Prerequisites: You need an article that you want to add the assessment to.
Summary: Configure a few simple settings and the Assessment Quick-Start will add all the relevant extensions for you.
Unless you’re creating a single-page course, we recommend creating your assessment on its own
page. You’ll want to add some text that gives the learner some context e.g. “This is the assessment. You
need to score x % to pass. The course won’t be marked as complete until you pass the assessment”.
The first step to creating your assessment is to decide which extensions to add. Have a look at this table
to decide which you want to use, and then go to Extensions to add them. Then you’ll need to configure
them.
| Extension | Purpose |
| Assessment (Required) | Essential to the creation of an assessment. This extension attaches to an article and groups question components together, providing a score and feedback. |
| Assessment Single-submit | This extension replaces individual submit buttons on each component with one submit button at the bottom of the article so all answers can be processed simultaneously. |
| Spoor | If your LMS uses SCORM tracking, the Spoor extension must be enabled and configured. |
| xAPI | If your LMS or LXP uses xAPI tracking, the xAPI extension must be added. If you’re using Learning Pool LXP, the default xAPI extension settings will work as they are. |
| Learning Objectives | Learning objectives can be attached to components and questions to indicate which topic they cover. This can be used with the Badges extension to gamify your course, and the Assisted Learning extension can use the learning objectives to signpost which topics a learner may need to revise. |
| Assisted Learning | Used in conjunction with the Learning Objectives extension, Assisted Learning directs learners towards areas of the course for revision, based on what questions they answered incorrectly in the assessment. |
| Tutor | If you want any feedback for your assessment or for any questions throughout your course, you need Tutor enabled. |
Configuring the assessment extension
Navigate to the article where you would like to add your assessment and edit the article.
Scroll down to Extensions and click Assessment.
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Enabled: activates the assessment extension on this article. You need to do this for the assessment to appear.
Assessment Name: a unique name for the assessment. Make a note of this so that you can use it in other extensions.
Attempts Allowed: controls the number of attempts the learner is allowed on the assessment. By default, this is -1, which gives them infinite attempts.
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Include in Total score: enabling this combines this assessment score with any other assessment in the course before being sent to the LMS/LXP/LRS.
The other settings shown here should be self-explanatory. |
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If you want to have your questions appear in a random order, then enable Randomised Blocks and set Block Count to 0. If you want to create a selection of different questions but only have a few shown to each learner, (e.g. there are 20 questions, but each learner only sees 5 of them) then enable Randomised Blocks If you want to have multiple collections of questions and for a certain number of questions to be drawn from each (e.g. you have Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C. Each contains three questions. You want the learner to see one question about Topic A, three questions about Topic B, and one about Topic C) then you should enable Question Banks. You can then use the Split section to specify how many questions should be drawn from each bank. There is, however, an easier way to configure your question banks: see below. |
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Once you’ve saved your assessment configuration, you can toggle your assessment article between banks and blocks, specify how many questions should come from each block, and add additional banks. |
Show feedback adds the Show feedback button to each question and displays feedback in the same way as a standard question component.
Show marking will add two different types of marking to your questions. The ticks and crosses next to the answers indicate if selecting that option was correct. The ticks and crosses at the bottom of the component indicate if the learner got the question as a whole correct. In this example, they were right to select “yes” but that wasn’t the only correct answer, they should also have selected “Yes”.
Show model answer will add the Show correct answer button to the bottom of a component. When clicked, it indicates what the correct answer is.