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Randomized Assignment GeneratorOctober 29, 2015

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Presenter

Today’s Agenda

• Introduction to Virtual High School (VHS)

• Methodology • Findings • Discussion

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What is VHS?

2003 Ministry RecognitionGrade 11 BiologyInternetOutdated

Textbooks

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Where we are now37 staff 100+ teachers 6000 students

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StudentsTypical Student

- Greater Toronto Area- 1 or 2 Grade 12 courses- Prerequisite requirement for post-secondary or

current high school

Other Students

- International - Teenage professionals- Homeschoolers- Mature students

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AssessmentsTest

• Time limits• Multiple choice• Short answers

Assignments• No time limit• Work towards a product• Delivered on a standard HTML page

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Academic IntegrityIncreased enrollments meant increased instances of Academic Integrity Related issues

Prob

lem

:How do we maintain a well-rounded assessment approach of tests and assignments, while providing each student with a unique task or set of questions?

Solu

tion:Provide different

assignments for each version of the course Re

sultsThis eliminated

some instances of AI for a short period of time. As enrollments continued to increase we realized we need something more.

Solution: Utilize the randomized folders in the quizzing tool to create a unique assignment for every student

The Randomized Assignment Generator

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The Goal: Use the randomized quizzing tool to mimic the assignments that are on the standard HTML page

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Question Bank- Use Multi-Select Questions- All questions require text in the

Question Text Box and at least one Option

- All options are checked as correct- Templates

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Properties- Add/Edit Questions using the same process as a Quiz set up

Assessment Set Up

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Properties- Insert iframe that displays the Assignment Box in the

Introduction section

Assessment Set Up

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Assessment Set Up

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Properties- Insert iframe that displays the Instructions in the Page Header section

Assessment Set Up

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Properties- Insert iframe that displays the Instructions in the Page Footer section

Assessment Set Up

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Restrictions- Change the time limit so students have continuous access to the

assessment

Assessment Set Up

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Assessment- Do not associate the Assessment with a Grade Item

Assessment Set Up

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Submission Views- Change the display of the submission

Assessment Set Up

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Naming Conventions

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Table of Contents

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Results

Curriculum CoordinatorsTeachers

Administration

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Recreating the Generator

• Create randomized folders in the quizzing tool with your assignment questions

• Set up your assessments using the Properties, Restrictions, Assessments, and Submission views explained today

• Set up the quiz under the table of contents

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Emily Douwes

Emily.Douwes@VirtualHighSchool.com

Thank-You