LibGuides: CougarVIEW Guides: Self-assessments

Overview

Overview of Creating a Self Assessment: Self Assessments is a self assessment tool that provide learners with a series of questions and give immediate feedback to their responses. This page shows the steps to create a self assessment in your course.

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Overview of Evaluating a Self Assessment: You can provide the feedback for the self assessments. It suggests the approaches for these assessments.

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Overview of Best Practices of creating and using a Self Assessment: The CougarVIEW recommendations for using the self assessment in a given course are shown in this page. It helps you to reuse the same set of questions in different locations.

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Self-Assessments

Self Assessments is a formative assessment tool that enables you to provide learners with a series of questions and give immediate feedback to their responses. The omission of numeric evaluation enables learners to make reflective learning and course material comprehension their main priorities during a self assessment.

You can use self assessments as a way of enabling learners to provide feedback on how well they think they are doing with course material. Answering self assessment questions can illuminate learners to their own skills and development.

On the navbar, click Self Assessments.
On the Manage Self Assessments page, click New Self Assessment.
In the General area, enter your self assessment details.
Click Save.
Click Add/Edit Questions.
Do any of the following:

To create a new question, from the New button, select the type of question you want to add. Enter the question details and click Save.
To add questions from another collection, a text file, or a learning repository, click Import. Enter your importing details and click Save.

Repeat the previous step until you have added all your quiz questions.
Click Done Editing Questions > Save and Close.

On the navbar, click Self Assessments.
On the Manage Self Assessments page, select the check box for any self assessment you want to delete.
From the More Actions button, click Delete.

Since self assessments are not graded and have no point value, CourgarVIEW recommends that you provide feedback comments for each self assessment question. You can provide feedback at the end of every question. In some question types (like multiple choice), you can also provide feedback for each answer choice within the question, including what details instructors are looking for in an ideal answer.

All question types allow you to include feedback and hints. Use feedback to provide added information as a basis for improving content comprehension. Use hints to suggest how to approach a question. If you want users to see hints to questions, you must enable hints when you create the self assessment.

CourgarVIEW recommends that you create all self assessment questions within Question Library. This enables you to reuse questions in various quizzes, surveys, and self assessments. All point values are removed when importing questions from Question Library to self assessments.
To allow users to see hints to questions, select the Allow hints check box when creating a self assessment.
Create self assessment sections to organize your questions into folders. Avoid creating subsections within sections to keep question organization simple and intuitive.
You can also create categories to organize your assessments based on similar or related content.
Create random sections in self assessments to distribute a unique set of questions to individual users. Random sections pull questions from a designated pool of questions stored in Question Library.
Use the integrated HTML Editor to insert a self assessment into a Content topic, Announcements item, or event via a quicklink if you want to include other information with the self assessment.