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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Self Test
Self Test allows you to create a test consisting of multiple-choice questions that students can use to test their knowledge. No grades are assigned or recorded. Instead, when a student answers a question in a self test, they are informed immediately whether the answer is correct. You can also provide feedback on the answer.
You can create a general self test for the course or a self test for a specific content page in the content module. Students can access the self test for the course from the Course Menu, and they can access the self test for a content page from the Action Menu.
To add the Student Presentations tool to your course:
- From the Control Panel, select Add Page or Tool.
- In the Evaluation & Activity Tools column, click Self Test . The Add Self Test screen appears.
- In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear below the icon.
- Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed.
- Click Add. The Self Test tool is added to your course.
To create a self test for a content page:
You can create a self test for a content page by entering multiple-choice questions and answers.
- Go to a content module. The Content Module screen appears.
- From the Table of Contents, click the page of content to which you want to add a self test. Click Designer Options. The Content Page Settings screen appears.
- Under Action Menu, click Self test. The Self Test screen appears.
- Under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
- Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
- Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.
- If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
- To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
- Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
- To add more question and answer sets, repeat steps 5 through 10.
Note: Questions and answers are automatically displayed in Student View as soon as you enter them.
To create a self test for the course:
- Click the Self Test icon. The Self Test screen appears.
- Under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
- Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
- Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers at the bottom of the screen.
- If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
- To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
- Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
- To add more question and answer sets, repeat steps 5 through 10.
Note: Questions and answers are automatically displayed in Student View as soon as you enter them.
To add questions to an existing self test:
- From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
- Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
- Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.
- If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
- To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
- Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
- To add other question and answer sets, repeat steps 2 through 7.
To add additional answers to an existing question:
- From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
- From the Question List, select the question to which you want to add an answer.
- Under Answers, scroll down to the first available Answer text box. Add your answer. You can include:
- plain text
- simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)
- If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.
- If you want to include an explanation of each additional answer, in the Feedback text box, enter an explanation. You can include:
- plain text
- simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)
- To add more answers, repeat steps 4 and 5 for each Answer text box.
- To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer, and select Correct answer.
- Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and each new answer is added to the Question List.
To edit a question:
- From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question you want to edit.
- Under Options, click Edit. The Edit Question screen appears.
- Edit the text in the Question text box.
- Click Update. The Self Test screen appears and the Question List is updated.
To edit an answer:
- From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the answer you want to edit.
- Under Options, click Edit. The Edit Question screen appears.
- Edit the text in the Answer and Feedback text boxes for the answer you want to change.
- Click Update. The Question List appears with the edited answer.
To delete a question or answer:
Note: When a question is deleted, the answers associated with that question are also deleted.
- From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question or answer you want to delete.
- Under Options, click Delete. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. The Self Test screen refreshes and the element is removed from the Question List.
To delete all questions and answers:
- From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Delete all. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. A final warning message appears.
- Click OK. The Self Test screen refreshes and all questions are removed from the Question List.
To move questions and answers:
You can change the order of the questions in a self test. You can also change the order of the answers in a question. Note: Answers can only be moved within questions.
- From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question or answer you want to move.
- Under Organize, select the direction and distance of the move, and click Go. The Self Test screen refreshes and the Question List is updated.
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