Welcome to Akindi!
This guide will walk you through how to run a paper assessment with Akindi handling automatic question scrambling. Students will complete the assessment in-person with a paper and writing utensil.
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.
1. Launch Akindi from Canvas
a) Sign into Canvas and select your desired course.
b) If Akindi is not yet enabled on your course shell...
Go to 'Settings' then click 'Navigation'.
Find Akindi in the list of disabled items. Click the 'Options' icon and select 'Enable'.
Click 'Save' at the bottom of the page.
c) Click 'Launch Akindi' then 'Launch Assessments'.
Akindi will open in a new browser tab and will automatically create your course and synchronized your class roster from Canvas.
For a step by step guide on how to create your Akindi Assessment, see the "Getting Started with Akindi" guide.
12. Exporting Test Results
a) To Send the grades to your Canvas Gradebook:
Click the ‘Send Grades to Canvas’ button.
Select the desired grade item you wish to send the grades to.
Click ‘Send"
b) There are a number of other ways to export the results using the 'Actions' dropdown menu.
Download Responses CSV: Spreadsheet containing all students' grades.
Download question breakdown CSV: Spreadsheet containing question item analysis.
Email students their grades: Sends each student a secure link to access their individual student report.
Download Student Reports: A PDF containing each students corrected test sheet.
Upcoming Feature Release
Akindi is continuously evolving to make assessment creation, delivery, and analysis easier and more powerful. Check out our release schedule to see what’s available now and what’s coming soon.
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