1. Creating an Online Assessment
To get started, click the 'Create Assessment' button on the top right hand corner.
Select 'Online Assessment'.
Select Course and enter Assessment Name.
Assessment Delivery
Select the desired way for students to access their online assessment.
With 'Deliver via LMS', students will click 'Launch Akindi' from their LMS course shell to access their assessments. Students will be authenticated through the LMS and will be prevented from accessing their assessment outside of the LMS.
'Deliver via Email' will email each student a unique and secure link to access their online assessment.
Test Question Display
Select how you would like the test questions to be displayed to the students.
One question at a time:
You will upload Docx of your test questions (including any images and tables) to Akindi.
The Students will be shown the questions one at a time.
You have the option to scramble questions, answers, or both, and prevent students from back-tracking to previously answered questions.
Display Full PDF:
You will upload a PDF of your test questions to Akindi.
The PDF will be displayed unedited to the students alongside a digital bubble sheet.
Students will have access to all questions and bubbles at once.
I don't want to upload test questions
You will not upload your test questions to Akindi.
Students will just be presented with digital bubbles to submit their responses.
💡 This article will focus on 'One Question at a time'
Visit this article for instructions on using the 'Full PDF' display.
Visit this article for instructions on using the 'No Test Questions' display.
Scramble Questions and Answers
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 & Continue'.
2. Import Questions
💡 For more information about formatting your test word document for importing into Akindi, visit this help guide.
Click 'Import questions'.
Select the .Docx file that contains your questions, answers, and answer keys.
Click 'Upload'.
Questions and answers can be edited, added, or removed directly in Akindi, as if it were a word document.
3. Enter Answer Key
💡 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.
Enter the correct answer for each question by clicking the corresponding bubble.
Click the 'options' icon to access advanced marking option like editing the grading scheme, question weight, or create bonus questions.
Advanced Marking Options
Advanced marking options allow you to customize how the test question is graded.
Exact Mark: (The default grading scheme)
The student has to select all correct responses to be awarded credit for the question.
Best for single-select questions.
Partial Mark:
The student will be awarded partial credit for each correct response, up to the full weight of the question.
Best for select-all-that-apply questions.
Either-Or:
The student will be award full credit for select any of the correct responses.
Best for select multiple correct responses.
💡 Change multiple questions at once?
Use the Bulk Changes feature to quickly change the grading scheme and/or point value for multiple questions at once.
4. Scheduling the Online 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.
5. Set custom schedules for students
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'.
6. Preview Assessment
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.
7. Publishing the Online Assessment
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.
Online assessment via Email
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.
Online Assessment via LMS
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.
8. Monitoring Student Progress
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:
The delivery status of online assessment emails
The status of the assessment (whether published or unpublished)
The number of questions answered by each student
The amount of time each student has spent on their assessment
Which students have opened or submitted their assessments
9. Viewing & exporting the results
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:
Download CSV
Download Question Breakdown CSV
Email Students their grades (not currently available for Question Scrambling assessments)