Saturday, October 11, 2008

Shared Assessments in Assessment Center

If other teachers in your building teach the same subject at the same grade level, you may decide that you want to share assessments with them.  

When creating your assessment, you must make the decision to share or not share on the first page of the creation process. To share the assessment, click on the "Share this assessment, so that other educators can search for it." After doing this, the rest of the assessment creation process is exactly the same as any other assessment. The only aspect that you may want to give extra consideration is the naming process. While you might know what Math 4 Assessment 4 means, your other staff members may not. Naming the assessment with something from the topics being covered is helpful for other staff members.

To assign an assessment that another teacher has created and shared,  go to your class main page for the class you want. Once there, click on the Assessments link from the links on the left side of the page. By default, the Search for Assessments window will come up on your screen. The window is only one text line high and is about three inches long. Type the search criteria in the window, i.e.  4th Math. Click on Search. (Note: Hitting the Enter key on your keyboard doesn't do the same thing as clicking Search.) The page will refresh and a list of assessments matching your search criteria will appear.

The blue buttons above the list of assessments will allow you to preview the assessments and to assign them as well. To assign one of the assessments, click on the box in front of its name, and then click the blue Assign button. Once you have done this, you will be able to continue with the assigning process just as you would for a test that you have created.

Working together with other staff members in the creation process can help you to save some time and help evaluation by using standard procedures within departments.

If you need help using this skill, or any other, please contact your project leader.

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