Tag: assessment
Feedback and Assessment – web resources
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:03
These look useful – a series of recordings of webinars held by the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme: Assessment and Feedback: in the hands of the student (Prof. David Nicol) Making Assessment Count (Prof. Gunter Saunders, University of Westminster and Peter Chatterton) e-Portfolios for Assessment and Feedback (Emma Purnell, University of Wolverhampton and Geoff Rebbeck, [...]
TouchStone…New Name…Rogō
November 3rd, 2011 at 05:11
A new version of TouchStone has been released with new functionality and a new name! Rogō 4.1 has some new features developed to meet the requirements identified by users within the University. Maths/Chemistry equation editor An equation editor has been added to Rogō to allow the inclusion of equations in question text [...]
Webinar: New paradigms for assessment within image intensive disciplines: examples from Histology
August 2nd, 2011 at 09:08
If you’re interested in Assessment you may be glad to hear about this free webinar on Wednesday, 3 August 2011 “New paradigms for assessment within image intensive disciplines: examples from Histology”, with presenter: Professor Geoff Meyer (University of Western Australia). It’s part of a series on Rethinking assessment in a participatory digital world – Assessment 2.0. [...]
Editing restrictions on live and locked TouchStone papers
May 17th, 2011 at 03:05
When a Formative paper is ‘live’ as set by the ‘Available From’ and ‘To’ dates, there are some restrictions set by TouchStone: You can’t change the question order You can’t change the screen number for a question You can’t remove questions from the paper What to do – If you are still working on the [...]
Do TouchStone exams automatically end after the allocated time period?
May 10th, 2011 at 03:05
The ending of a TouchStone exam is controlled by the person running the exam by making an announcement that students must stop answering questions, navigate to the final screen and click on the Finish button. The advantage of this method over a software automatic method is that it allows additional time to be added if [...]
How do exams start in TouchStone?
May 4th, 2011 at 08:05
TouchStone exams run through the ‘Exam Desktop’ which prevents students from accessing applications other than their TouchStone exam. There is a standard exam login that all students use to access the ‘Exam Desktop’ and this is followed by a second login where students use their normal University username and password. TouchStone will then find the [...]
Avoid unintentionally locking questions
February 9th, 2011 at 08:02
If you open a question in TouchStone for editing but do not make any changes you should use the Close button to exit the question editor. If you use the ‘Back’ button in the browser you will be taken out of the question editor window but the question will remain locked for an hour. While [...]
Assessment Practice Project – ESCAPE
January 16th, 2011 at 09:01
The ESCAPE (Effecting Sustainable Change in Assessment Practice and Experience) Project offers a collection of helpful resources about assessment. The project aimed to develop assessment for learning activities to enhance the assessment experience for learners and staff. It worked with the University of Hertfordshire’s Business School and School of Life Sciences. As well as the project [...]
How can a student get more than 100% in a test?
November 25th, 2010 at 09:11
When reviewing the results of a student test, I saw that one student had got over 100%. Is this a super intelligent student or was TouchStone being very generous? Looking at the stored data for the paper it could be seen that questions had been removed from the paper after the paper had been made [...]
What happens if there is a power cut in an online exam?
November 22nd, 2010 at 08:11
I have seen papers that have all questions on one screen which could result in the loss of all student responses. If you organise your paper well you can reduce the amount of data that could potentially be lost if there is a major technical failure. Exam papers should be split across a number of [...]