No equivalent functionality in Tests &
Surveys
|
Access Control Settings | ||
Disable Student Access to Test |
N/A | In Tests & Surveys,
this is accomplished by publishing or retracting an assessment; see ARCHIVED: Publishing an assessment and ARCHIVED: Retracting or removing an
assessment.
|
Disable Student Access to Test Results |
No feedback will be
displayed to the student (Settings: Feedback) - migration not
working properly |
The feedback settings of your test upon
import will most likely be controlled by the feedback settings within
Original Test and Survey rather than the access control settings.
Check the feedback settings before publishing your assessment in Tests
& Surveys. Choosing prevents students from seeing their scores.
|
Deny Student Access After | Due Date | |
Password/Confirm | N/A | Original Test and Survey requires only a
password, while Tests & Surveys requires both username and
password. To use the similar functionality in Tests & Surveys,
manually set the High Security settings.
|
Do not allow listed IP addresses |
N/A | No equivalent
functionality in Tests & Surveys; for IP address security, use
the option to allow only specified IP addresses (in the High Security
settings)
|
Restrict to these groups | N/A | Since the same groups may not exist
in the new site, the migration tool will not assign this setting automatically.
If you want to restrict your imported test to one or more groups, you will
need to set this option manually.
|
Questions
Original Test and Survey field |
Tests & Surveys field | Notes |
---|---|---|
Inline Text | Information (applies to a part of a test) |
The
system will create a part for each Inline Text item, with "Inline
Text" as the title and the Inline Text as the Information for that
part. The questions that follow (until the next Inline Text item or
section break) will be added to that part.
|
Section Break | Part | |
Section Heading Text | Title | The system will also create a part for each
section break, but you can distinguish them from parts created from inline
text based on the title.
|
Comments | Information | |
Show all questions in this section |
Questions authored one-by-one | |
Show X random questions from this section |
N/A; equivalent setting
is random draw from question pool, but the migration utility will not
set this automatically
|
If your test contains section breaks set to "Show X random
questions from this section", the parts corresponding to those section
breaks will be set to show all questions in the order they appear
within the test. You can manually create one or more question pools
from your existing questions and set the part to randomly draw a
certain number from a question pool. For instructions, see ARCHIVED: Re-establishing random-draw question
delivery for tests migrated from Original Test and Survey to Tests &
Surveys.
|
Multiple Choice | Multiple Choice (Single Correct) |
Tests & Surveys uses one question
type for multiple choice questions, with the single vs. multiple
correct option set below the question text.
|
Multiple Correct Answer | Multiple Choice (Multiple Correct,
Multiple Selection)
|
|
Points | Answer Point Value | In Original Test and Survey, you
enter the point value per correct answer; Tests & Surveys
uses one point value for the question. The system will multiply the
points per correct answer by the number of correct answers to create
the answer point value for Tests & Surveys.
|
Fill-in-the-Blank | Fill in the Blank | |
Allowed Answers | Question Text | In Tests & Surveys,
you indicate allowed answers within the question text, surrounded by
curly braces. Upon import, your allowed answers from Original Test
and Survey will appear after the question text in curly braces. You
can edit the question to make sure the blank appears where you intend
it.
Note: If a question has multiple allowed answers in Original Test and Survey (e.g., both "Shakespeare" and "William Shakespeare" are considered correct answers), Tests & Surveys may consider both answers to be required. Review such questions to make sure they appear as intended. To indicate multiple allowed answers for a single blank, separate the alternate forms by a pipe ( | ), e.g., {Shakespeare|William Shakespeare} |
Short Answer or Essay | Short Answer/Essay | Tests & Surveys
uses one question type for all free-form questions, regardless of
length.
|
Answer | Model Short Answer | |
Matching | Matching | Some matching questions may be reported
as incompatible during export. In particular, matching questions where
terms and definitions do not have one-to-one matches may generate errors.
|
Directions | Question Text | |
Definitions | Choice | |
Terms | Match | |
Survey: Text Box Field and Survey: Text Area Field
|
Short Answer/Essay | Tests & Surveys does not distinguish
between the test and survey versions of short answer/essay questions. In the
migration, all survey questions will have the Answer Point Value set to 0.
|
Field Title | Question Text | |
Survey Checkbox Field | Survey (Yes/No) | No equivalent
functionality in Tests & Surveys. Survey Checkbox Field
questions will be imported as Survey questions, with checkboxes
converted to radio buttons. You will not be able to edit the values
for these buttons; you may want to delete such questions and re-add
them manually as a different type of question.
|
Survey: Multiple Selection | Multiple Choice (Multiple Correct,
Multiple Selection)
|
Because this is a survey question, there is no correct
answer, but Tests & Surveys requires one, so all answers will
be marked correct. The Answer Point Value will be set to 0.
|
Survey: Single Selection | Multiple Choice (Multiple Correct,
Single Selection)
|
|
Survey: Rating (all types) | Survey | Pre-defined (custom)
ratings require no editing. User-defined ratings are imported with
errors. After migration, reproduce as Multiple Choice with multiple
correct and single selection options enabled.
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Miscellaneous Fields for Questions
|
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Skill | Keyword | If a value exists for Skill, Category, or Topic, the
system should enable the "Record metadata for Questions" setting in
Tests & Surveys (under Metadata). If there is more than one
value for the Keyword metadata field, the system will separate the
values with a comma.
Note: If the combined Skill, Category, and Topic fields exceed 255 total characters, the import will fail. |
Category | Keyword | |
Topic | Keyword | |
Points | Answer Point Value | |
Comments or Field Attributes | Feedback (optional) or Correct Answer/Incorrect Answer (optional)
|
If comments exist in Original
Test and Survey, the Feedback Settings for the test or survey will be set to
"Selection-Level (A,B,C...) Feedback". Each comment will be filled
into the appropriate field for the corresponding answer.
You must manually edit the test's Feedback Delivery settings to
determine when the students will see the feedback.
For Multiple Choice and Short Answer/Essay questions, comments will be filled into the "Feedback (optional)" field. For True-False and Fill-in-the-Blank questions, comments will be filled into both the "Correct Answer (optional)" and "Incorrect Answer (optional)" fields. |
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 16:40:25.