This document discusses online testing tools and considerations. It introduces Respondus, a tool for creating online tests that can import questions from Word and publish tests to Blackboard. It also mentions StudyMate for turning tests into educational games and polling tools like Poll Daddy and Poll Everywhere. Key aspects of online tests covered include proctoring, open/closed book, timing, formatting, and question randomization.

1. Online Testing
Tests, Surveys, Respondus, StudyMate & Polling

2. Who Is Here
And
Why ?

3. Testing
The important
thing is what
you learn …
not the grade
you get …
right?

4. Formative
Summative

5. What Do You See ?

6. Online Test Considerations
• Proctor or Not?
• Open or Closed Book?
• Timed or Not
• Format?
• Scrambling of
Questions/Answers
• Formative
• Surveys
• Pretests

7. All can be
done online.
Some work
better than
others!

8. Three Natural Processes
Build
The
Test Give
The
Test Grade
The
Test

9. Build the Test

10. Give the Test

11. Grade the Test

12. Respondus 3.5
• Importing Questions in Respondus
• Publishing the test
– Print
– Blackboard
• Deployment options in Blackboard

13. Respondus 3.5
• Respondus is a tool to create online tests.
• It can import files created in Word and generate tests in Bb.
• Tests are created in Respondus and are published to your Bb course.

14. Import Format
• Types of questions: Fifteen
types compatible with Bb 7.
• Must be saved as a rich-text
(.rtf) or a text (.txt) file.
• See the standard format
handout

15. Multiple Choice Sample
Title: Speed of Light
3) Who determined the exact speed of light?
a. Albert Einstein
*b. Albert Michelson
c. Thomas Edison
d. Bud Deihl
~ Yes. Albert Michelson won the Nobel Prize for Physics for determining the exact speed
of light.
@ No. The correct answer is Albert Michelson, who won the 1907 Nobel Prize for
Physics for determining the exact speed of light.
See Standard Format For Importing Questions

16. True / False Sample
Title: Job Descriptions
5. True or False: Obsolete job descriptions can lead to lawsuits, as the
description no longer matches the essential functions of a particular
position.
*a. T
b. F See Standard Format For Importing Questions

17. Essay Sample
Title: Americans with Disabilities Act
Type: E
23. Discuss the concept of "reasonable accommodation" and
how, as a manager, you would specifically apply this concept in
the selection process for your business.
See Standard Format For Importing Questions

18. Uploading from Bb into Respondus

19. StudyMate
• Re-purpose
Respondus
quizzes into
educational
games

20. Study Aids

21. Practice Games

22. http://www.polldaddy.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

23. Our Website: http://www.vcu.edu/cte
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