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Yes it is. When sending results to parents you can add their emails as:
parent1@email.address.com, parent2@other.email.com
ANSWER
You need to login to the account which will receive the class lists.
Click "New Class" and click "Import".
There's an option to import students from another thatquiz account.
You will have to enter the login and password of the account from
which you're importing.
This will import ALL CLASSES from the other account. It will import
names only. No grades or tests are imported.
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Yes.
For multiple choice click on the small letter "i" in italics after the
question box and before the first answer box.
For matching questions the "i" (for image) is above the set of matching pairs.
For slides there is an Image button.
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1. Click "New Class"
2. Click "Import"
3. Copy the list of names from elsewhere on your computer and paste
them into the box.
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Try using the latest version of the Firefox browser, which has some
nice printing controls.
See this page for help:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Printing%20a%20web%20page
especially the section "Print window settings"
and the option "Shrink to Fit Page width".
It also helps, in Firefox, to right click on the chart and select
"This Frame->Print" in the menu which appears.
For some charts it can help to also check "Print background colors" in
the printing controls.
If you want very precise printing, you can also take a picture of the
screen, called a "screen shot".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
Then edit the image to show exactly what you want, and print it on a full page.
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You can email test results to parents.
Click on the test name in the "See Tests" list. This takes you to a
page for editing test options.
If students have already tested, there should be a link called "Send
results" in between the configuration section and the list of
questions. It has a mail icon next to it. Click the "Send results"
link. This takes you to a page where you can enter parent email
addresses and send results for a test via email directly to parents.
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If the scores were more than 24 hours old, then you can try this:
1. Download a CSV file of all existing grades for safekeeping.
2. Delete the entire class (really).
3. Create a new class.
4. Click Import.
5. Choose to "Restore a class which was previously deleted".
This restores the class from the last nightly backup. It will include
all grades recorded before today. However, if any tests were
completed today, those grades are not recoverable, since backups occur
once every 24 hours, at night.
ANSWER
Tests which you design yourself in the "Design" section (multiple
choice or matching for instance) may be made public if they contain at
least 10 questions. Edit the test and choose the Public option before
saving.
ANSWER
Have you tried the "slide" editor?
Click on the Design link in your menu and use the Slide button.
You'll get a question editor which is suitable for complex equations,
and for fractions.
In general, we don't recommend pasting from Microsoft Word. The
pasted text might look OK in Internet Explorer but in any other web
browser the results are less predictable.
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You are correct that there is no way to skip a problem.
We would suggest that if a problem must be skipped, a student can
enter zero as the answer, and then return to the problem later by
navigating backwards.
An "unanswered" question in the grade report is a question which
the student did not answer because he/she ran out of time.
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Web pages can be tricky to print.
The page break feature allows you to force a
page break so that the next question will start on a new page. So, if
you know a problem is going to get cut in half, then set the page
break right before it so it begins on a new page. The only certain
way to make sure everything is printed continuously is to put every
problem on its on page, by clicking every page break line. Or, if you
see that three problems fit on a sheet of paper, but the fourth
problem gets broken up, then click on every third page break line. We
can't do better than this for you, because printing depends on many
other factors out of our control, things like which web browser you
are using and its internal printing system, and the paper size which
feeds into your printer.
ANSWER
Blank grades are NOT taken into account when computing the average.
But they can still take the test anytime, when they get back to
school, or from home.
ANSWER
Many spam filters accidentally classify our email messages as spam
and filter the messages out.
If the email address is a school email address, you can try
configuring the mail server or firewall to accept all messages with
"thatquiz" in the sender's name.
Or, if students are using their own personal email addresses, they
can create a rule so that messages from thatquiz are never marked as
spam.
The BEST solution, however, is probably to switch to class home
pages. Every class created in thatquiz has a url which allows student
access to their assigned quizzes. If you click "Edit class" the URL
is displayed near the top of the page. You can configure this page so
that students must enter passwords to access their quizzes, and make a
link to the thatquiz class page from your school web site.
ANSWER
To edit a grade, click on an individual grade in regular "View" mode.
This should open detailed grade information in another window or tab.
Next to the score there is a small link you can click called [Edit]
which allows you to change the student's score.
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When the student tests, as long as they enter some text in the essay
box, the question is marked as correct and they are given full credit.
However, after the grade is recorded an "Essays" link will appear on
your grades page. Click on the link, and you can do a detailed review
of each essay and award / take away points based on the student's
response. You can also write your own comments on the essay, which
the student can view later via the class home page, if you allow
students to view their results on that page.
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If students have begun testing, you cannot change any of the
questions. But if student's haven't tested yet, you can make changes.
In your list of tests, click on the test name to edit it. You can
drag any bad question into the trash can (appears when you start
dragging). You can also check the checkbox next to the question and
then the delete button.
