Monitor
Last updated
Last updated
Monitoring Assessment allows teachers to view in the progress of the students in the exam using a dashboard.
In this view, you can track the completion of all the students in real time as they progress through the exam.
It's split in three categories:
Not started, Students that are part of the lesson but have not yet started the assessment.
In progress,
Students that are in the middle of the assessment
Completed The number of students that have now completed the exam.
Exam Completion and managing exam time Knowing how many students have completed can help you set up a time limit for the exam to speed things up and avoid students that have already completed not getting distracted.
The Students Progress chart, aggregates the number of questions answered by the students. This chart will tell you how many questions students have answered as they are progressing through the exam.
This is a bar chart so you will see how the bars "move" as the students advanced question by question, from the right to the left.
On the x-axis, are the number of answered questions. On the y-axis, it's the number of students. So as an example, let's assume that our exam has 10 questions. So when a student has answer 5 questions, it will show him/her in the 5th position on the x-axis. As he/she continues answer other questions, then we can see the progress until he/she completed all the exam questions.
Both of these charts (student progress and completion) are progressive, meaning that they are updated continuously as the students are advancing in the test.
As students submit their answers on the exam, the Students' Choices table will display the students' answer distribution.
The rows represent each answer (in order of display) and the columns the available answers. Each cell shows the percentage distribution for the given answer choice.
If the cell is green, it means that this option/choice is the correct answer.
For example, in the table above, we can see that for question #2, 92.59% of the students chose answer "C". And if this case, they were correct.
However, less than 2% of the students chose the correct answer from Question #9.
This table is very useful to identify potential knowledge gaps and can prepare you for the discussions ahead.
If you want to see the full text for each question, click on the question number and an overlay with all the details of the question will be displayed.
Sometimes we need to get specifics on a team or a students, for this you can use the Summary tab and dig down in each student.
You can also see the report by question rather than student. Just select the question you want to see the report by and get the full details.
At time, you might want to do your own research analysis using tools like R or SPSS. For this you can export all data from the exam to an Excel file that then you can manipulated and use as it better suits your needs.
The Excel file will contain a breakdown of the data by group, students and provide all timestamps for each answer or attempt.
The advanced settings section shows the options that were enabled or disabled when creating the activity in author (see Advanced settings).
The assessment tool allows you to apply very flexible time limits and restrictions. Three ways to set on-exam time restrictions:
When you set up a this time limit, then each individual student get a pre-determined number of minutes to complete the exam from the moment they start the exam (say 10 minutes). The time starts to countdown from the moment that the student begins the exam, so in our example, everyone gets 10 minutes regardless which date they start. You can set this up when authoring the exam or in Monitor as follows:
This option is ideal if you are planning to run the exam asynchronously.
When you are running a synchronous exam -when all the students are doing the exam at the same time -whether this is online or face-to-face in the classroom, you might want to set a hard deadline for it (ie: ‘Let’s get everyone to finish the assessment in 2 minutes’).
Unlike the relative time limit before, now you are able to set a hard deadline in minutes.
🤔Tip: To better know how much time left the student might need, you can take a look at the students’ progression in the assessment. If about half of the students have already completed the assessment, you might want to add just two more minutes for the rest to complete it.
Once the time expires, all student responses will be saved up until the point when the time expires and the assessment will automatically be completed.
However, sometimes a student might have arrived late, so you might need to grant exceptions…
In these cases, you can grant a particular student or team (in the case the assessment is to be performed as a team).
These extensions are additions to the previous two time limits.
For instance if you are have given all students 10 minutes from their relative start of the exam, you can grant a single student (or group) an extra 10 minutes (adding a total of 20 minutes) to finish the exam.
If you have set up a hard time limit, then you can grant a student an extra number of minutes for him/her to complete the exam.
These time extensions provide a very powerful tool to manage time limits for students with special needs that might require extra time to complete an assessment.
More info on LAMS' time management for assessments.
