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This guide will walk you through how to create a paper assessment with Akindi handling automatic question & answer scrambling. Students will complete the assessment in-person with a paper and writing utensil.
Already created your assessment? Check out the Getting Started - Grading Bubble Sheet guide.
If you wish to manage your own question content in Akindi Classic, create an Online Assessment or use Akindi’s Question Importer, please see the relevant article.
Create Assessment
Import Questions
1. Click 'Create Assessment'.
2. Select course from dropdown menu.
Click 'Continue to Question Import'.
3. Select the Word Document (.docx) that contains the questions, and answers, with the answer key bolded or highlighted. Your existing document (without any special formatting) will work!
Click 'Upload'.
4. Enter Assessment Name.
5. Review the imported content to ensure the questions, answers, images, and tables were imported successfully. If needed, you can edit the assessment content as if it were a word document.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our full Import Questions Guide to learn the ins-and-outs of formatting your test question document and importing your assessment into Akindi or learn how to:
Include Images in your assessment
Add Tables to questions and question groups
Group Questions around shared context
Create Matching Questions
Create Written Answer Questions
Assessment Instructions
1. Click '+ Instructions' under the assessment title.
2. Add text and/or images to the assessment instructions.
Assessment instructions can be added to the assessment cover page. Before you download your assessment, you will have the option to create a separate cover page for your assessment. Content assessment instructions will appear on the separate cover page.
💡 Tip: Use SHIFT + ENTER to create line breaks.
Setting or Editing Answer Key
Click on the answer option to create or edit your answer key.
Correct answer(s) are highlighted in green. To deselect, click on the answer option.
For advance marking options, click on the slider icon next to the question
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
See our Advanced Marking Options guide for an in-depth guide on how to customize your grading scheme, including making bulk changes.
Scrambling Questions and Answers
Choose to 'Scramble questions' and/or 'Scramble answers' by clicking the toggles on the left-hand tab
2. Select the desired number of 'versions' from the dropdown menu. Akindi will automatically generates the desired number of versions.
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
To learn more about Answer and/or Question scrambling, see this guide. Including how to pin questions and/or answers for better control over scrambling.
3. Click "Next" to move onto creating bubble sheets.
Customize Bubble Sheets
Select your bubble sheet template based on the number of questions and responses on your assessment from the drop down menu. Akindi will ignore any unused bubbles.
If desired, choose to prefill the bubble sheets with the student names and IDs. This will give you a unique test sheet for each student in your roster.
3. Click "Next" to move to the download step
Download Assessment and Bubble Sheets
Use the drag bars to customize the document margins, font size, and line spacing
Enable the 'Separate Cover Page' toggle to create a separate cover page for each assessment version
3. Click "Download" to download a zip file that contains all the documents as individual PDFs
⭐️ Dive Deeper!
Check out our Custom Test Question Formatting guide for more details
You are now ready to print and administer your assessment.
Check out this printing guide on how to print your bubble sheets and assessment content.
When you are ready to mark your bubble sheets, see our Getting Started - Grading Bubble Sheets guide.