SOLE Exam Settings

Instructors are prompted to manage General exam settings after adding an exam. General settings include mandatory fields, like the exam title and type, and other basics. Instructors can also manage optional Advanced settings to define delivery options and insert special messages.

General exam settings

The General Tab will open automatically after you’ve clicked to add an exam. This is where you will define the basic exam settings, including the Exam Title and Exam Type which are mandatory fields.

The exam type is set to Standard exam by default which means that the exam can only be taken once. Choosing Self-Study means that the exam may be taken multiple times.

If you choose self-study you can use the drop down menu to decide how to grade the exam. There are three options for Scoring: High Score, Last Score, or Average Score. You can also choose the Maximum number of attempts for a self-study exam. This will automatically be set to an unlimited number but you can use the drop down menu to choose between 1 and 10 attempts.

Additional settings, which are optional, are available within the General tab:

• Exam Details allows you to insert a description of the exam, name the Contributor (the administrator that is creating the content), and apply a Category.

• Exam Tags allows you to add tags to your content so that you may easily find content associated with a particular tag. Tags can also aid in your department's curriculum mapping.

  Categories and Tags can be also used for searching and organizing questions in the question bank. For example, you could create a Category named “Chapter One” with the tags “heart” and “brain”. This would allow filtering on all questions from “Chapter One” or filtering on all questions across all chapters related to the “heart” or the “brain.”

• Location Information references where the exam may be taken.

• Calendar Settings allows you to publish the date/time that the exam will be displayed on the Content Calendar and the What’s New list. Duration sets how long the event lasts so that students know what time and how long the exam is scheduled to take.

  This does not affect the actual availability of the exam. Availability settings must be set from the Availability tab.

Advanced exam settings

The Advanced Settings tab contains optional settings that define delivery options and insert special messages.

1. Exam Delivery Settings

   • Question Order allows you to decide how the exam and questions are displayed to students. The Question Order will automatically be set to deliver questions randomly but you can choose to set a fixed question order as well.

     • If you choose a fixed question order you can later reorder them once they are added to the exam but it must be in Draft mode to do so. To do this, enter the exam and click Manage Questions. From there click the Order Questions button on the top of your screen and drag and drop your questions into the appropriate order. You can also use this to move questions between sections.

   • Delivery Method allows for exam questions to be delivered in two ways; one question at a time or the whole exam at once.

   • Enable Calculator is a simple calculator that can be enabled on your exam when necessary. The calculator allows for addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponential calculations, square/square root, and the trigonometry functions cosine, sine, and tangent.

   • Allow Shared Notes will provide users the opportunity to provide feedback regarding a question in the exam. All notes “shared” are submitted when the exam is “finished”. The instructor may review all shared notes along with the questions from exam reporting.

   • Require LockDown Browser feature adds further exam security by locking students’ browsers during the exam. This means that they will not have access to outside content (other web browsers, windows, or computer files) while taking the exam.

     In order for students to take a secure exam the LockDown browser needs to be installed.

2. Student Messages - The messages section gives you the option to define specific exam directions for students and to write a completion message to be displayed once students have finished the exam.

3. Student Reporting Level

   • The Student Reporting Level section allows you to choose reporting criteria. This is the information the user will be allowed to view immediately after completing the exam or on exams that have not been expired. 

     Keep in mind that the more you choose the more the user is able to see. By choosing all of them you give the user the ability to see the exam in its entirety.

   • The following reporting criteria options are available:

     • Show Overall Score

     • Partially Graded Scores

     • Questions

     • Question Point Value

     • Question Title

     • Question Category

     • Question Tags

     • Question Feedback

     • Shared Notes

     • Answers

     By default, the student reporting levels will be displayed with a neutral, orange color. Once either, or both, of the 'Question point value' or 'Answers' options are chosen, the reporting levels will be displayed in red and green, denoting which questions were answered incorrect or correct, respectively.