Blocks are sets of questions regarding a specific topic or topics, defined by a filter, which may be associated to evaluations and assessed separately, based on a certain evaluation weight.
Question blocks can be added, edited and deleted, and its versions can be managed.
The deletion option in the Topics window allows you to disregard specific questions. For example, by adding a topic to the block, all specific topic questions with a certain level of difficulty can be disregarded. Alternatively, all topic questions with subtopics can be added, while only disregarding one of the subtopics.
Assuming that an evaluation has multiple blocks, all weighing 1, and there are blocks that have only one question and others that have more questions:
Therefore, the student gets the percentage that is proportional to the number of questions that they get right in the block (considering the total number of questions in the block).
Therefore, there may be different grades for the students who got the same number of questions wrong in an evaluation, but questions in different blocks. If students got the same questions in the same blocks wrong, the grades would be the same. However, the number of right answers in an evaluation does not mean students get the same grade, since the ones who got the lower grade may have gotten the only question within a block wrong, and obtained 0% in the block, whereas others got 50% of a block wrong, because there were two questions in this block.
Example:
A block weighs 1: if there are 10 questions in this block, each question is worth 0.1. If that same block has only 2 questions, each question is worth 0.5.
Therefore, if a block weighs 1 and has only 1 question, it is worth 1 (100% of the block). That is why it is worth more than the questions in a block that has several questions.
01. In the main menu, place the mouse over Evaluations.
02. Click Blocks.
03. View existing question blocks.
01. Click New.
02. Enter the question block title.
03. In Topics, click Add to add topics and define the question filter to be added to the block.
04. In the pop-up window, define the information to filter the questions to be added to the block.
Action
Type of action to be performed. Available options are:
Root topic
Topic tree containing the existing questions available for use. You have to find and select the topic of your choosing.
Level of difficulty
Difficulty range to be considered when filtering topic questions to be added or deleted from the question block.
Tags only
Tags to be considered when filtering questions to be added to or deleted from the block.
05. Click on Add.
You can add more than one question topic to select them later.
To delete a topic added to the block, simply click the Delete icon, to the right of the line corresponding to the topic.
06. In Questions, define the ones to be added to the block.
All questions
When it is selected, all topic questions will be added to the block and displayed in the evaluation to which this block will be imported.
Some selected questions
When it is selected, only the selected questions will be added to the block and displayed in the evaluation to which this block will be imported.
Some random questions
When it is checked, only a certain number of topic questions will be added to the block and randomly displayed in the evaluation that uses that block. Upon selection of this option, a field appears where the number of topic questions to be added to the block must be entered.
Quantity
Number of random questions to be added to the block and displayed in the evaluation that uses that block. This field is only displayed when you select the option Some random questions.
07. Select the questions to be added to the block if the ‘some selected questions’ option is selected.
08. Click Saveto only save the block; or Release version to both save and release the block version.
01. In the Blocks window, select the block whose version will be released.
02. Click Edit.
03. Click Release version, in the upper right corner of the window.
This option is only displayed for blocks that have a version under editing.
04. In the pop-up window, enter the description of the version to be released for use.
05. Click Release version.
When you click this option, the released version becomes the block’s current and effective version, available for evaluations.
In addition, a notification is sent to evaluation-creating users informing them of the recently released version.
01. In the Blocks window, select the block for which to create a new version.
02. Click Edit.
03. Click Create version, in the upper right corner of the window.
04. Apply the block changes for the new version.
05. Click Save.
01. In the Blocks window, select the block whose version will be canceled.
02. Click Edit.
03. Click Cancel version, in the upper right corner of the window.
This option is only displayed for blocks that have a version under editing, because you can only cancel a version that has not yet been released.
04. In the pop-up message, click Yes to confirm the cancellation of the version under editing; or No if you want to cancel the action.
01. In the blocks window, select the block to be edited.
02. Click Edit.
03. Change the information of your choice. For more details about the displayed fields, see Create block.
04. Click Save to confirm; or Cancel if you want to discard all changes.
01. In the Blocks window, select the block to be deleted.
02. Click Delete.
03. In the pop-up message, click Yes to confirm deleting the block; or No if you want to cancel the action.
Please note!
This documentation is valid as of the 1.6.1 update. Previous updates may contain different information than what you see on your platform.
