Test
The test course element allows for knowledge quizzes with different answer formats. The results are displayed to the author in the assessment tool and can be downloaded through the data archiving process.
The learning platform supports the ONYX test format. The ONYX Testsuite enables a convenient test creation and comes with a large range of functions.
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Usage: Learners' View
Overview
In the test course element, you can start and run a test configured by the course author. Afterwards, you can view your assessment and retry the test depending on the course author's settings. |
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Functions for users
Start and finish test | In the test course element, you can answer test questions of different formats. Start a test attempt as follows:
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Start test.
1 | The test is opened and started immediately unless any publishing restrictions prevent it. Now you can start answering the questions. To advance to the next question, click on Forward. Depending on the author's configuration, you can also select questions from the navigation pane. | Desktop view
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2 | To close the test, click on Finish test. |
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View assessment
Depending on the configuration of the course element, you can see assessment information on the test home page in the course after finishing the test. If the Show evaluation button (or in the case of an exam, the Exam summary button) is displayed, you can open one or all of your attempts and view all associated assessment data.
Depending on the course author's settings, the following assessment information is available:
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Configuration: Authors' View
In the course editor
The following functions are available to you in the course editor:
Add a test course element
Click to open instructions on how to add a course element ...
To integrate a course element into your course, proceed as follows:
1 | Open the course you want to edit. Use the pencil icon at the top of the page to open the editing mode. |
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2 | Select a course element from the menu on the right. |
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3 | In the new window, you can define the position of the new course element within your course structure (left navigation pane). The available positions are marked with an insert icon. To insert the new course element into an existing substructure, you need to open the substructure by clicking on the small triangle symbol next to its title. The area will open and you will again see insert icons at the positions which are available. Click on the insert icon at the desired position within the structure. The selected area will be highlighted. Confirm your choice with Insert course element. |
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4 | The element will be inserted into the course structure at the selected position. Depending on the course element, you have to make additional configurations or add content in order to complete the configuration. For these changes to take effect, you must publish the course. The course element will then also become available in the course view. |
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Perform general configuration settings
In the course editor, you can see the following configuration tabs for this course element type:
Title and description |
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Title | You need to enter a title for the course element. The title can comprise a maximum of 100 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear in the navigation menu of the course and also as a heading in the content area. |
Subtitle | You can enter a subtitle for the course element with a maximum of 255 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear as a tooltip in the navigation menu and - if selected and configured accordingly - as a subtitle in the content area. |
Description | Here you can describe the course element. The description will appear in the content area below the title.
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Display | Define which information about the course element should be displayed in the course view. In addition to the content, you can optionally display the title and description. All course elements are provided with a reasonable presetting, which mostly includes the setting Title, description and content. You can adjust this setting in accordance with the options available for each course element. |
Set link for this course element | Each course element can be accessed via fixed link addresses. Therefore, an internal and an external URL is assigned to each course element. These direct links to concrete elements can be used within courses or provided to learners. The URLs are located below the title and description of the element and will appear upon selecting Set link for this course element.
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ID | You will need the ID number of the course element (on the bottom right), for example, if you wish to use the expert mode in the visibility or access tab. |
Visibility
Restrict here the course element's visibility if necessary. See the Visibility help page for more information.
Access
Restrict here the course element's access if necessary. See the Access help page for more information.
Test configuration
In this tab, you can store a test resource and specify settings for the test procedure. Detailed instructions are given on the Test-Konfiguration help page.
Assessment
Here you can configure various settings for the test assessment. All options are explained in detail under Course elements>Test>Assessment configuration.
Multilingualism
Different translations can be added to individual course element areas on this tab.
Publish your course to complete the configuration and make the resource available to learners.
In the new mobile responsive user interface, internal tests and surveys are no longer supported. However, you can easily convert existing test content in the internal format to ONYX and thus continue to use it.
Convert existing test resources to ONYX ...
Convert to ONYX
Existing internal tests can easily be converted to the ONYX format.
- Open the detailed view of the test you wish to convert in the course editor.
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function in the menu on the right. - A copy of the test content is created in ONYX format.
- Enter a title and description for the new (converted) test content.
Now you can replace the existing internal test with the new (converted) test content in ONYX format within a course as follows:
- Open the corresponding course and then the course editor.
- Select the relevant course element of the type test or self-test and switch to the Test configuration tab.
- Select the Replace file option to exchange the current internal test for the new (converted) test content in ONYX format.
In the course view
Author functions in the course view
The course view gives you access to all functions available to users for this course element, plus the following additional editing options:
If you activate the test in the exam mode with the exam control, you will see the exam control area below the test, which allows you to monitor and coordinate the course participants' test progress. For more information, see the Exam mode help page. | |
A cancelled test attempt can be continued under certain conditions based on the stored intermediate results. The Continue a cancelled test attempt help page describes the general conditions and procedure. |