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Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.
An Assessment Type is a pre-selected set of assessment settings that can make it simpler for you to create assessments. Assessment Types are automatically shared throughout all of your course and project sites.
When you create or edit an Assessment Type, you determine what changes to settings you can make when you use the Assessment Type to create assessments. See Creating a new assessment for instructions on using an Assessment Type in assessment creation. For more information on assessment settings, see Assessment settings.
Back to topNote: You should not use the feedback option in Tests & Quizzes when assessing learning, as it may provide information students can use to correct their answers before submitting a test.
To create an Assessment Type, follow these steps:
Tests &
Quizzes
.
Assessment Types
.
Create
.
Save
. You will
see your Assessment Type listed under "Saved Assessment Types".
To edit an Assessment Type, from the Assessment Types screen, under "Saved
Assessment Types", click the name of the Assessment Type. For information on
settings and options, see the Assessment Type
settings section below. When you're finished, click
Save
.
To delete an Assessment Type, from the Assessment Types screen, under "Saved
Assessment Types", click the Remove
link beneath the Assessment Type to be
removed. Click Remove
again to confirm.
When you create or edit an Assessment Type, you determine what changes to settings you can make when you create assessments based on the Assessment Type. The following settings and options are available:
Can be viewed?
checkbox.
Submit for Grading
. Check these boxes to
allow the insertion of custom messages and URLs here. If
you leave the checkboxes empty, these options will be unavailable in
assessments created with this Assessment Type.Use the radio buttons to choose the default value for these settings; use the checkboxes to determine whether or not you can change them. If you leave the checkboxes empty, then the default values will always take effect in assessments created with this Assessment Type.