Assessments
Assessment mode is used to push out a quiz, assessment, or LMS for a secure testing/assessment environment. Pushing out assessments locks down the students to the quiz, assessment, or LMS environment that you push out, so they may not access any other sites or searches while an assessment is running.
There are several assessment presets from which you can choose.
There are two buttons in the bottom left-hand corner of the Assessment window: Assessment, which includes a library of assessments, and Web Apps, which includes a set of LMS environments/tools. These windows are shown below.
There are also presets that are created by the Admin and ones that you can create, called custom presets.
To create your own assessment presets
Access the class that is in session.
Click the ASSESSMENT button. The Assessment window opens.
Select an assessment preset from the LOAD PRESET drop-down lists.
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to the right of any URLs you wish to remove from the Enforced URLs and the Allowed URLs sections, if desiredClick the Add Field + button in the Enforced URLs section, and type the URL in the text box that appears. You can click the Add Field + button again to add more URLs.
Note
Enforced URLs determine which sites are pushed out to the students’ screens.
Click the Add Field + button in the Allowed URLs section, and type the URL in the text box that appears. You can click the Add Field + button again to add more URLs.
Note
Allowed URLs determine which websites the students are allowed to access; however, they are not pushed out to the students.
Tip
The URL that you type in the Allowed URLs section must contain wildcards to allow access to the entire domain of the URL you type in the Enforced URLs section. For example, if you type www.purple.com in the Enforced URLs section, then you must type *purple.com* in the Allowed URLs section.
When you have finished adding all the URLs, click SAVE CURRENT PRESET to the right of the preset name.
During Assessment mode, you can enforce certain sites and all web traffic is blocked, except for the sites you list and push out. You can push out one or multiple sites at a time. The main difference between the Share/Enforce page mode and Assessment mode is that with Share/Enforce mode, you are pushing out a single URL, which means that other links within that page may not be accessible. Using Assessment mode, you can push out an entire domain which allows the student to access a signin page (if redirected and required), click on all links, tabs, content, videos, etc., within that site only.
For the example shown below, Google Classroom, Edgenuity, and MathXL are being pushed out. The students are locked to those three sites only, but they can access everything within those three environments.
The Assessment and Web Apps presets act differently in Assessment mode. For example, if a teacher pushes out an assessment on Canvas, students cannot go anywhere except that quiz URL; if they try to access any other page on Canvas, it is blocked. If a teacher chooses to push out a web app on Canvas, then students are locked down to Canvas only.
Note
A class must be running to use Assessment mode.
To push out an assessment
To start a class.
Click the ASSESSMENT button. The Assessment window opens.
At this point, there are several assessments that you can push out. There are preset assessments or you can create your own assessment.
Note
You may not have access to all Assessments or Web Apps. If you would like access to specific Assessments and Web Apps, please contact your school's administrator to approve Assessments and Web Apps for you.
Do one of the following:
Click the Assessment button to open the Assessment/Quiz Library window, as shown below. Select your quiz/assessment from our assessment library, and copy/paste the URL or code into the empty field. Then, click Confirm to push out that assessment, which closes all of the students’ current open tabs and lock them down to that assessment only.
Click the Web Apps button to open the Web Apps Library window, as shown below. Select your LMS environment/tools from our web apps library, and click Confirm to push out that web app which closes all of the students’ current open tabs and lock them down to that web app(s) only.
Enter the entire URL on the right-hand side in the Enforced URLs section. You can click Add Field + to push out multiple sites simultaneously. On the right-hand side in the Allowed URLs section, allow the domain of the URLs by using a wildcard (an asterisk) before and after the domain name (i.e., *Edgenuity*; *classroom*; *mathxl*).
Note
When selecting Canvas from the Web Apps library, you are prompted to enter your Canvas Web App domain.
Click Confirm to push out the assessment.
You can modify an assessment after you have pushed it out to your class. You can modify an assessment for the entire class or for an individual student.
To modify an assessment for an entire class or for an individual student
Click the Assessment button at the top of the screen or click the blue assessment icon below the student tile for whom you want to modify the assessment. The modify assessment window opens.
Make the necessary changes to the assessment,
Click the Update button.