FullMarks Walk-Through Tutorial

FullMarks is a tool to support educators ....

by allowing them to work together to ...

by allowing them to work together to ... Quickly and easily.

Create an account. 1 Click on “Sign up now”

Create an account. 2 Complete form and submit

Create an account. 3 Click Log In

Welcome to FullMarks Your details Navigation Click on your name to change any of your details Use the 5 navigation tabs to move around the site

Access and share questions Quickly and easily.

Access and share questions ✔ Click on “Browse Questions” It is free and questions are openly licensed.

Access and share questions Click on the topic to see all the ✔ questions Click on the topic arrow to see ✔ all subtopics Browsing gives you a list of topics that questions can be associated with and you can select topics, or see subtopics, to see the list of associated questions Click on Find Questions in the ✔ subnavigation to do a more targeted search

Access and share questions Enter information about the questions you are looking for and click on submit ✔ For example, searching for the keyword “mathematics” returns a list of questions that have mathematics as a keyword

Access and share questions But ... You probably want to search by curriculum standards or topics FullMarks supports multiple parallel standards to cater for different organisations, curriculum standards etc. You have to choose which standards/topics you want to use ✔ You need to change your details so click on your name

Access and share questions Standards/Topics are question metadata so you need to specify which ✔ organisation's metadata you want to use and save A set of South African curriculum standards is maintained by the Shuttleworth Foundation organisational account on FullMarks so if you are a South African educator this is a good place to start You can change it later

Access and share questions ✔ Return to Questions ✔ Select Topics option added

Access and share questions ✔ ✔ Select Topics window lists topics/standards you can select to add to your search

Access and share questions ✔ A search for author “britz” returns a list of questions Selecting view on a question brings up the question detail

Access and share questions Each item in the bank has: ● Reference material if applicable ● Question ● Answer ● Topics/Curriculum Standards ● Keywords ● Mark allocation ● Time allocation These are the things that will make the items useful to you and allow us to analyse results

Access and share questions For a question you can: ● Communicate with the author ● Rate it – tell other people if it is a good question ● Verify the answer – sometimes even good questions have a mistake in the memo everybody makes mistakes so lets help each other by checking answers ● Use it in a test ● Make your own version (derive a copy) – sometimes you want to make a minor change to a question, change the context or the numbers ● Leave a comment – give everyone feedback about how you used this question Your feedback can trigger discussion amongst educators, improved sorting of questions, and better quality assurance – please provide feedback!

Access and share questions 1 2 3 You can contribute your own questions to the bank as well, click on the Questions navigation tab and then click on Contribute Questions in the subnavigation Choose Add Question

Access and share questions Just fill in the simple form for creating a question, you can enter Reference Material like a poem or extract from a resources, include the Question and the Marks allocation

Access and share questions Specify the question format, provide the answer, any keywords, the relevant topics and a learner response time. Click save and you have a draft question.

Access and share questions You have to Finalise a question before it will be available for others to see.

Create tests from questions Quickly and easily.

Create tests from questions 1 2 Find a question you would like to include in a test .... And click on Add to test Give your test a name and click on Submit

Create tests from questions 1 2 Then click on Tests to see your test list You can add another test, download the test or memo PDF files Click on the test title to see the test details

Create tests from questions Test details include all Topics covered by the included questions, total marks and total time allocation. Click on Add Questions to add more questions to your test

Create tests from questions ✔ ✔ ✔ Notice the test name at the top, you are specifically searching for questions to add to this test Just click on Add to test and the question will automatically be added

Create tests from questions ✔ ✔ The questions are added and the link changes to Remove from test – quick and easy! You can change the search criteria or click on the test name to go back to the test details

Create tests from questions ✔ ✔ Now you have made a test in a couple of painless minutes and you can download the question paper and memo.

Create tests from questions ✔ ✔ Please rate some questions and check some answers – it'll make Please rate some questions and check some answers – it'll make FullMarks better for everyone! FullMarks better for everyone!

Create class lists Quickly and easily.

Create class lists If you are creating tests then you probably want to use them for a class you teach FullMarks provides the functionality to create class lists so that you can capture marks and evaluate learner and class performance. ✔ ✔ Just click on the Class lists navigation tab and then Add Class List BTW – you can use Import Learners to import a CSV file from your favourite spreadsheet

Create class lists ✔ Give your class a name ....

Create class lists ✔ And add your learners/students/pupils!

Create scoresheets Quickly and easily.

Create scoresheets Actually capturing the results of a test requires a scoresheet for a particular class and test. You can use a test for multiple classes just make multiple scoresheets

Create scoresheets 1 2 Click on the Tests navigation tab and then on Marks in the subnavigation

Create scoresheets You don't have any scoresheets ✔ yet so all you see is the Add Scoresheet button – click on it And then choose the test and ✔ class(es) that need scoresheet(s)

Create scoresheets ✔ You now have a scoresheet, just select a learner to enter their marks

Create scoresheets Capture the learner's mark for each question and click Save Repeat for all learners ✔ ✔ You now have a completed scoresheet

Analyse learner's performance Quickly and easily.

Analyse learner's performance Now that the learner's results are captured you can use some high level reports that are included in FullMarks to help with identifying particular areas in which individual learners or classes need more support.

Analyse learner's performance ✔ Click on Reports on the navigations tabs to see a list of reports ✔ For example, click on Learner Performance per Topic

Analyse learner's performance Choose a class for ✔ which to generate a report ✔ Then choose a test and click on Generate ✔

Analyse learner's performance Now you have a list of topics tested and the average mark that each learners gets for questions that include that topic.

What's the point? ● Catalogue your questions ● Share your resources with your colleagues ● Help underresourced educators ● Browse questions for ideas ● Quickly adapt questions ● Discuss questions online to learn more and capture learnings for other educators to see ● Save time setting tests ● Analyse learners performance, especially if you have large classes

Accept our 5step challenge Upload a question Rate a question Verify an answer Comment on a question Teach two colleagues about FullMarks

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