Self-assessments
are a formative assessment tool that enables instructors to provide students
with a series of questions and immediate feedback for responses. Question types
available are similar to quizzes; however, student responses are not graded and
self-assessment questions do not have a point value or difficulty level
indication. The omission of numeric evaluation enables students to make
reflective learning and course material comprehension their main priorities
during a self assessment. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a self
assessment in MyFIRE.
1. Navigate
to the desired course in MyFIRE.
2. Select instructor tools at the top of the page in the navigation bar.
3. A
drop-down menu will appear, select course admin.
4. Locate
and select self-assessment from the assessment section.
5. When
the page refreshes, select new self assessment.
6. Title
the self-assessment in the name field.
7. If
desiring to visually organize the self-assessments within the self-assessments
tool, select the category drop-down menu.
a. If needing to add a new
category, select add category.
b. A pop-up window will
appear. Type the title of the category in the name field.
c. Select save at
the bottom of pop-up window.
8. Determine
if hints should be enabled by selecting the allow hints checkbox.
9. Determine
if the questions within the self-assessments should be shuffled by selecting
the shuffle questions at the self assessment level checkbox.
10. Next,
determine if a page header or footer should be enabled during the
self-assessment by selecting the on or off options above the page header
and page footer text boxes. They are disabled by default.
a. If the page header
and/or footer have been enabled, enter the desired message to the students
within the MyFIRE textbox. For further instructions, refer to the utilize the MyFIRE
editor tutorial.
11. Then
select save and close at the bottom of page.
12. When
the page refreshes, the newly created self-assessment will be listed on
the self-assessment tool page.
13. Select
the drop-down arrow to the right of the self-assessment title.
14. A
drop-down menu will appear. Select edit.
15. When
the page refreshes, select add/edit questions, listed above General, to
add questions to the self-assessment.
16. When
the page refreshes, determine how the self-assessment questions should be added
by selecting either new or import.
a. New- This option allows
for the manual creation of individual sections, question pools, and/or
questions. The question types available are true and false (T/F), multiple
choice (MC), multi-select (M-S), written response (WR), short answer (SA),
multi-short answer, fill in the blanks (FIB), matching (MAT), ordering (ORD),
arithmetic (2+2), and significant figures (x10).
b. Import- This option allows
users to import questions from a file or from the Question Library.
i. Upload a File- If selected, a
pop-up window will appear. Either drag and drop or select browse files
to upload a CSV file that includes formatted questions. Note: For MyFIRE to
recognize the questions, the questions have to be formatted correctly according
to the MyFIRE Template CSV.
ii. Browse Question Library- This option allows
users to import questions that have been created or added to the question
library within the course. If needed, refer to the benefits of the question library tutorial for
more information and to add questions to the question library.
1. If selected, the page
will expand. (1) Search and locate the desired questions from the
available options by (2) filtering, sorting, and selecting the
(3) checkbox on the left of the desired questions, sections, or question
pools.
2. Then select import at the bottom of the screen.
17. The
newly added questions will appear on the self-assessment question page.
18. Once
done creating and/or adding questions to the self-assessment, select done
editing questions in the top right corner of the screen.
19. When
the page refreshes, select save and close at the bottom of the
page.
