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Bank of questions for ITE V 5.0 final exam
The final exam for ITE V 5.0 has only 60 questions, the answers to all of these are freely available online in multiple places. In order for this exam to have any integrity it needs a bank of questions. The previous version of ITE had three exams that could be randomly allocated. The same or better needs to be incorporated into version 5.
1 voteHello Krissi,
Preventing exams from being posted on the Internet is a never-ending battle. There are 20,000 instructors and 1 million students with access to data that can transmit around the globe at the speed of light. We understand your desire for test banks. We do author a fairly large bank of questions for an entire course. Most courses have 500-600 items authored between the pretest, quizzes, chapter exams, finals, practice finals, and certification practice. However, we specifically design questions at different levels depending on their usage to help the students learn in a progressive fashion. Curriculum-embedded interactive activities, build up to quizzes, which provide the foundation for chapter exams. Chapter exams build up to checkpoint and final exams just as labs and PT activities build up to the Hands-On Skills Assessment. Finals usually contain integrative, more summative tasks. Moving items around that are designed for different purposes can get…
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Tests activations whith ACTIVATION TOOL
*> Why is it impossible to activate PT and all these practice exams?
Please, 'ungrey' them.
*> The 'Manage Activations' view is not useful. I click 'Create Activations' just to receive an efficient view of what is already activated.
*> Please, add the buttons 'Re-enable Incomplete Assessments' and 'Deactivate' to the listing.
Thank you for your collaboration
Marc DELMOTTE, ITQ2 votes -
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Cisco Instructor
Hey i suggested CISCO Academy Administrator to build a database of questions & answers so that instructor can freely setup end chapter exams and final exams of each module. This could access of different question answers on Internet.
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Exclude graded student from the assessment list
When activate an assessment exclude already graded student from the assessment list.
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Activation of assessment for a planed period of time
Example: Activate the assessment on three different dates.
It is not possible now, because you have to wait the expiration of the first activation period.1 vote -
exams cert optional with no return
Make exams for practice for certificaction with no return option, similar to certification exams.
It will be great have the possibility to add this function during the activation.Regards
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CCNA R&S in Portuguese Final Exam Default language
In Portuguese version of CCNA R&S, Brazilian Portuguese is NOT included in Final Exam Default language. So we must use the advanced activation and remember to click Brazilian Portuguese version of the exam. (Final Exam is not included in Activation Profile).
It would be nice if:
1) Bazilian Portugues was included as default final exam language,
2) We could config Final Exam defaults in Activation profile.2 votes -
Add the availbe from and to dates in the Assignment groups
In the Assignments grouping it would be nice to also see the dates for availability as well as teh DUE dates so you can see if availability needs to be extended.
Thank you.
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Activating a exams to groups of Selected student at one Time
we cannot activate a exam to a group of student at a same time, let's say, if there are 50 student's and i need to enable the same exams for all those 50 student at this condition, I need to enable a exam one by one for each student,
This is diffcult,It would be easy
if we can select a group of student simultaneously thosewho are going to attend the same exam at same time and activate their exams in a single click time1 voteHello Manoj,
Thank you for your feedback.
For instructors who have a valid need of customized activation windows, NetAcad recommends the creation of different activation windows for different groups of students. For example:
-Create a final exam activation window from 8-4 for students A, B and C
-Create a final exam activation window from 12-8 for students X, Y and ZMichael
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Teachers should be allowed to override the score for test questions.
I had a student answer a question wher the answer was show vlan, but his computer auto corrected it to show clan. I should be able to change the points for this question just like I can with quizzes.
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display assessments stadistics
In the previous platform, as an instructor I could see how many times my student took an exam, before activeting it. Now, when I clic in "manage activations" there is a table showing all of that info, but it's empty, until I activate the exam. That way I don't know if the student has reached the limit or no.
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Remove Course Feedback as a Prerequisite for Final Exam
After setting up the final exam for students taking the first module this week and getting them mentally prepared to take the exam, I found that they couldn't take it until they'd completed the course feedback.
Can we have this removed until the course is actually complete. Make it a prerequisite for moving on to the next module if necessary. I'm still teaching and believe that they've just gone through the feedback quickly to get to the exam.
9 votesHi Jon and others,
Thank you for your suggestion. At this time Course Feedback will remain a prerequisite for the Final Exam.
Thank you,
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add capability to set due date when activate an assessment/assignment
Could you add the ability of schedule due date in the same time we set assessment?
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Preparing Certification Exams 200-120 : Automatic creation of synthetic tests
When a student has finished a module - with a quote of, for example, at least 75 % - or when I decide it, I would like to automatically create a new test composed of all the questions the student missed through all the chapters exams.
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Test Bank for Exam integrity
You need to develop a bank of 50 questions per chapter. Pull 10 of those questions for quiz. 20 of those questions for Chapter exam and then use 5 from each Chapter on the final.
You add or replace one question in each chapter every 3 or 4 months. Make sure the newest reworded question is selected for the final.
I have already seen final exams from the new material being posted in forums.
This would give us new fresh finals every semester and would greatly reduce cheating.
For someone to cheat they would have to memorize all 550 questions…
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Smart exam buidler
I would recommend developing such app in order to minimize the probability of having repeated questions and / or copied questions . The app will change text, names and may be some numbers every time the question is created
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Mejorar la traducción de los examenes nueva versión
Por favor mejorar las traducciones de los exámenes de capítulos en la nueva versión, ya que la compresión del texto es bastante difícil por las deficiencias actuales. Adjunto un ejemplo. Gracias.
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Access to selfenrolled Courses
As an improvement of the program, I would suggest that instructors can see the information regarding selfenrolled Courses. I would like to see, if my students are enrolled in Cybersecurity, and what score they earned at the pretest and final exam.
Also in the list view of "Manage Users" I would like to see the courses in which the students are enrolled.
1 voteHello Gerold,
With self-enroll courses, this is not something we are planning to do, but if anything changes, we will re-open your suggestion.
Thank you
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PT SBA's - Weighted Score
We should be able to have the option to use Weighted Scores instead of Binary Scores in the PT SBA's. Student's are successfully completing large portions of each section on the PT SBA's and get 0 for the entire section. We use the SBA's as a final practical exam and the student's are failing them miserably because of the Binary Scoring only option....not fair!
1 voteHello Tony,
PTSAs are designed for practice and diagnostic feedback to the student. They are intended to prepare the student for the final Hands-On Skills Assessment. The scoring structure that is presented is partially scored. We structure the scoring to highlight areas where configurations may not be complete or meet the functional requirements that were specified in the assessment. For example, if a customer requests setup of their Internet for their home office and the service technician sets up the correct IP address but does not include or incorrectly configures the default gateway, then the interface will not come up and the requirement to setup service was not fulfilled.
In earlier stages of learning, we are more flexible with scoring. In the example above, when the student is first learning IP addressing, we would score the interface address separately from the gateway to isolate problems and misconceptions. However, when the…
