Are you looking at your course plan wondering how you are going to adapt the assessments that remain to your new \u2018suddenly-online course\u2019? Or maybe you would like to know what you can do to make sure students are not plagiarizing or cheating on quizzes and exams when you are not there to supervise? Finally, can you keep the evaluations you had planned or do you need new ones? There are a lot of questions and I could not answer all of them in only one article.<\/p>\n
In this article I will talk about keeping your more traditional style evaluations<\/strong> and in the second article<\/a> I will deal with having to rethink your assessments to take various formats (labs, discussions, other non-traditional forms of assessments) into account.<\/p>\n It\u2019s after midsession so you have probably already spoken to your students about the assignments and they have probably become familiar with your teaching style and the type of questions that you ask in an exam. Your students would probably appreciate the fact that you can maintain remaining assessments. <\/p>\n If you decide to keep your assessments unchanged, here are some aspects to take into account:<\/p>\n A learner\u2019s achievement can be measured using a variety of assessment types:<\/p>\n If you are using one of these formats for your evaluation here are some platforms to consider.<\/p>\n On March 30, 2020 the Centre coll\u00e9gial de d\u00e9veloppement de mat\u00e9riel didactique<\/em> (CCDMD) launched a new version of its popular tool for creating, posting and managing online questionnaires, Netquiz Web+<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do you know that it provides multiple assessment options? Teachers can:<\/p>\n DECclic<\/a> offers support for Moodle users and hosts an English community of practice<\/a> that has a series of video tutorials on creating quizzes. For a complete guide to creating tests in Moodle<\/a> [French] you can consult DECclic\u2019s French site.<\/p>\n They will also be offering a series of courses for teachers<\/a> on various topics related to the use of Moodle.<\/p>\n Concordia offers information and a video on Using Assignments in Moodle<\/a>.<\/p>\n WeBWorK is an open source mathematical exerciser used to create online questionnaires and hosted on the CCDMD website. It provides teachers with access to a vast bank of mathematical problems that can be used to assess student knowledge and progress. <\/p>\n The exercises are corrected in real time, providing individualized support and immediate and reliable feedback to each student as they work through the problems. Assessments are customized through the integration of random parameters.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s Educator Center offers a series of short videos on how to use Microsoft Forms to create both formative<\/a> and summative<\/a> assessments. Features of summative assessment include:<\/p>\n Microsoft Forms also has equation and expression features for math and science. <\/p>\n How do you know if your online students are the ones who are actually doing the learning? Are you concerned that the person who is registered for the course is the same one who is answering the questions? Do you worry that that students will have their books open during a test? There are ways to prevent such situations:<\/p>\n SALTISE\u2019 website host a wealth of Online Teaching & Learning Resources<\/a><\/strong> and in particular some very interesting resources on assessment and grading<\/strong>. For instance this resource, Moving Assessments and Final Exams Online<\/a> created by Concordia offers a step-by-step guide that can easily be adapted to meet college level challenges.<\/p>\n Among APOP<\/a>\u2019s materials there is a series of videos [in French] that explain how to turn your traditional course into an online course<\/a>. Episode 5 deals with how to manage evaluations.<\/p>\nKeep assessments unchanged\u2026if possible<\/h2>\n
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Online assessment comes in multiple forms<\/h2>\n
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Ensuring online academic integrity<\/h2>\n
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