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Assessments: Advanced Assessments
This section explores creating and grading assessments in detail.
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116 articles in this collection
Written by
Keith Westman,
Samantha Mason,
Kris Hyland
and 4 others
Featured
Beginners Guide to Advanced Assessments
This is the first stop on your journey to understanding and creating Advanced Assessments in Otus.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated this week
Advanced Assessment: Items, Questions, and Features
This article will explain the difference between items, questions, and features and how they are used in our Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Question Guide
This article categorizes the questions available on advanced assessments in various ways to help you get started.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Grading an Advanced Assessment
This article will go over the process of grading an Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated this week
General
Assign an Advanced Assessment
This article will show you how to assign an Advanced Assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated this week
Advanced Assessments: Options for Showing Work
There are ways for students to show or submit work on Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Using Text to Speech (Texthelp) in Otus
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Image, Video, and Audio Requirements
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Using Images
How to make use of images when building questions in advanced assessments.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Using Video
How to make use of videos when building advanced assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Using Audio
Easily add audio to items in your advanced assessment
Written by
Samantha Mason
Updated over a week ago
Learnosity Terms and Definitions
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Showing Work Using a Formatted Work Page
Students can show their work on a work page designed for the specific assessment. This is best for assessments taken in the classroom.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Student Annotations
Tools including a notepad, sticky notes, highlight tool, and drawing tool are available for students taking an advanced assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Math and Chemistry Keypads
There are several options for keypads students can use while answering math or chemistry questions on Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Embed a Google Form
This article will give you the step-by-step process for embedding a Google Form into an Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
iFrame Embedding in Advanced Assessments
Embed many types of web-based resources into Advanced Assessments
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Creation
Create an Advanced Assessment
Learn how to create an item-based assessment using prebuilt items in an available itembank or creating your own items.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Create an Item
Learn how to create Items and Questions in an Advanced Assessment
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated this week
Advanced Assessment: Item Layouts
Create different layouts using a variety of our items templates.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Questions By Subject Area
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Questions By Level of Difficulty
This article categorizes the questions in advanced assessments into levels of difficulty when creating (basic, intermediate, advanced).
Written by
Samantha Mason
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Questions By Category
There are a variety of question types for teachers to choose from when designing an advanced assessment.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: ELA Assessments
This article will outline helpful information and tips for creating English Language Arts assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Math Assessments
This article will outline helpful information and tips for creating math assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Science Assessments
This article will outline helpful information and tips for creating science Advanced Assessments in Otus.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Social Studies (History) Assessments
This article will outline helpful information and tips for creating Social Studies assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Specials, Enrichment, or Elective Class Assessments
This article has information on creating assessments for subjects that are sometimes called specials, enrichment, or elective classes.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Questions: Basic Level
Advanced assessment questions that have simple formatting and scoring options; creation difficulty level of basic.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Questions: Intermediate Level
Advanced assessment questions that have more intricate formatting and scoring options; creation difficulty level of intermediate.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Questions: Advanced Level
Advanced assessment questions that have complex formatting and scoring options; creation difficulty level of advanced.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Create a Survey
Create a survey using an Advanced Assessment.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Check Answer Option
This article will show teachers how to give students the ability to check their answers on questions within an Advanced Assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Link, View, or Remove Standards
This article will show you how to add standards, edit standards, or remove standards on an Advanced assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Editing Questions and Items
This article will show you how to edit a question or an item on your Advanced Assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment | Edit Point Value
Learn how to adjust the point value for the questions within your advanced assessment.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: How to Duplicate an Item
This article goes over duplicating an item both while building an assessment and from "My Item Bank".
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Remove or Delete an Item
How to remove an item from your Advanced Assessment.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments - Dynamic Content
This article will show you how to use Dynamic Content in your Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
How to Print an Advanced Assessment or Answer Key
This article will go over how to print an advanced assessment and answer key
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Scoring
Advanced Assessments: Auto Score Settings for Standards-Based Advanced Assessments
Set the default score a student receives for auto-graded questions. Standards Based Grading Scale (Non-Points) Only.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated this week
Leaving Comments on Advanced Assessments
You can leave comments on an Advanced Assessment for students to see.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Question Validation & Scoring Information
This will give you an overview of the common validation components and scoring information (including auto scoring) for Advanced Assessments
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated this week
Set Correct Answers / Partial Credit - Advanced Assessments
This article will show you how to set answers to award partial credit for questions in Advanced Assessments
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Penalty Scoring
This article will illustrate how to apply penalty points when incorrect answers are selected.
Written by
Kristin Town
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Multiple Choice
Advanced Assessments: Multiple Choice Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of multiple choice questions
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Basic Multiple Choice
The Multiple Choice Question allows you to select one or more correct answer(s) from a number of potential answers.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Choice Matrix
The Choice Matrix requires students to evaluate one or more row items using a set of column options.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Fill in the Blank and Labeling
Advanced Assessments: Fill in the Blanks and Labeling Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of fill in the blank and labeling questions.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze with Drag and Drop
In the Cloze with Drag & Drop question, students drag their responses from a list of options set by the author into empty response boxes.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze with Drop Down
The Cloze with drop down question type allows students to select the correct answer from a response drop down menu within text or passages.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze with Text
Fill in the blanks - Enter inline text into fields within a passage
Written by
Ethan Kelly
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Label Image with Drag and Drop
Students can select from a list of potential answers and drag them to the correct response box on the image.
Written by
Ethan Kelly
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Label Image with Drop Down
Students select their response from a response box drop down menu located somewhere on an image.
