Assessments, Assignments, and Activities—Overview

 

Category Types & Descriptions Question Counts Gradebook & Scoring

Formative Activities

Default: Learn by Doing

On-page Practice Questions

name, color, & icon can be customized 

10 questions/data points per learning objective to build a learning estimate—see Question Data Points

Gradebook (optional) as Practice Completed

% Complete: The percent reflects formative practice activities for which all questions are fully answered in the module. 

  • A practice activity is considered complete when a student has answered all available questions in the activity and checked their answers.
  • An incomplete question means the entire activity is incomplete.

Not included in LMS gradebook sync

Summative Assessments

Defaults: Test & Quiz
name & icon can be customized

Summative assessment features include:

  • multiple settings for attempts and scheduling
  • utilization of question pools
    customizable naming conventions

2-4 questions per learning objective in each module

 

Gradebook

Scored: Calculated by dividing the total points available by the number of items a student answered correctly. Depending on your course setup, Summative assessment scores in the gradebook may represent one of the following

  • 1st attempt (the score of the student's 1st attempt)
  • Last attempt (the score of the student's last attempt)
  • Maximum (the student's best score of all attempts)
  • Average (the mean of all student's attempts)

Included in LMS gradebook sync

Adaptive Activities

 

Personal Practice

*Formative Activities meeting the 10 data point per LO requirement are prerequisite for Personal Practice

1-4 core per learning objective

1-2 mid-level

1-2 low level

Gradebook

Completion: completion activities are scored based on percent complete.

Included in LMS gradebook sync.

 

Getting Ready

*Getting Ready modules are only available on legacy 4x courses. Contact Customer Success for additional information.

7-10 questions per prerequisite learning objective

 

Not graded; remedial content assigned based on student performance

Before You Continue

Learner self-evaluation against learning objectives used to determine over or under confidence in learning.

NA

Gradebook

Answered: shows as answered or not (no score).

Not included in LMS gradebook sync.

Hand-in Assignments

Hand-in assignments allow students to electronically hand in an assignment to an instructor for grading via Rubric.

Project-based activity

Gradebook

Scored: scored manually based on a rubric provided in the course

Included in LMS gradebook sync.

 

 

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