Add student names to a class using copy and paste

 QUESTION

How do I add student names to a class without typing them all in individually?

ANSWER

You can copy and paste them from a spreadsheet.

See:

YouTube video showing copy and paste

Export your data

HOW CAN I EXPORT MY DATA FOR USE ELSEWHERE?

Need to perform custom calculations on class grades?

Want a record of student results to stored offline?

Looking for an archive of all the exams you've designed?

After signing in, look for Export near the bottom of the teacher menu. Either class grades, or the exams you've designed, can be exported. Choose specific classes or exams, or select all. Click Prepare to create a .zip file, then Download to save the file on your own computer.

• Grades are in the .csv format, easily imported into any spreadsheet program such as Excel or Google Sheets.
• Exams are in .html format. Open in a web browser to print, save as .pdf, or edit in your word processor of choice.

Share an account between teachers

 HOW CAN MULTIPLE TEACHERS SHARE A SINGLE CLASS?

A class can only belong to a single teacher, accessed through a single teacher login / email address. However that teacher can share their account with other teachers who have their own separate ThatQuiz logins.

Look for Share in the menu.

After opening the Share page, click on the "Account" button which lets you share your account with other teachers. Type an email address of an existing ThatQuiz account holder, and click "Add". Next, you can choose how much control the other teacher should have over your account.

The teacher you share with will be able to control your classes as if they were you, but is limited to the menu items you enable.

To open your account, the teacher you share with should log in normally to ThatQuiz using their own email address and password, then click "Share" and "Account" and look for the shared account under "Donors".

Observe your students while they test.

 QUESTION

What does Observe do? The page doesn't show anything.

ANSWER

Observe is for observing your students while they test. It shows only students for the currently selected class. If you have "Class One" selected you won't see students from other classes. And you won't see anything unless a student is actively testing, entering answers to an assigned quiz for a grade. Students who are simply practicing won't appear.

TRY IT OUT

Try clicking "Observe" while students for the selected class are actively completing an assigned test. You should all of their work in progress. Use the slider at the top of the page to zoom in or out. It looks like this:

Move a test back into the design area

 QUESTION

After a test is assigned to a class, how can I move it back into the design area to edit it again?

ANSWER

When you assign your own designed test to a class, a copy is made. The original test can still be edited in the design area.

However, if you import a test designed by another teacher directly to your own class, you don't have a copy of that test in your design area. If you want to edit the test questions yourself that test needs to be copied into your design area. Here's how:

1. Check a single test of type "Multiple choice", "Short answer", "Matching" or "Slides".

2. Click the "Share" button.

3. Choose "*Design" as the target for sharing in the "--Make copy for--" drop down box.

4. Presto! The test is copied into your design area where you can edit it more easily.

What's the expiration date mean?

QUESTION

What does the expiration date mean?

ANSWER

The expiration date and time defines the moment at which students will no longer be allowed to start a test. Students who load the test before the expiration time can begin testing. Students who load the test after the expiration time are denied the opportunity to test.

Important: The expiration time only affects whether a student can begin testing or not. It does not force a student to finish testing. If the expiration time is 12:00 today, and I start testing at 11:59, I am free to continue working on the test after 12:00. There's nothing to stop me from leaving the test open and finishing it later that afternoon or even the next day, unless a time limit has been set.

Most teachers use expiration dates with time limits defined. The expiration date sets a cutoff date after which students are no longer allowed to begin testing. The time limit makes sure the student finishes the test within a given amount of time.

If you have a fifteen minute test which you need all students to complete by 12:00 try this strategy:

1. Set the expiration time for 11:45.

2. Set the time limit at 15 minutes.

3. If you have autosave on (recommended in order to save the work as students progress) also choose the option "Clock never pauses". This means that if a student leaves the test and comes back to it later, the clock continues running while the student is away. However, if the test has expired in the meantime, they won't be able to reload the abandoned test.

Time zone of an assigned quiz

QUESTION

What time zone is used on the website for the quizzes?

ANSWER

The time zone currently set on the teacher's computer when the teacher sets a quiz's "assigned" date/time is used to determine the exact starting time, or expiration time, of a quiz.

For example:

If a teacher is in Hawaii, and the teacher's clock is set for the Hawaiian time zone at the time the teacher defines a quiz date and time, for example 8:00 AM on November 1, then that date and time is interpreted to be 8:00 AM on November 1 in Hawaii. Thus students in other time zones, such as the US East or Europe would not be able to begin testing until it was 8:00 AM in Hawaii. A student who is in London does not have access to the quiz at 8:00 AM in London, but must wait for the time to be 8:00 AM in Hawaii.

The same is true for quiz expiration times. If a teacher's computer clock indicates the teacher's time zone to be "Los Angeles" when setting an expiration time of 23:59 on December 31, the quiz expires when the time is 23:59 on December 31 in Los Angeles. A student in London would still be able to complete the quiz on the early morning of January 1, since the time in Los Angeles is used to determine the date.

WHAT TEACHERS SEE

All users see a quiz's assignment and expiration dates according to the time zone reported by the browser wherever they are currently using their computer or phone. If a teacher working in New York defines a quiz's expiration to be 9:00 PM on January 1, but then travels to Paris, the expiration date the teacher sees will change to 3:00 AM on January 2 (provided that the teacher's device's time zone has been adjusted to Paris). Nevertheless, students in New York will continue to see an expiration date of 9:00 PM on January 1. That's because 9:00 PM in New York is the same moment in time as 3:00 AM in Paris.

WHAT IF A STUDENT COMPUTER'S CLOCK OR TIME ZONE IS WRONG?

ThatQuiz ignores student computer clocks and time zones. The only data point which affects an assignment or expiration date and time is the time zone of the teacher's computer at the moment the date is set.

WHAT IF A TEACHER'S COMPUTER CLOCK IS WRONG?

ThatQuiz generally trusts its own clock over any clock on a user device. Nevertheless it is recommended to maintain a reasonably correct time on your device. Most computers and phones do this automatically.

WHAT IF A TEACHER'S TIME ZONE IS WRONG?

ThatQuiz trusts the time zone reported by the teacher's device regardless of whether it is right or wrong. If a teacher's computer or phone has an incorrect time zone configuration, for example reporting Tokyo when in fact the teacher and the teacher's students are in San Francisco, then the assignment and expiration times of quizzes will be incorrect for San Francisco.

WHAT IF I'M STILL WORRIED ABOUT QUIZZES APPEARING AT THE CORRECT TIME?

You can always manually control a quiz's appearance. Set a quiz's assignment date to "Not yet". It will be hidden from students. Then, at whatever moment you want to begin testing, set its assignment date to "Today". This makes the test immediately available to everyone regardless of any time zone or clock inaccuracies.

WHAT IF I'M STILL WORRIED ABOUT QUIZZES EXPIRING AT THE CORRECT TIME?

You can always manually expire a quiz. When you want a quiz to expire, set its expiration date to "Yesterday". This means that no new students will be allowed to load and begin the quiz, regardless of inaccuracies with any computer's time zone or clock. Students who have already begun the quiz are allowed to continue the quiz even though it is now expired.