Written by
Ethan Kelly
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Label Image with Text
Enter text into fields positioned on an image
Written by
Ethan Kelly
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Classify, Match, & Order
Advanced Assessments: Classify, Match, & Order Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of fill in the classifying, matching, and ordering questions
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Classification
Drag and drop text or images into categories
Written by
Ethan Kelly
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Match List
The Match List question type requires students to pair associated items, using one static list and one dynamic list.
Written by
Keith Westman
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Order List
Students organize a list of responses into a specified order.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Sort List
Allows students to arrange items into their correct order by dragging the items from the Source area to the Target area
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Written & Recorded
Advanced Assessment Question: Video Recorder
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Written and Recorded Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of written and recorded question types
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Essay With Rich Text
Allows students to submit an essay response to a question (up to 10,000 words) with detailed formatting options.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Essay With Plain Text
Students can answer in the form of an essay with basic formatting options, such as Copy, Cut, and Paste.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Short Text
The Short Text question requires students to respond to questions which have short, definite answers, e.g. 1-2 words, or a number.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Audio Recorder
Allows teacher to add audio recorders into a question. The audio recorder can record, save and playback a student's response.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Highlight & Drawing
Advanced Assessments: Highlight and Drawing Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of highlight and drawing questions
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Drawing
Drawing question allows students to answer using different drawing tools such as a compass, straightedge (ruler) etc. on a provided image.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Highlight Image
The Highlight Image question allows the student to input a response in the form of a freehand drawing on an image uploaded by the author.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Shading
Provides a visual representation of functions and calculations, including fractions and ratios.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Token Highlight
The Token Highlight question requires students to highlight certain words, sentences, or paragraphs by clicking on the text.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Hotspot
Teacher's can upload an image and outline regions (hotspots) within the image for students to select.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Showing Work Using Drawing
The Drawing question provides work space directly within the item. It includes a line tool, protractor, and free-hand writing or drawing.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Showing Work Using Highlight Image
The highlight image question provides work space directly within the item for free-hand writing or drawing.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Math
Advanced Assessments: Math Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of math questions
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment: Math Question Generator
How to create a Math Question Generator item in your Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Math Formula
Allows students to easily enter complex math as a response that may include multiple response boxes, text, units, fractions, or matrices.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Math Essay
Allows students to input text and math formula within the same response, usually when a response needs further explanation
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze Math
In this question type, the student enters a math response into one or more response boxes.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze Math with Image
Allows students to easily enter complex math formula as a response on an image.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Item Question Type: Desmos Advanced Math Questions
Question types for Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Statistics, Economics, Calculus and more.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Showing Work Using Math Essay
The Math Essay question gives students a space to type out their work using a wide variety of math symbols and operations.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Graphing
Advanced Assessments: Graphing Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of graphing questions
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Item Question Type: Number Line Drag and Drop
Allows students to drag points or images onto a number line.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Graphing / Graphing in the 1st Quadrant
Allows students to plot points, lines, and shapes on a coordinate grid.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Number Line With Plot
Allows students to plot points on a number line, or stack points above a number line.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Charts
Advanced Assessments: Chart Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of questions involving charts.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Histogram
Allows students to create or modify histograms
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Bar Chart
Allows students to create or modify bar charts
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Line Chart
Allows students to create or modify line charts
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Dot Plot and Line Plot
Allows students to create or modify dot plots or line plots
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Question Category: Chemistry
Advanced Assessment: Chemistry Questions
This article will provide an overview of the different types of questions involving chemistry.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze Chemistry
Allows students to enter chemical formulas into empty response boxes, which may form part of an equation, or appear in the middle of text.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Chemistry Formula
Allows students to input full or partial chemical formulas into empty response boxes.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Chemistry Essay
Allows students to input both text and chemical formula, within the same response.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Cloze Chemistry with Image
Students can input complex chemistry formulas on an image, using response boxes.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Other Question Types
Advanced Assessment Question Category: Other
This article will provide an overview of the question types that are considered "other".
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Rating
The Rating question is useful for obtaining student feedback, or as a rubric for use by the teacher when providing feedback to the student
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Image Annotation Upload
This question type allows students to upload and annotate an image.
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: File Upload
The File Upload question type allows students to upload a file for review by the teacher.
Written by
Kris Hyland
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Question: Gridded
Allows for students to enter numerical responses with a gridded layout
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Showing Work by Uploading an Image
Students can submit an image of their work page.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Item Banks
Advanced Assessments: Find Questions Associated with a Navigate Item Passage
Learn how to search for items that include the same passage.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments: Navigate Item Bank
Learn how to search for and add Navigate Items to your Advanced Assessments
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessments Item Banks
How to create, view, edit, or delete items within your Item Bank
Written by
Brooke Fodor
Updated over a week ago
Features
Overview: Advanced Assessment Item Features
These are the available features, or "extras," provided by Learnosity that you can include in your Advanced Assessments.
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated this week
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Ruler
How to insert a ruler into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Protractor
How to insert a protractor into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Imagetool
How to insert an interactive image into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Scientific Calculator
How to insert a scientific calculator into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Calculator
How to insert a calculator into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Desmos Calculators
How to insert a Desmos calculator into your Advanced Assistance
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Audio Player
How to insert the Audio Player feature into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Passage
How to insert a passage into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Video Player
How to insert a video player into your Advanced Assessment
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago
Advanced Assessment Item Feature: Line Reader
How to insert the Line Reader feature into your Advanced Assessments
Written by
Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago