Alphasmart AS 3000 User Manual
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User’s Guide
Integrated classroom quiz solution including quiz design, delivery, automated grading, reporting, and analysis
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
User’s Guide
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Contents
Chapter 1
Overview of AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System ...................................1
Introducing AlphaQuiz ........................................................................ 1
AlphaQuiz software....................................................................... 2
AlphaQuiz workflow ...................................................................... 2
AlphaQuiz terminology ................................................................ 4
Creating quizzes ................................................................................... 6
Applying restrictions .................................................................... 6
Editing questions.......................................................................... 7
Reviewing questions on an AlphaSmart device preview........... 7
Administering, grading, and managing quizzes ................................ 7
Sending quizzes to AlphaSmart devices ..................................... 8
Administering quizzes .................................................................. 8
Printing and saving quizzes.......................................................... 8
Retrieving students’ responses ................................................... 9
Viewing a response set................................................................. 9
Grading quizzes............................................................................. 9
Assigning points ........................................................................... 9
Printing reports ........................................................................... 10
Exporting quiz scores ................................................................. 10
System requirements......................................................................... 10
Installing AlphaQuiz .......................................................................... 11
Chapter 2
Creating Quizzes ...........................................................................13
Introducing QuizDesigner ................................................................. 13
Starting QuizDesigner ................................................................ 13
Using the menus and toolbar ........................................................... 14
File menu..................................................................................... 14
Edit menu .................................................................................... 16 iii
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Question menu ............................................................................ 16
Window menu (PC only) ............................................................. 18
Help menu ................................................................................... 18
Creating a quiz .................................................................................... 21
Composing questions ........................................................................ 23
Saving your quiz .......................................................................... 26
Composing true/false questions ................................................ 27
Composing multiple choice questions ..................................... 29
Composing short answer questions .......................................... 31
Composing essay questions....................................................... 33
Editing questions ............................................................................... 35
Selecting advanced quiz options ...................................................... 35
Controlling student password requirements............................ 38
Protecting the integrity of a quiz................................................ 39
Marking a quiz as “finished” ....................................................... 40
Modifying quiz prompts ..................................................................... 41
Spell-checking a quiz.......................................................................... 43
Rearranging questions ....................................................................... 44
Dragging questions between quizzes ........................................ 44
Deleting questions ...................................................................... 45
Viewing the AlphaSmart devices display.......................................... 46
Exporting a quiz .................................................................................. 47
Printing a quiz ..................................................................................... 50
Creating a question library ................................................................ 52
Chapter 3
Administering Quizzes to Your Students ......................................... 55
Introducing AlphaQuiz SmartApplet................................................. 55
What is a SmartApplet? .............................................................. 55
Changing font size .............................................................................. 56
Taking a quiz ....................................................................................... 59
Selecting the correct quiz ........................................................... 59
Entering passwords and other identifying information........... 61
Quiz navigation............................................................................ 63
Finishing a quiz................................................................................... 66
AlphaQuiz User’s Guide
Special situations during test-taking ............................................... 68
Accessing teacher options ......................................................... 69
Chapter 4
Grading Quizzes and Printing Reports ...........................................75
Introducing QuizManager.................................................................. 75
Starting QuizManager................................................................. 75
Using the menus and control bar ..................................................... 76
File menu..................................................................................... 76
Edit menu (Macintosh only) ...................................................... 78
Communication menu................................................................ 79
Window menu (PC only)............................................................. 80
Help menu................................................................................... 80
QuizManager control bar ........................................................... 82
Sending a quiz to connected AlphaSmart devices.......................... 83
Deleting quizzes from connected AlphaSmart devices .................. 86
Retrieving student responses ........................................................... 88
Deleting students’ responses ........................................................... 90
Turning on power to AlphaSmart devices........................................ 91
Turning off power to AlphaSmart devices........................................ 92
Assigning question points ................................................................ 92
Grading quizzes .................................................................................. 94
Printing reports ................................................................................. 97
Printing a grading sheet ............................................................. 98
Printing a corrected quiz report............................................... 102
Printing a quiz summary report ............................................... 104
Printing a statistical report ...................................................... 106
Exporting student quiz scores ........................................................ 107
Appendix A
Frequently Asked Questions .........................................................111
Appendix B
Troubleshooting ...........................................................................117
Appendix C
Glossary .....................................................................................119
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Appendix D
Contact Information .................................................................... 123
Index ......................................................................................... 125 vi AlphaQuiz User’s Guide
Chapter 1
Overview of AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet System
Introducing AlphaQuiz
AlphaQuiz
®
SmartApplet
®
System automates the administration of classroom quizzes, letting you design and store quizzes on a computer, administer the quizzes on a classroom set of AlphaSmart devices, and retrieve the results to your computer for automatic grading and reporting.
