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Activate assessments immediately not after 24 hours
It doesn't make sense that an assessment takes 24 hours to become activated after an instructor requests activation
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AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the idea. Activations are created by the instructor of the class. Please contact them regarding this suggestion.
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Allow the NetAcad Contact to activate exams and view the grade books for classes in his academy
Allow the NetAcad Contact to activate exams and view the grade books for classes in his academy without having the right to note the student as Pass or fail in the gradebook.
The NetAcad Contact can be given the right to activate any exam for the classes and also he can view the grade book for any class. So he can follow up with the instructors if needed.
However he will not have the right to note a student as Pass or Fail in the grade book.
The feature was available in the academy connection platform.4 votesHello Jean, NetAcad Contact’s already have this ability in Cisco NetSpace:
1. Log in to Cisco NetSpace and click on your ‘Manage’ tab.
2. Click on the name of your academy listed in the ‘Manage Your Institutions’ section.
3. Scroll over ‘Courses & Groups’ in the upper left to find the ‘Manage Accounts’ section.
4. Click on the academy under ‘Manage Accounts’.
5. Here you will see a list of courses under the ‘Courses’ section, or your can use the ‘Find a Course’ to filter the courses.
6. Click on the course name to be able to view the course as the Instructor does and access their ‘Assignments’ page and ‘Grades’, etc.Thanks!
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CCNA Certification Practice Exam for preparing 200-120 exam
We need to have cumulative CCNA practice Exams which prepare students to take 200-120 exam, as happened for 640-802.
Indeed at the moment there is only a practice exam for ICND1 (located in routing and switching essentials curriculum) and one practice exam for ICND2 (located in Connecting Network)
How can students, who are going to take 200-120 exam, verify their preparation?(since it's not realistic to do different practice exams which cover differents topic)104 votes -
Better testing on the part of Cisco. i.e. Java 8 update and now when the student launches the PT in an assessment it crashes.
Do a better job of testing. Java 8 now causes an error when a student attempts to load the PT in an assessment. Going back to Java 7 is not a solution.
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Posting Information about how Java updates affect assessments
My students periodically get an error message when taking assessments using Google Chrome that say something like: "The following pages have become unresponsive...you can wait or kill the pages."
Academy support mentioned that it's likely due to Java updates and to try the latest version of another browser like Firefox. Alternatively, I could try "going to Chrome settings and add '.assessment.netacad.net' to BOTH the Java exceptions page and the Pop-up exceptions page have [at times] resolved the issue."
I would like to see posted somewhere in Netspace (FAQs perhaps?) suggestions to fix this "Pages unresponsive" issue (and any others that…
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Java and packet Tracers on Tests - Problematic
Using Java to launch the packet tracers on chapter exams is very problematic. In violates best practices to allow java to access local resources on the local machine.
This scheme is also very sensitive to rapidly changing Java Versions. For my class, it worked for the first weeks of the semester, and then suddenly quit working because the java was out of date. I had no way of knowing this beforehand. (How can we know when sun updates java?)
Also, where my student tests, I have no administrative rights. It typically takes about a week to get my IT staff…4 votesHi Mike,
This was posted in the new NetSpace Communities from Product Manager, Thanh Le:
A Packet Tracer Media Object (PTMO) is a Packet Tracer activity that acts as an interactive media object for multiple choices (MC), drag-and-drop (DND) and fill-in-the-blanks (FIB) questions. Students will perform basic configuration, design and exploration tasks within the PT activities before answering the MC, DND, or FIB questions. We believe the PTMOs enhance students understanding and retention of the learning materials as they progress through the course. In addition, it will also enable students to familiarize and instructors to identify and resolve potential issues before students taking the Packet Tracer Skills Assessment.
First, we do empathize with your problems – most of them are related to Java performing frequent updates and interacting differently with each browser. Unfortunately, we do NOT have a quick term fix. In the…
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allow Instructors to set and share a pool of written exams at checkpoint ? Especially for ITE and ICS and CSE know cybersecurity?
This will break the cycle of multiple Choice that they take easily... If they got the training it shows in the responses given... And brings out any sections not understood well. It means instructors also to share 4th either oops if the same... Just for checkpoint evaluation.
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Assessment Center
Under Settings -> Navigation, Assessment Center can only be visible to the instructor if he/she moves it into the category where it is visible to the student. It actually isn't visible to the student if you move it here.
Please make Assessment Center visible to the instructor at all times.1 voteClosed - Cold Storage ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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The Assessment Center is not visible to students by default when you create a course. You can test this by going to settings and clicking on the “Student View” link on the right side of the page.
- NetAcad Support
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Assesment
When assessment activated from bulk activation ( default activation) in the assignment area due dates are not getting updated
1 voteClosed - Cold Storage ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Yes, that is correct. The due date for the assessment is not determined from when an assessment is activated. It is something the instructor has the ability to edit through the gear icon next to the chapter name.
