When you give a digital exam to a class, you choose what it is for them: an exam, homework, or a self-assessment. In the delivery's settings you also choose the tools students get: read aloud, a calculator, dictation, and "I knew it or I guessed".
What it is to the class
At the top of a digital delivery's settings there are three cards. Each one sets the settings below it, and you can still change any of them:
- Exam: graded. One attempt, no hints, answers shown after it ends.
- Homework: not graded. No timer, hints without losing points, up to three attempts. At the end, students see the score and the answers.
- Self-assessment: for the student. They see right after each answer whether they were right, mark "I knew it" or "I guessed" on each question, and may try as many times as they like.
Students see what it is on the opening screen, for example "Homework. It isn't part of your grade: take your time, and use the hints." In the class's results and on each student's page, homework and self-assessments carry a tag and stay out of the averages.
The students' tools
- Read aloud: students can listen to the question and its answers in the question's language. Turn it off in an exam that tests reading, such as reading comprehension.
- Calculator in the exam: none, a simple calculator (the four operations) or a scientific one. Leave it off when the exam tests the calculation itself.
- Voice dictation in open answers: the student says the answer and it's written in the box. Off by default; keep it off in an exam that tests spelling or writing.
- "I knew it" or "I guessed": on each question students mark whether they knew or guessed. It doesn't change the score. In the class insights you'll see wrong answers marked "I knew it": a misconception the class holds firmly.
Students also have tools you don't need to turn on: the text view (size, spacing, a reading ruler and high contrast) and crossing out answers in multiple-choice questions. The page The tools in the exam explains them. While you watch the exam in the live exam view, students also get an Ask the teacher button.