Important: In this guide, the term AlphaSmart device refers to both
AlphaSmart 3000s and Neos. It does not refer to the Dana line of products made by AlphaSmart.
Because teachers and students use different components of the system, AlphaQuiz operates on both a desktop computer and on
AlphaSmart devices. The task of creating, administering, and managing quizzes with AlphaQuiz is as follows:
1. The teacher creates quizzes using a desktop computer, then downloads a particular quiz into students’ AlphaSmart devices.
2. Students take the quiz on the AlphaSmart devices.
3. The teacher retrieves quiz responses to the desktop computer, then grades them and prints reports.
Overview of AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System 1
Introducing AlphaQuiz
AlphaQuiz software
The software you’ll use to write, give, grade, and manage tests is divided into three functions, as follows:
QuizDesigner
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet Students use this quiz-taking application on
AlphaSmart devices
QuizManager
Use this application on a computer to compose quizzes
Use this application on a computer to download quizzes to devices, retrieve and grade responses from devices, assign question points, compile statistics, and print reports
AlphaQuiz workflow
In general, you’ll follow a logical series of tasks in order to create, administer, and grade quizzes. Once you’re comfortable with
AlphaQuiz, you can jump into the process at any point.
Creating, administering, and grading a quiz
The steps below summarize the entire quiz process from beginning to end.
1. Use QuizDesigner
™
on your computer to create and save a new quiz.
2. Connect AlphaSmart devices to an AlphaHub
®
(or connect devices one at a time to your computer with a direct USB cable).
3. Use QuizManager
™
on your computer to select the quiz you want students to take.
4. Set a quiz access password (if desired).
5. Send the quiz to students’ AlphaSmart devices.
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Introducing AlphaQuiz
6. Students take the quiz using their AlphaSmart devices.
7. When finished, students connect AlphaSmart devices to an
AlphaHub (or to your computer one at a time using a direct USB cable connection).
8. Use QuizManager on your computer to retrieve student responses.
9. Create a new response set document, or integrate student responses into an existing response set, and save the document.
10. QuizManager automatically grades true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions. (Short Answer questions cannot be auto-graded unless you enter one or more correct answers when you create the quiz)
11. Grade essay questions and any other ungraded questions manually in one of two ways:
•
•
Onscreen
Use a printed grading sheet, which you print as a report from
QuizManager
12. Enter scores for manually-graded questions into QuizManager.
13. Print Corrected Quiz reports and hand out to students.
14. Print a Quiz Summary report for your teacher records.
15. Print a Statistics report for your teacher records.
Overview of AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System 3
Introducing AlphaQuiz
AlphaQuiz terminology
The test-creation, test-administration, and test-management functions of AlphaQuiz software, as well as the AlphaSmart devices and desktop computer applications all have their own names.
Sorting out this terminology can help simplify the task of learning and using the system.
Term
Quiz
AlphaSmart devices
Desktop computer
AlphaHub
What it means
Any test or quiz students take using AlphaSmart devices.
AlphaSmart 3000 and Neo devices (but not the Dana line of products) made by AlphaSmart.
The PC or Macintosh computer that a teacher uses to create and manage tests.
A device that connects up to thirty AlphaSmart devices used to send and receive information to and from a teacher’s desktop computer. AlphaHub is available as part of AlphaSmart’s SmartOption™ line of products.
AlphaQuiz
System
Software system for designing, administering, grading, and managing quizzes.
SmartApplets Applications installed on the AlphaSmart devices, such as AlphaQuiz, AlphaWord, and Calculator.
AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet
QuizDesigner
Application used for taking quizzes on an AlphaSmart device in the AlphaQuiz system.
