It is a good idea to initially select “Do not show students any results”; after all of the students have submitted the test, you may choose another selection on the View Results screen.

• If you are allowing students to view their test grade, it is only available during the semester the course is active; to make results extend beyond the end of the course, click the link “Test results for this course are available to students through..” from the prior screen.
• For S/U tests, Cornell University considers a 70% (C-) a satisfactory grade, this default value may be changed to any number between 1 and 100. Do not check the S/U checkbox if you wish students to be graded using the standard grading scheme (A,A-,B+…F).

Do NOT allow students to print the test.

• Checking this option creates a blank-page-version of the printed test so that, when a student clicks the print button on their browser, the blank page will print instead of the test.
• Just like protecting images, there is always a work around. In this case, nothing prevents the test-taker from using PrintScreen, or using a browser that doesn’t obey this type of command (a style sheet declaration). Likely, for our students, it’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth, depending on the length of the test.

Add this mock test to the self-study modules and allow all vet college students to use it.

• Checking this option will make this test available to all students from the home page menu entry “Self-Study Modules”.
  • Note: this option is not available for graded tests

Randomize questions on student tests

• Checking this option will randomize the order of all questions on your test. Each student will receive their test in a different order. Each student’s randomized order will be saved, so that, if they save-up-to-now and return to their test at a later time, it will appear in that same order.
• Note, questions are randomized within their own section, so you may maintain groups of questions by creating distinct sections. All non-question items (ie, sections, text, media and horizontal rule) will appear in the same order you enter them.
• When correcting the exam, you may view a student’s randomized test on the ‘Individual Student’ screen. From this screen, you may opt to view by the ‘fixed order’ (the order as entered by the instructor). All other test results screens will appear in the ‘fixed order’.
• Like test editing, once at least one student has begun the test you will no longer be able to change this option.

Do not include students’ responses on the emailed test receipt.

• Upon submittal of a graded test, students are automatically emailed a “test receipt”. This email reassures students that their responses were correctly entered into the database. However, there is nothing to prevent one student emailing their receipt to another student. Instructors may opt to not include responses on the emailed receipt.

Do not allow access to any other eTests between the time student launches this test and submits this test.

• This can be used in conjunction with the Lockdown browser to restrict students to only one test at a time.

This is a “Branching Type Test.”

• Branching tests allow faculty to create “case”tests where, depending on the student’s response, the test may branch into different sections of questions. Branching tests allow faculty to test a student’s decision-making skills in a more realistic, outcomes-based scenario.