{"id":350,"date":"2019-03-15T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2019-03-15T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:21:52","slug":"quiz-and-assessment-what-to-look-for-in-an-authoring-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/quiz-and-assessment-what-to-look-for-in-an-authoring-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz and Assessment \u2013 What to look for in an Authoring Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quizzes and Assessments have been an integral&nbsp; part of E-Learning&nbsp; ever since people started developing Digital\nLearning. Quizzes have been used to enhance learning , engagement, &nbsp;and interactivity while Assessments have been\nused to&nbsp; formally track and monitor\nlearner performance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most formal\nE-learning programs today &nbsp;include an Assessment.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Many &nbsp;Authoring Systems today&nbsp; include features that enable&nbsp; developers to create Quizzes and Assessments\nquickly and easily. However,&nbsp; they may\nvary widely in terms of their&nbsp; features&nbsp; functionality flexibility and ease of\nuse.&nbsp; We\u2019ve tried to put together a&nbsp; comprehensive set of the features and\nfunctionality required&nbsp; for&nbsp; Quizzes and Assessments to help you evaluate\nhow &nbsp;different Authoring System measure\nup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>The Quiz Template Library<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing to check is&nbsp;\nwhether your Authoring System offers a <strong>Quiz Template Library. <\/strong>A quiz template is essentially a pre\nprogrammed page that enables &nbsp;you to\ncreate&nbsp; quizzes easily.&nbsp; &nbsp;If&nbsp; your\nAuthoring System doesn\u2019t offer a Quiz Template library, you will need&nbsp; program each quiz question separately which\ncould take up a lot of time and effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Types of Questions Supported<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Authoring System offers a Quiz Template Library you\nneed to examine how extensive &nbsp;the\nlibrary is, and what types of Quiz Questions it supports. At the very minimum\nyour Template Library needs to support the following types of quiz questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>True False<\/li><li>MCQ Single Answer \u2013 Radio Button<\/li><li>MCQ Multiple Answers \u2013 Checkbox<\/li><li>Fill in the Blanks<\/li><li>Drop Down Lists<\/li><li>Drag and Drop \u2013 One to One<\/li><li>Drag and Drop \u2013 One to Many<\/li><li>Drag and Drop&nbsp;\n&#8211; Many to One<\/li><li>Drag and Drop Many to One<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Media Support<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Including media in your quizzes can help make your quizzes\nmuch more interesting and meaningful.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;You need to ensure that your Authoring System\nallow you to incorporate various types of media&nbsp;\nsuch as Images, Audio, Video and Animations into your questions. There\nare&nbsp; usually three parts of any Quiz <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Question Stem<\/li><li>The Response Options, and <\/li><li>The Feedback<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You should ensure that your\nAuthoring System allow you to incorporate media in each of these areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Ease of Use<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important thing to consider is ease of use.&nbsp;&nbsp; Are the quiz templates easy and intuitive.\nSome points&nbsp; you need to consider are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How easy is it to create&nbsp; the question and response options<\/li><li>How Easy is it to add media<\/li><li>How easy is it to specify the feedback<\/li><li>How easy is it to specify the correct answer<\/li><li>How easy is it to specify the score for the\nquestion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Flexibility and Customization<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Flexibility and customization are important considerations\nwhen it comes to Quizzes and Assessments.&nbsp;\nMost e-learning developers&nbsp; have\ntheir own preferences and unique requirements.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nYou need to ensure that your Authoring System offers you the flexibility\nto customize <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Number of Options<\/li><li>The Layout of the question<\/li><li>Feedback<\/li><li>Number of Tries<\/li><li>The Submit button<\/li><li>The Scoring<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Custom Quiz Templates<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Often you may&nbsp; want to\ncreate quiz questions that are unique to your own needs.&nbsp;&nbsp; For instance&nbsp;\nyou may&nbsp; want to create a complex quiz\nquestion that has two parts a&nbsp; Multiple\nChoice and&nbsp; a Drag and Drop.&nbsp; Having created such questions you may want to\nsave these as a template.&nbsp; Therefore do check\nwhether your&nbsp; Authoring System &nbsp;allows you to add to the default &nbsp;template library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Assessments<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Assessments are tests that are usually included at the end\nof&nbsp; an e-learning course of module.&nbsp; Authoring systems often include some type of Assessment\nengine .&nbsp; Make sure that your Assessment\nengine enables you to :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create an Assessment<\/li><li>Specify the number of questions in the Assessment<\/li><li>Create Pools or Groups &nbsp;of Questions<\/li><li>Specify how many questions from each group\nshould be included in the Assessment<\/li><li>Assign a Score to each question or group of\nquestions<\/li><li>Specify&nbsp; negative\nmarks for&nbsp; incorrect answers if required<\/li><li>Specify whether&nbsp;\na Submit button &nbsp;should appear<\/li><li>Specify &nbsp;how &nbsp;many times a student can attempt a question\n(Permissible number of tries)<\/li><li>Specify if you want marks deducted for\nadditional tries<\/li><li>Include or Omit feedback<\/li><li>Provide a Results Screen<\/li><li>Review the Assessment after completion<\/li><li>Provide a Certificate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>LMS Integration<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally you need to make sure that your Authoring System can\nintegrate with your LMS . A good Authoring System should be able to support\nmultiple LMS Standards such as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AICC<\/li><li>SCORM 1.2<\/li><li>SCROM 2004<\/li><li>XAPI<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quizzes and Assessments have been an integral&nbsp; part of E-Learning&nbsp; ever since people started developing Digital Learning. Quizzes have been used to enhance learning , engagement, &nbsp;and interactivity while Assessments have been used to&nbsp; formally track and monitor learner performance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most formal E-learning programs today &nbsp;include an Assessment. &nbsp;Many &nbsp;Authoring Systems today&nbsp; include features that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}