Remote Assessments

1. Identify the learning objective and the Blooms' order of thinking to be demonstrated in the assessment.

2. Determine the criteria and characteristics for which you will review or evaluate achievement.

3. Design the assessment that will best demonstrate the desired outcome.
   

    

1. Learning Objective	2. Characteristics	3. Assessment Types
CREATE	Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole, a new pattern, or structure	Research Study, Composition, Performance, Essay, Business/Organization Plan, Web or Product Design, Proposition or hypothesis, Find a solution, Portfolio
EVALUATE	Make constructive judgements based on criteria and standards	Critique, Product Review, Research Paper, Peer Review, Self Assessment Problem sets
ANALYZE	Break into parts and determine how parts relate or contribute to a structure or purpose	Case Studies, Labs, Reports, Essays, Projects,  Argumentation, Evidence Debates, Argumentation, Perspective
APPLY	Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation	Demonstrate a process, Complete a new task, Prototype, Simulation, Reflection, Presentation, Problem Sets
UNDERSTAND	Construct meaning from instructional messages and content	Short Answer, Compare-and-Contrast, Identify examples or principles True/False, Multiple Choice, Problem Sets, Categorize Reading Summary, Paraphrase, Short Essay
REMEMBER	Retrieve information such as terms, facts, and concepts from memory	Multiple choice, Matching, Fill-in-the-blank, True/False, Self-Check, Label, Identify terminology and facts

Key	Tool
	Canvas Quiz
	Canvas Discussion
	Canvas Assignment

The Canvas Quiz tool allows you to create a test or a quiz that consist of various question types including Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, Fill-in-the-Blank, Numerical, Short Answer/Essay, and more.

See the Canvas Quiz Guides.

Create accessible exam instructions, to ensure all students can understand the information:

• Images: Provide alternate text for images or scanned graphs
  
• Captions: Ensure all videos have captions
• Colors: Do not use color alone to convey meaning, and select colors with high contrast ratios
  

Accommodations:

Give individual students extra time, if appropriate based on accommodation letter from the Office of Students with Disabilities.

1. In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.
2. Click the name of the quiz.
3. Click the Moderate This Quiz link.
4. Locate the student and click the Edit icon.
5. Type the number of extra minutes in the Extra Time on Every Attempt field.

The Canvas Discussion tool is an open message board in which students write a response and expect to see other students' responses.

See Strategies for facilitating Threaded Discussion Forums.

Create accessible discussion instructions, to ensure all students can understand the information:

• Images: Provide alternate text for images or scanned graphs
  
• Captions: Ensure all videos have captions
• Colors: Do not use color alone to convey meaning, and select colors with high contrast ratios

Assignments in Canvas allow instructors to collect files, documents, media, and other forms of student-produced work.

See Strategies for Assignments.

Create accessible assignment instructions, to ensure all students can understand the information:

• Images: Provide alternate text for images or scanned graphs
  
• Captions: Ensure all videos have captions
• Colors: Do not use color alone to convey meaning, and select colors with high contrast ratios

A well-designed assessment may not need proctoring:

The strongest way to prevent academic integrity violations is a well-designed assessment. Proctoring cannot prevent students from making bad decisions under stress and pressured environments. Proctors also do not ask students to think critically, reflect on their learning, and demonstrate their skills to the best of their ability. A well-designed assessment will probe students to use their acquired knowledge, apply their understanding, and use their analytical skills to find a solution.

Characteristics of a well-designed assessment: 

• Perspective: Assignments that require students to read, interpret, and respond to scenarios, a unique problem set, or provide a different perspective
  

• Random Question Pool: Randomized sets of questions, so that information sharing is insufficient to document every possible combination of questions

• Scaffolded: Assignments that build on existing work and demonstrate improvement over time

• Choice: Questions that allow students to choose between several options

• Authentic: Questions that allow students to reflect on their process, a personal challenge, or an interest in a specific topic

• Creative: Assignments that allow students to express themselves using video, a teaching method, original artwork, oral presentation
  

• Integrity Reminders: A requirement to sign academic integrity pledges, which remind students of the implications of cheating

• Timed: Either in the form of a strict time limit (e.g. Quizzes) or tight submission windows (e.g. Quizzes or Assignments)

Accommodations for students with disabilities must be provided for final exams. Instructors should receive an Authorization for Accommodation (AFA) letter via email for any student requiring accommodations.

Additional information may be found on the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) website.

When Proctoring is a strong option: 

• The exam is multiple choice or short-answer in an online format
  

• The assessment is timed and password-protected

• The exam window can remain open for 48 hours or more (wider for larger class sizes)

• The course has a history of academic misconduct that needs to be mitigated

• Proctoring has been identified as a need early in the term, and implemented in the course at least three to four weeks prior to the assessment

Learn about Proctoring Services supported by the campus.

Alternative options: 

If you determine that proctoring is not the appropriate solution, but you want to incorporate additional safeguards against cheating, consider the following tools: 

• Turnitin: Run written work through Turnitin.com, to check for plagiarism and appropriate citation

• Respondus: Incorporate Respondus Lock-Down Browser, which prevents students from opening other browser windows or tools on the computer on which they are taking the assessment.

Note: Always be prepared to provide students with alternate mechanisms to submit final assessments, whether proctoring or not. Be mindful of the requirements of final assessments and design your assessments so that they provide students options for alternate means of expression. Please contact the Digital Learning Hub for additional help with implementing alternative mechanisms.