Assessments and assignments
Turnitin
Overview Turnitin is a cloud-based service that provides originality checking, online grading, and peer reviews which saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to learners. Turnitin helps instructors check learners' work for improper citation ...
Debate
Overview A debate assessment is a group-based activity where instructors present a proposition for learners to debate. Learners can contribute arguments supporting or opposing the proposition and cast their vote. In a debate assessment, learners can ...
Discussion assessment
Overview A discussion assessment is a group activity where learners can earn points by joining a discussion thread started by the instructor. At the end of the assessment, the instructor grades each learner based on their postings and replies. Adding ...
Dropbox assessment
Overview A Dropbox assessment is an assessment type that requires learners to upload one or more files as their assessment submission. This article will cover: Adding a Dropbox assessment. The learner submission process. Scoring a Dropbox assessment. ...
Essay
Overview An essay assessment is an assessment type that requires learners to submit their response in essay form. Learners use the built-in HTML editor to submit their essay and can include unlimited attachments—such as images, PowerPoint ...
Google assignment
Overview Google Assignments is an add-on application that integrates with Google Workspace for Education to help educators distribute, analyze, and grade student work. The Google Assignments feature requires schools to be using Google for Education ...
LTI assessments
Overview LTI stands for Learning Tool Interoperability, an initiative managed by 1EdTech to seamlessly integrate learning applications and courses. It includes a standard protocol for establishing a trusted relationship between the tool provider and ...
Offline assignment
Overview An Offline assessment allows you to track any type of assessment that is taken offline, such as a paper-based test. There is no online submission for this kind of assessment, and the instructor enters scores or grades for each learner based ...
Question banks
Overview A question bank is a set of questions that can be used by quizzes. Question banks can be stored as a resource and used by multiple quizzes in separate courses.. To view the question banks stored in your resource libraries: Click Resources ...
Quiz
Overview A quiz is a type of assessment made up of a series of questions designed to evaluate a learner’s understanding of specific concepts or topics. Quizzes are usually short and can include a variety of question types, such as multiple choice or ...
Safe Exam Browser
Overview The platform's integration with Safe Exam Browser (SEB) allows you to create a web browser environment to carry out online quizzes safely. SEB temporarily turns any computer into a secure workstation. It controls access to resources like ...
Survey
Overview A survey assessment is a great way to get feedback from your learners. You can add surveys to courses and classes, track learner survey submissions, and assign points to surveys - helping to incentivize learner participation. Please note the ...
Team assessment
Overview A team assessment is an assessment type that allows groups of learners to work together on joint submissions. The instructor organizes learners into teams, each of which gets their own private group. Each team uses their group for ...
Assessment and assignment types
An assessment or assignment is a task that a user has to complete by a specified time in order to earn points. These points count towards a final grade based on the selected weighting scheme. If required, an assessment or assignment can be associated ...
Assessments and assignments
Overview An assessment or assignment is a tool used to evaluate a learner's understanding, skills, or progress related to the course content. It can take various forms—such as quizzes, essays, or discussions—and is typically designed to measure how ...
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