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Ability to modify FIB answers
Students are counted wrong for answering 'convergence' instead of 'converged' in an exam in chapter 1; it's a safe assumption there will be more questions similar to this.
The only way to give a student credit for a question like this currently is to manually check their answer, find the total points for the exam, calculate their new percentage, and make that a manual grade in the gradebook.
If an instructor were given editing rights to FIB questions, we could make exceptions for questions like these and retain the automatically generated score (or even better, make the correct answer 'converg*',…
3 votesThank you for your feedback. Cisco has decided not to provide instructors with the ability to modify the assessment FIB questions. However, as an instructor, you can adjust the score in the gradebook at your discretion. Also, you can create a Support Desk ticket to have a particular exam question reviewed by the Assessment Team.
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Hide Assignments
Please, give the instructor the capability to totally hide from student's view un-needed assignments. The Mute assignments option leave them viewable creating confusion.
It would be nice to have the same functionality we have for quizzes.
Besides, let the instructor to default student's view of the assignment page to Date or Type1 voteMaurizio, you will be able to hide assignments from students following these steps:
1. Log in to your Cisco NetSpace account at www.netacad.com
2. Click on the name of the class under your ‘Teach’ section.
3. From the course home page, click on ‘Assignments’.
4. To hide an assignment you will be able to click on the ‘publish/unpublish’ icon (green cloud with check mark = published; gray cloud with X = unpublished). Unpublishing assignments will hide them from student’s view.-NetAcad Support
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Managing activations with CSV
I manage all my classes from a MsOffice application of mine.
Even if I already can create and edit classes and populate students by 1-clic in my excel sheets, I need more integration with Netacad.com.I would like to integrate tests activations --> It could be very easier by exchanging CSV file, like with students lists.
Would you plan it? Many thanks
Marc DELMOTTE, ITQ
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Final Exam
I suggest to add a lot of forms for the final exam in ITE and CCNA R&S and I see the same a questions are repeated so the students are depending on reads online questions without take course work.
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Chapter Exam questions chosen from a random Pool
Instructors should have the following options when activating tests:
• Randomize questions from POOL, to decrease identical tests
• New randomized test on student retake6 votesJohn, thank you for the feedback. By default the ‘Randomize Items’ is selected for exams, if you have multiple forms selected with ‘Randomize Items’ checked then students will receive random forms and the items will be randomized also.
-NetAcad Support
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Adding/delete students to an activated exam
Sometimes we activate an exam only for a few students, but after this, some student wants to be include in this activation.
2 votesYou will be able to go to: Assignments > Exam > Create Advanced Ativation > Students, to select a specific student to create the activation for. Or you can go to Assignments > Exam > View All Attempts > View Activations > Create Activation.
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Competency Based Learning
Would love to create dependencies on exams to provide CBL.
Students have the option to take an "Entrance Exam" for a series of modules... Exam Modules 1-8. If the student Passes (85% or above let's say) the "Entrance Exam", the student would have the option to
keep the exam grade in lieu of going through Modules 1-8 and their exams. Should the student choose not to accept the "Entrance Exam score" the student would be required to go through Module 1-8 materials and Exams and whatever the end grade of those will be it.For example:
Linux Essentials
"Competency 1…3 votesWhen you go into the ‘Modules’ folder they are by default divided into Chapter Groups. You will have the ability to lock modules or create prerequisites for each module as you have described. Although dependencies cannot be created specifically for exams, you can place that exam in a specific module with a specific prerequisite.
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Exam question discussion (Errata)
Instructors should have the option to discuss exam questions from within “assessment viewer” – instead of submitting errata, for poorly worded or incorrect test questions.
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Delete email
Is there a way to delete all the email and not one by one
1 voteIn the ‘Inbox’ you will be able to use Ctrl+click the messages you want to highlight and then move to the trash. If you have many in a row you want to highlight you can click the first one and then hold down ’shift’+click the last message which will select all between those two and then you can move to the trash.
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stop access to assessments from different devices simultaneously
If multiple attempts is enabled in assessment activation, same account can be logged in and perform the test simultaneously on different devices. This issue violates the reliability of the assessments. It is much better if logins are limited to one device only. So same accounts can not be accessed from different devices at the same time.
1 voteWhen you create an ‘advanced activation’ you will be able to select ‘approve additional attempts’ if you are worried about students logging in with multiple devices during an exam.
-NetAcad Support
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Cybersecurity Course EOC Assessment -> default activation change
The default activation should be changed so that students are NOT able to see correct answers.
4 votesVille, you will be able to do this by setting up your own Activation Profile using the Activation Tool.
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