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Creating Your Exam

    Before you log into your Education Exchange Creator account it may be useful to read this page.

    The Curriculum Quick Reference Guide contains more detailed descriptions of Education Exchange Exam functions.

    Title and description of your program.

    This should include an outline of what the exam is for, a description of the assessment process and perhaps the reason your participants should complete it.

    For example

    This 40 question quiz will test your knowledge of fixed interest investments. Successful participants are able to enrol in the Fixed Interest Accreditation Workshop

    Any resources you want to accompany your exam

    This might include notes they can use in the exam or documents to make available after the exam is completed. Resources can be files such as word (.doc) PowerPoint (.ppt) or Acrobat (.pdf) files or on-line resources accessible via a URL.

    While you might have previously provided work books and reference materials providing them as an on-line resource means your audience don't run into any brick walls if they can't find them as your deadline approaches.

    Your Exam Structure

    Your exam can comprises one or more sections.

    Sections are useful when structuring your exam to cover the body of knowledge you are assessing.

    You can require the exam participant to meet a pass mark in every section of the exam.

    While this might make the exam more difficult, it addresses a problem where an adviser might meet the overall pass mark, while scoring poorly in one critical section, such as taxation on investment products.

    At the end of the exam participants' results can be displayed with feedback.

    Where the participant doesn't reach the pass mark and a re-sit is allowed, you have the option of having them only complete sections where the pass mark wasn't reached, instead of repeating the entire exam.

    Each section can contain a pool of questions that can be drawn from e.g. each exam might contain four sections drawing 10 questions drawn from a pool of 20. This results in a randomly generated exam, which makes cheating harder.

    If you don't have a pool of questions you can opt to display them in a random order.

    Questions (and answers)

    Question types supported include Multiple Choice, Multiple Section and text responses.

    Multiple choice and Selection questions can be scored automatically, text responses must be marked by an administrator or someone you nominate.

    Options when adding or editing questions include displaying feedback when the question is answered, variable scores for each question and setting a release and expiry date for the questions.

    (Question Expiry and release dates can be useful when the answer will change on a specific date, for example, if an policy fee changes on the 1st January each year the old question, containing the old response, can be set to expire and a new question can be scheduled to be released at the same time.)

    Exam Protocol

    This includes any instructions you want to add to your exam

    The exam preview displays instructions including the number of questions in the exercise, pass mark, any time limit you impose (up to 120 minutes if you have a time limit) and re-sit allowances.

    You can add additional text and select from the following options

    Option Default Notes
    Owner Appears as the assessor Must be registered on your account
    Start Link Start the Examination Any Text
    When the event closes Sends an e-mail to nominated e-mail addresses Requires a valid E-mail address
    Supervised If selected another person uses their log on details to release the exam The name of the person who released the exam is recorded instead of the Owner.

    By default anyone with an account can release an exam. You can restrict this to specific accounts.
    Time Limit 10 minute increments, up to 120 minutes Setting 0 (default) means no time restriction applies
    Pass Options
    1. The pass mark required is the overall score
    2. The pass mark is required for EACH section
    3. Pass for Participating. Does not require a passmark.
      A score will be recorded.


    Pass Options

    If the participant meets the pass criteria what will happen?

    The exam will automatically display the results.

    Select from options to provide additional information, confirm the result by e-mailing a certificate or notify another person.

    Fail Options

    If the participant isn't successful what do they do then?

    Again the default settings will notify the participant of their overall score.

    Additional options allow you to display more detailed feedback, specify the allowed number of re-sits, (1 - 10 or unlimited) and determine whether a re-sit exam comprises a new exam or only those sections where the participant did not reach the pass mark.

    A notification can be sent to the participant's manager or a nominated e-mail addresses if the allowed number of re-sits are exceeded.

    Exam Pre-requisites

    Nominate whether other activities must be completed or held before the exercise may be attempted. This exam or training result will need to be recorded in Education Exchange.

    Deployment

    How will participants access your exam?

    Exams created in Education Exchange Creator are normally accessed via

  1. A web badge displaying on any web page. The code required to display a graphic leading to your exam is available in the Deployment section.
  2. By e-mail using an e-mail template. The template Learning Event Advice to Student has been created for this purpose.

Education Exchange webLMS accounts have additional options

  1. If the participant is in the same account as the exam you can make the exam appear on their Outstanding Training page.
  2. The exam can be made available in a Knowledge Base.

Exams created in Education Exchange Creator can be published and made available to Education Exchange webLMS accounts.

Once published by the exam creator the administrator of the other account 'subscribes' to the exam using a Pass Key.

Subscribed exams can be deployed to an audience in an Education Exchange webLMS account based on a range of criteria including roles, locations and Business Units.

Access to exams may also be restricted to specific people using a Project Group.

If you publish an exam you retain control of the content, which cannot be edited by any subscriber.

    How do I test my exam?

    The Event Preview page displays all questions and answers for proof reading however it is strongly recommended you test your exam before it is released.

    Testing an exam would normally involve

  1. Proof reading by someone other than the exam author
  2. Review by another subject matter expert
  3. Repeating the exam, passing, failing and re-siting to check the settings
  4. Testing in a pilot group representative of the audience