The Activity Window
The Activity Window includes educational activities that
have been created by your professor. These items include
module details, lecture outlines, seminar themes, selected
readings on important topics, assessment exercises,
bibliographic information, and links to other internet
resources.
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To access the Activity window click on the Activity
button at the top of the application window. The activity
window has several important buttons.
- Search: Opens the search section to provide a search
for a desired topic or phrase. To perform a search, type
the search topic into the "Keyword" query box.
- Open Additional Window: Selecting this button will
open a new window that contains a copy of the contents of
the activity window.
- Text to Speech: When the text to speech button is
selected, the text in the activity window will be read to
the student.
At the top of the activity window are four
buttons:Orientation, Slide Tray, Library and Assessment.
- Library: The Library section contains the lecture
materials provided by the professor. These materials may
include lectures material, selected readings, graphics,
readings, indexes, or activity guides. To access the
material in the library section, click on the library
menu. In the Reference Selection and you will find
folders for Course Material and Topic material. These
sections correspond to the material covered in each of
the content topics. Classic publications also appear in
this window.
- Assessment: The assessment section contains
interactive practice activities that test your knowledge
of concepts covered in the class material.
Assessment Menu Items
- Multiple Choice and True-False Questions: The choice
questions section contains multiple choice questions that
students can answer for practice. To choose a topic,
simply click the circle next to the topic.
- Testing Statistics: The testing statistics area
displays information about the work a student has
completed while answering a multiple choice question
topic.
- Last test score: The percent score of the most recent
exercise.
- Start: Begins a practice exercise for the topic
selected.
- Items remaining: The items remaining field shows how
many questions are left for the selected topic. As you
answer questions correctly, the number in this field will
decrease. When the Items Remaining field says zero, then
you know that you have seen and correctly answered all of
the questions for the selected topic at least once.
- Items answered correctly: This field shows the total
number of questions correctly answered for the selected
topic.
- Item answered: This field shows the total number of
questions asked for the selected topic.
- Total score in percent: The percent score of you
practice tests (questions answered correctly /questions
answered).
What is a Practice Exercise?
Each topic displayed under "Choice Questions" contains a
set number of multiple choice or True-False questions. When
you select a topic and push the generate exam button, you
will be given a "practice exercise".
This practice exercise is a randomly chosen selection of
some of the questions in the topic you chose. The default
number of questions displayed is 10, but this number can be
changed by the student. When you answer a practice question
correctly, you will not see that question again in
subsequent practice exercises until you answer ALL of the
topic questions. Each practice exercise should only contain
questions that you have not answered, or have answered
incorrectly. Once you answer all of the questions for a
topic correctly, all of the questions for that topic will
become available again.
Beginning a Practice Exercise
To begin a practice exercise, click the circle next to
the topic you would like to test yourself on, then click the
"Start" button. If you select multiple topics your exercise
will contain questions for each of the topics selected.
When you click the Generate Exam button, the assessment
menu will disappear and you will see the first practice
question and corresponding answer choices. To answer the
question, click the circle next to your answer choice.
You can also select your answer by pressing the
corresponding number key on your keyboard (for example, if
you wanted to choose the first answer choice, you could
press the number 1 key on your keyboard).
If the current practice question includes an image, the
image will be displayed in the lower right corner of the
assessment window. To advance to the next question click on
the forward/backward arrows located in the top left corner
of the test window (next to the question number). You can
also navigate the questions by clicking on the RIGHT and
LEFT arrow keys on your keyboard. Click on the left arrow
key for the previous question, click on the right arrow key
for the next question.
NOTE - You will NOT be able to
access the other application windows (such as the
Presentation Window or Notepad Window)while you are taking a
practice exercise.
Grading the Practice Exercise
Once you answer the 10 questions, open the assessment
menu by clicking the "Menu" button. You will notice that the
"Generate Exam" button is now labeled "Grade Exam". Push the
"Grade Exam" button to grade the 10 questions you just
answered. The test statistics for the selected topic will
update and your score for the 10 questions will appear in
the Latest Score field. You will not be able to grade the 10
questions until all of the questions have been answered.
Checking Your Work
To check your answers, simply close the assessment menu
by clicking the "Menu" button. You will see the questions
you were asked and you answer choices. Incorrect answer
choices will appear in red, correct answer choices will
appear in green.
NOTE - Some professors may choose to highlight the
correct answer if an incorrect answer was given, or provide
an explanation of the correct answer. Providing correct
answers or explanations is completely at the discretion of
the professor teaching the class, and is subject to change
between semesters. If available, explanations of answers
will appear in the lower right corner of the assessment
window after the exercise has been graded.
If you would like to continue testing yourself after you
check your work, simply open the assessment menu by clicking
the "Menu" button, select the topic you would like to test
yourself on and click the generate exam button. There is no
limit to the number of times you can view and answer
questions from the topic choices in the assessment menu.
Sending Your Practice Results
Some professors may require students to turn in the
results of their practice exercises. To do so, click on the
FILE button in the top left corner of the assessment window,
then select SEND. See the Output Window section for more
information.
Graded Online Exercises
During the semester your professor may choose to assign
an online exercise in which your graded work is sent to the
Online Grade Book. In such cases, you will be given a nine
digit exercise code to enter in the three white boxes found
in the testing menu. In most cases the entire exercise code
will automatically fill in after the first 3 characters are
typed into the first exercise code box. Your professor will
provide you with the exercise codes that are needed.
It is very important that you enter the exercise
correctly. Once the exercise code autofills, do not change
any of the characters. The exercise code entered determines
the number of questions to answer, the allotted time to
answer the questions, and the topics that the questions come
from. If you enter an incorrect exercise code, you will be
given the wrong exercise questions, the wrong number of
questions, or the incorrect amount of time in which to
complete the exercise.
NOTE: An exercise code can be used only
ONE time. You will
NOT be able to use an exercise code a
second time if you have already entered it and begun a
graded exercise. If it is necessary for you to retake a
graded exercise you must contact your professor for an
alternate exercise code.
Once the exercise code has been properly entered, click
the "Generate Exam" button. You will be prompted with a
screen describing the conditions of the graded exercise.
Please read these directions carefully, as they will outline
the number of questions, contact information, etc for the
graded exercise you are about to take. The direction box
will also state the allotted time for the graded online
exercise.
After closing the direction box, you will see the first
question of the graded online exercise. Simply answer all of
the questions as you would a normal practice exercise,
advancing through the questions with the arrow keys or
forward/backward buttons. Once you complete the graded
online exercise, you can grade your work by clicking on the
"Menu" button in the top left corner of the screen, then
clicking on the "Grade Exam" button.
The online exercise are timed. The time allowed is
mentioned in the direction box that appears when you push
the Generate Exam button. The timer in the upper right
corner of the assessment window keeps track of the amount of
time you have spent working on the online exercise. Once the
timer reaches the allotted time, the online exercise will
end and your work will be graded.
You must be connected to the internet before you can take
an online exercise. To check your connection status, click
on the Control button at the top of the application window.
Sending Your Graded Online Exercise Results.
When you have completed all of the questions in the
graded online exercise and pressed the Grade Exam button,
your scores will automatically be sent to the Online Grade
Book. Unlike the practice exercises, your professor has
automatic access to these graded online exercise scores and
can use them for class credit.
You can also send your results to the Online Grade Book
by clicking on the FILE button located at the top left
corner of the application window, then selecting SEND.
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