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“Create on-line assessments, quizzes and tests in a snap!”

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Fig. A Fig. B Let’s start by adding a brand new assessment. Simply follow these steps: click Add Assessment in the left menu (Fig. A) and, in the

Add Assessment window (Fig. B), enter the details of your new assessment. The required fields are Title and Description (fieldshighlighted in bold are required); the remaining fields are optional and can be set them later. Enter the title “Capitals of the

World” and the description “Geography”.

2. ADD NEW ASSESSMENT

Start Microsoft Internet Explorer (you need to use this browser) and login into your eWebTest demo account at

http://demo.ewebtest.com using your personal username and password (Fig. A). If you do not yet have a username, create one at

http://www.ewebtest.com; if you have purchased an account, you can instead login at http://my.ewebtest.com. Welcome to the

Home Page (Fig. B), where you go to manage your account features: you can add users (test takers and/or test authors),create/edit assessments, check messages, set preferences and much more.

1. LOGIN



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Fig. A Fig. B You should now see your assessment in the Assessment List window. Let’s add some questions to the quiz. If you are familiar

with WebQuiz XP (or WebQuiz SQL) and you have some questions created with this software, you can easily import them with a

single mouse click (refer to step 6). Additionally, eWebTest allows you to import questions from external text files (e.g. Microsoft

Excel, Access, etc.). Otherwise you can add each question manually in a few simple steps. Click the Questions icon to display

the Question List window. Select Add new question from the drop-down box at the bottom-left of the window (Fig. A) and click

Ok . eWebTest supports several question types: the default one is multiple choice and we will use it in this tutorial. In the Question

box type “What is the capital city of the United Kingdom?” (Fig. B).

4. ADD QUESTIONS

Take a few moments to customize your assessment. All available options are grouped into 5 tabs: Properties, Options,

Advanced, Results and Style. If you click the Options tab (Fig. A) you can set some basic options: for example, select the options

Show questions in random order and Show answers in random order, set a Max Time of 10 minutes, and type a few

instructions in the Messages box for test takers. Now click the Advanced tab (Fig. B) and look at the Status option at the bottom

of the screen: the default value is Not Active. This allows you to prevent the assessment from being taken before you are finished

editing it. Once the assessment is ready to launch, be sure to set the status to Active, otherwise the quiz cannot be taken by users.

For now, leave it as Not Active. Click Ok to save your settings: the system will create your empty (i.e. no questions) assessment.

3. CUSTOMIZE YOUR ASSESSMENT



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Another quick and easy way to add questions is to import them from WebQuiz XP, WebQuiz SQL or external text files. If you do

not have an existing WebQuiz XP file skip this step and proceed directly to step 7, otherwise here’s how you can import an

existing quiz from WebQuiz XP: open your quiz (.wbq) in WebQuiz XP and click Save on the top-right corner. In the bottom drop-

down box choose eCourses Import File (*.qst) and save it. Go back to eWebTest and in the Assessment List window select

Import assessment from the drop-down box at the bottom-left of the window (Fig. A). Then click Ok . The Assessment Import

Wizard appears (Fig. B). Click the Browse button to select your .qst file and click Next. After a few seconds, a message appears

confirming the success of the operation. Click Close to close the window and you will see your imported assessment. If needed,

you can also import and append questions to an existing assessment.

6. IMPORT ASSESSMENT

Click the Answers tab (Fig. A) and type three answers for your question: in Answer 1 type “Belfast”, in Answer 2 type

“Edinburgh”, and in Answer 3 type “London”. Select the last one (using the option button on the right) as the correct answer. If

needed, you can also click the Show/Hide details icon to set a different Score and a different Feedback message for each

answer. In the Options tab (Fig. B) select the option Answer is required; you can also set a score if the answer given by the test

taker is right, wrong or null (no answer). Click Ok to save your settings. The question will appear in the Question List window.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 so your assessment contains at least two questions.

5. ADD ANSWERS





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Fig. A Fig. B Once you have added students, you need to enroll them into your assessment. Of course, if needed, you can enroll each student

into multiple assessments. Click Assessment List in the left menu and click the arrow on the left of your quiz title. Now click

the Options button and select Enroll Users (Fig. A). Select the user(s) you want to enroll and click Ok (Fig. B). You have now

enrolled one or more users into the assessment and the enrolled users are now ready to complete the assessment.

10. ENROLL USERS

If you want to publish a private assessment, you need to add the users that will be allowed to access. eWebTest supports different

types of users: administrators (they can manage everything), instructors (they can only create assessments), students (they can

only take assessments). Click Add User in the left menu and, in the Properties tab (Fig. A), enter the required information: fill in

the fields User Name, Password, Confirm, First Name and Last Name with some fancy information (e.g. Stephanie Sanders).

Select the Advanced tab and assign the role Student to this user (Fig. B). Click Ok to confirm. Proceed in the same way to add

additional users (you can also import them, if needed). Remember – this is a one-time operation: once added, users do not need

to be added again.

9. ADD USERS



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Once submitted, answers are immediately saved and test takers can see their total score, as well as the correct answers (Fig. A).

Quiz authors, however, can choose to disable these options. Once finished, close the results window, logout and login again as

yourself (the administrator), so we can continue this tutorial. After you have logged in as the administrator (see step 1), click

Assessment List in the left menu and click the Sessions icon for your quiz: the Session List window displays the list of

sessions for your assessment (i.e. how many times the quiz has been taken). Click the Preview icon to view more information

about each session (Fig. B). The additional information includes: given answers, if they are correct (green mark) or incorrect (red

mark), total time, and so on. These data can be also exported to XLS (Microsoft Excel) or CSV format. Close the preview to return

to the Session List window.

12. CHECK RESULTS

Now let’s take the assessment by impersonating a student. Click Logout in the top-right corner. In the Login window type in the

username and password of the student you have just enrolled. Once logged in, you will see that a student does not have access to

all of the features; as a result, the left menu in the Home Page has less options than it had when you were logged in as yourself

the administrator. Click the assessment title in the section My Assessments (Fig. A) and choose Start Assessment Now (Fig. B).

Take the assessment and click Submit to submit your answers (since this is not a preview, all given answers, scores and results will

be saved into the database).

11. TAKE THE ASSESSMENT: PRIVATE ACCESS



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Another useful way to analyze statistics is to display them as charts. Click Assessment List in the left-menu and then click the

Questions icon for your assessment to go to the Question List window. For each question you can create a chart displaying the

statistics about that question by simply clicking the Chart icon (Fig. A). Likewise, you can create a chart for each session (Fig. B):

in the Assessment List window, click the Sessions icon and then the Chart icon. In the toolbar of each chart you can select

a different chart style, change its properties, export it as an image or simply print it.

14. CHARTING

eWebTest enables you to export all the data from each session into a PDF file. In the Session List window select Export report in

the drop-down box at the bottom of the window (be sure to select Export report from the section All Sessions). Choose PDF

(simple) from the second drop-down box and click Ok . After a moment you will see a PDF file with the list of the users that took

the assessment and their scores (Fig. A). You can also create a more detailed summary by choosing PDF (detailed). If you also

want a report for each session and each user (for example, given answers) return to the Session List window and click the

PDF icon for each session. This PDF file (Fig. B) may be useful if you want to print it or keep a copy for your records (for example,

test takers can sign it).

13. REPORTING

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