To get started, click the 'Create Assessment' button on the top right hand corner.

Select your course from the drop down menu and give your assessment a title then click "next"

Click "Start with online assessment"

Select the desired way for students to access their online assessment.

Use the toggles to 'Scramble Questions', 'Scramble Answers', or both.

Disable the 'Allow Backtracking' toggle to prevent students for returning to previously answered questions.

Click 'Save'.

Select the .Docx file that contains your questions, answers, and answer keys.

Click 'Upload'.

Akindi will automatically identify answer keys included in your uploaded word document by either bolding, adding an asterisk (*), or highlighting the correct answer for each question.

Once imported, questions and answers can be edited, added, or removed directly in Akindi, as if it were a word document.

Check out the below guides on specific instructions on how to finish setting up your assessment.

Set the times in which the students can access the online assessment.

The 'Activation time' is when students will be granted access to view and start their assessment.

The 'Deadline' is when the assessment closes. All assessments will close and auto-submit (if not already submitted) at the deadline.

'Time limit' is the time allotted to the students to complete the assessment. If you don't want to set a time limit, click the 'Disable time limit' checkbox.

Once you click ‘Save & Continue’ you'll be taken to the 'Online Assessment Status' page. Here you can adjust the time limit, activation time and deadline for selected students that may require accommodations.

Select the student(s) from the table, click on the 'Actions' dropdown menu and select 'Edit Assessment Timing'.

Once you have set up your online assessment, click 'Preview Assessment' to get a sense of what your students will experience when they access their assessment.

Your assessment preview will open in a new tab & you'll need to click 'I agree' in order to see the online assessment you created, along with any settings you enabled.

Each student requires a unique URL to access their Online Assessment which your students will access either via an email from Akindi or by clicking 'Launch Akindi' in your LMS course.

To email all students their Online Assessment link, click 'Email Students Online Assessment'.

You'll have the option to customize the subject and message of the email that is sent to students.

Once you hit 'Send' the emails will be immediately sent to students, but they won't be able to access their assessment until the 'Activation time' has passed.

On the Online Assessment Status page, Akindi will display the assessment status and indicate whether it is unpublished, published, opened or submitted.

While an assessment is unpublished, the assessment details will not be visible to students.

To publish the assessment, Click "Publish Assessment to LMS". You can choose to notify the students by email that an assessment has been published.

For more details on how students access their online assessment, take a look at our guide on the student experience.

To help you manage the process of delivering an Online Assessment, select 'View Online Assessment Status' from your course dashboard at any point after you've set up your Online Assessment.

Here you can keep track of and sort by:

As each student submits their online assessment, the results will populate in Akindi. Click ‘View Results’ on your Akindi course dashboard to access the assessment responses and analytics.

If you've run an Akindi Online assessment, you can export the results by clicking 'Send grades to 'LMS'' or in the following ways from the ‘Actions’ dropdown menu: