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Functionality
Item Builder
Creating tasks is the most important part of the testing platform. When creating tasks, you have 37 types of interactions at your disposal. These include text-based, graphical, file-based, and integrations with other systems. To get acquainted with the wide range of interaction types, you can look at our sample tasks. When composing tasks, you can combine different interaction types within a single task.
As a teacher, you can create tasks only for use in your own tests. To manage tasks, you can group them into collections.
In the Exam Center, it is also possible to create public tasks that are available for everyone or for teachers only.
Every task always has one main language. Advanced test creators can add translation layers in other languages to a task.
Test Builder
As a teacher, you assemble a test from tasks and can decide how many points each task is worth. You can also share editing rights for the test by assigning an owner role to a colleague.
Tests can be one-directional (tasks must be done in a specific order, and you cannot go back to a previous task) or multi-directional (tasks can be done in any order, and you can revisit previous tasks later).
You can set a time limit for taking the test.
The Teacher package includes a wide selection of interactions but a simple test structure, making it easy to use even for those who do not create tests daily. With the PRO package, you can also create more complex test structures that have multiple test sections, and each section can have subtests. Each section in the same test can have a different response format (oral, written, or interview). In test sections with subtests, you can define for each subtest whether tasks are answered one-directionally or multi-directionally. You can also set a separate time limit for each subtest.
As a PRO package user, you can create tests with multiple task sets. Depending on the test arrangement, the system may randomly select a set of tasks, or test-takers may choose which set they want to solve.
A special case is diagnostic tests, where the e-test software selects the next task individually based on the knowledge the test-taker has demonstrated in previously solved tasks.
Registration
As a teacher, you can make the test available to students by creating a test roster. You can create several rosters for the same test. The same roster contains those students who usually take the test simultaneously. If you work with specific classes, you can group students by class and then assign the test to the entire class at once. Alternatively, you can generate a test link and share it through external channels; in that case, you do not need to add test-takers individually to the test roster because anyone with the link can take the test.
In centrally organized tests, there are many registration options: a student can register themselves, the school can register students, and the exam center can always register test-takers as well. The test organizers can define which registration method is allowed.
Conducting tests
Organizing centrally managed tests and exams starts with describing dates and various settings in the exam center. For a multi-section test, each test section is given its own organizational settings, and test-taking locations are determined—usually schools. In each test-taking location, you can specify the rooms where the test will take place. Once test-takers are registered, they are assigned to test-taking locations and rooms. For oral tests, you can schedule individual start times for each test-taker. Local configurations are usually performed by local administrators at the test-taking locations, but they can also be done by the exam center’s test organizer.
E-test administration
Test-takers log in to the system. If they are registered for a test and it is about to begin, a link to the test will appear right on the homepage.
Each test room must have at least one e-test administrator. In a teacher’s test roster scenario, you yourself are the test administrator, but you can also assign the test administrator role to colleagues if desired. The test administrator sees on their screen the status of all test-takers in that room and may have the right to give permission to start the test, remove someone from the test session, generate passwords if needed, or grant additional time for taking the test.
For security purposes, you can register the computers in a computer lab before test-takers arrive. In this case, the test can only be taken from those specific registered computers.
Automated grading
Questions can be automatically graded, manually graded, or a hybrid of both.
The automated grading process is based on the use of grading matrices. Each question has its own grading matrix, containing correct (and if necessary, partially correct or incorrect) answers with associated point values. In the grading matrix (for textual interactions), you can record a precise textual answer, a regular expression, or a formula that interprets the answer. Using a formula, it is possible to take into account, for example, the answers given to other questions. For graphical interactions, the grading matrix may include coordinates. In addition to question-specific grading matrices, there are so-called calculated values that can compute results based on other question answers or points earned. These calculated results can award points or generate feedback.
The rules for automatically graded questions are created before the test is administered, but they can be amended afterwards, and the test-takers’ results recalculated.
In hybrid grading, an automated process occurs first; only if a score cannot be determined that way does the work go to a human grader.
Human grading (manual grading)
In teacher-created tests, any tasks not automatically graded remain for the teacher to grade. As a teacher, you can also assign other users who are authorized to grade your students’ work. If desired, you can assign graders on a per-task basis.
In centrally organized tests, tasks are grouped into grading pools. Graders are assigned for each grading pool. If a test has multiple grading pools, each work is graded by multiple graders. Depending on the settings, graders may be assigned centrally or by the school.
The grading pool settings define whether single or double grading is required. The simplest case is single grading (level I). However, for questions requiring subjective grading, double grading is used—graders I and II, who may be paired or completely separate. In double grading, the overall result is generally the average of points assigned by the two graders. If their scores differ beyond a specified margin, a third grader (with more experience) is brought in. If graders I, II, and III all produce different results, a fourth grader, known as an expert grader, intervenes. In case of appeals, there is also a fifth grader.
Feedback & Statistics
Detailed feedback and statistics provide very valuable information. Tests created in the exam center or with the PRO package can include feedback forms that generate verbal feedback for both the test-taker and the teacher. Feedback forms can use formulas and functions that consider the points earned for each question and the answers given.
Certificates
It is possible to develop certificate templates that can be used to generate certificates for those who pass a centrally organized exam.
Appeals
For centrally organized exams, the organizer can configure that candidates have the option to file an appeal regarding their results. Appeals are submitted directly in the system. A user with the appropriate role must then process the appeal, where the work is reassessed by expert graders. The expert graders submit a proposal, which can increase, decrease, or leave the score unchanged. Based on this proposal, the expert committee makes a decision.
Additional development
Our dedicated team is happy to offer additional development work to create new functionality, integrate the system with other information systems, export or import data, and adapt workflows for enterprise installation to match organizational practices, etc.