Finally, to add more of your own content to an existing test, you
should design a new small test with the question(s) you desire, assign
it to the class, and then merge the two tests to create a new test.
ANSWER
Yes you can.
The way to add email addresses is to use the Notify button on the See
Tests page to notify students of a new test. This page allows you to
add or modify student email addresses, before sending the notification
email.
ANSWER
Yes you can.
When looking at the slide you want to copy, choose the Select Tool
(immediately underneath the Hand in the toolbar). Select everything
in the slide by dragging across all the elements, or even better by
holding the shift key down while you click on the slide. This should
select all elements. Now click the "Copy" button.
Click CANCEL to exit the test without saving (or save it if you
want). Open a different Slides test (existing or new) and navigate to
a blank slide. Press the "Paste" button.
This method works for most browsers. If it doesn't work for you,
tell us the name and version number of the browser you are using, then
try again in Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
This has not happened to me before. What did I do wrong? How can I
make sure this does not happen in the future?
ANSWER
Take a deep breath.
If a student manages to take the same test more than once, the first
grade is the only grade which is saved.
Even if the student's name doesn't immediately disappear from the
list, future attempts on the same quiz will not be registered unless
you, the teacher, manually remove the first grade saved from the
grades table.
If a student finishes a test, and the grade is sent, thatquiz.org
always checks if there is an existing grade for that student on that
exam, and if there is already an existing grade, the newer grade is
simply discarded.
So... if a student thinks he/she is being clever by taking the test
again -- let them! They'll get some extra practice, a chance to
correct their mistakes, but it won't change the result you have in
your grades table.
If you are still worried about this, you can click on the test name
to change its configuration. There are some options which may be of
interest:
1. Show number complete when testing (students won't know how many
they're getting right/wrong as they test)
2. Show grade alone when finished (students won't know which answers
they got right/wrong even when they finish)
3. Do not show results when finished (students won't even know what
score they received).
ANSWER
Sure you can delete all grades.
After clicking "edit" on the grades page, you can select an entire row
or column by clicking on a student name or test name.
Then use the delete button.
However, you can also create a new class, and choose "Import students
from existing class..." so you won't have to enter their names all
over again. Then delete the previous class.
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It may be that the messages are filtered out before they even reach
the student's spam or junk mail folder.
We do SEND the messages, always, but we know that messages are often
blocked before reaching their recipients.
It may serve you better to use the "Class home page" (find the link
on your Edit Class Page). In conjunction with student passwords, this
provides a very convenient way for students to begin testing, in a
secure way.
ANSWER
You can sort the tests by clicking on the column name (test name,
assigned date, test type, etc).
You can also change the order of appearance by changing the
"Assigned" date of the test, since this is the default sorting order.
Tests which are most recently assigned appear at the top of the list.
To change the assigned date click on the test name in the list, which
brings up many options for editing the test. However, be advised that
if you choose an assigned date in the future, the test will not appear
on a student's list on the class home page until the date arrives.
ANSWER
You need to write the test in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft
Office or Libre Office (free program for all types of computers).
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
In any major spreadsheet program, one of the file saving options is
"CSV" which stands for Comma-Separated-Values. This is a basic data
exchange format which is readable and understandable by many different
programs / computer operating systems.
In the spreadsheet, you want one question per row of the spreadsheet,
with the question text in the first column, the correct answer in the
second column, and any other answer options in additional columns.
Save as a .csv file, and upload that file in the multiple choice section.
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1. First assign a designed quiz to a single class.
2. Select the assigned quiz and click "Share" to copy the quiz for
all other classes.
ANSWER
The best thing to do is to download all of the grades to save on your
home computer so that you always have them.
On the grades page there is a small link near the top left marked
"CSV". CSV is a common file format which can be imported by almost
any spreadsheet program on any computer.
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Almost certainly the problem is that some content is being blocked by
a firewall or filter at your school or in your school district.
Your network must also accept all content from:
rackcdn.com
which is the content delivery network for thatquiz.org
ANSWER
When you are in the grades table, click on the test name at the top
of a column. This opens a grade report for that particular test,
showing all student results. At the top of the report (underneath the
"Email results" link) you'll see something like:
Grades: 22
Average: 87
Where grades is the number of grades, and average is the average
score. If you look at a grade report for a single test, then the
average is the class average for all students who have tested.
It is also possible to embed audio clips but you have to host the
audio files yourself (you can't upload them to thatquiz.org). If you
are comfortable doing this, place a link to your externally hosted
audio file within a multiple choice test or other test you design.
You'll need an up-to-date web browser. Try Google Chrome.
ANSWER
The grades menu only shows grades for a certain time period.
Look at the top left of the page. There should be a box that says
"Last 1 Month". Change it to "All Grades".