A software application in the AlphaQuiz system used for creating quizzes on a computer.
QuizManager A software application in the AlphaQuiz system used to send tests to students’ AlphaSmart devices, retrieve responses, grade tests, and print reports using your computer.
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Introducing AlphaQuiz
Term
Question
Answer
Response
Response set
Question remarks
Teacher comments
Author comments
Quiz options
Admin password
Teacher
Options
What it means
A quiz question, in the form of true/false, multiple choice, short answer, or essay, created in
QuizDesigner.
A correct answer, or one of several possible answers, to a question defined in QuizDesigner.
A student’s answer to a quiz question.
A collection of student responses to questions on a particular quiz, retrieved to a desktop computer.
Text notes stored with a quiz question to provide expanded information to other teachers or users of the quiz about the question or its answer.
Text notes that can be associated with a graded quiz question and printed on a corrected quiz.
In QuizDesigner, notes added on the Basic tab of Quiz
Options to provide general information about a quiz.
Parameters that can be set for a quiz in QuizDesigner to determine what information a student must enter before taking the quiz, what prompts appear for questions, and how quizzes are completed.
In QuizDesigner, a password used by the teacher or quiz administrator to control the deletion of quizzes from AlphaSmart devices, and access to the Teacher
Options area of a quiz.
A special access area within a quiz that allows a teacher to manipulate quizzes and responses on individual AlphaSmart devices.
Overview of AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System 5
Creating quizzes
Creating quizzes
You can use AlphaQuiz to create a quiz for almost any subject. For example, you can design math quizzes with calculation or reasoning questions, science quizzes with multiple choice or short answer questions, and history and English quizzes with essay questions.
Quizzes or tests can be short or long, simple or complex, written for any student who can use a keyboard—from grade school to high school. You’ll be able to reuse them for more than one class, revise them for future use, share them with other teachers, and edit them later or as you go along.
You create quizzes on your computer using QuizDesigner, part of the
AlphaQuiz system. Quizzes are stored in your computer until you release them for student use. In the course of designing a quiz, you have the option of defining a password to maintain test-taking security within the classroom and from class to class.
Applying restrictions
As you create quizzes, you may want to put restrictions on how your students use their AlphaSmart devices during the quiz. QuizDesigner provides a number of ways to do this:
• You can prevent students from using the Calculator SmartApplet during a quiz.
• You can prevent students from using the device’s spell check function during a quiz.
• You can require use of an access password and student passwords to maintain test security and make sure that only assigned students take the quiz.
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Administering, grading, and managing quizzes
Editing questions
QuizDesigner uses familiar word processing editing functions to help you edit questions as you compose (such as cut, copy, paste, undo, and so on). You can also open a saved quiz for editing. (See the caution note on page 26 about saving over existing quiz files.)
In addition, you can export the text of any quiz (both questions and possible answers) into your desktop computer’s word processing application for more elaborate editing, such as spell-checking and grammar-checking.
Reviewing questions on an AlphaSmart device preview
As you compose a test, QuizDesigner allows you to see how your questions will look to your students as they view them on their
AlphaSmart devices (see the example on page 46). This is useful for getting a sense of how questions flow and how your questions and possible answers will appear onscreen. Take note that your students can change the font size of the quiz questions on the Neos. See
“Changing font size” on page 56 for more information.
Administering, grading, and managing quizzes
QuizManager is the most sophisticated portion of the AlphaQuiz software. QuizManager is where you control the release of quizzes and retrieve and track student responses. QuizManager makes the grading process speedy and automated. You can assign different point values to questions if you like. You can also compile statistics such as averages, means, most frequently missed questions, and score distributions.
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Administering, grading, and managing
Sending quizzes to AlphaSmart devices
Because quizzes are composed and stored on your computer, you need to send a quiz to your students’ AlphaSmart devices before they can take it. This is a quick process using the AlphaHub, which allows you to connect up to thirty AlphaSmart devices at once to your computer. You can also connect directly to individual AlphaSmart devices using a USB cable.
When the AlphaSmart devices are connected to your computer, the
QuizManager control window allows you to send or remove quizzes from them, retrieve or delete student answers, and turn off the
AlphaSmart devices.
Administering quizzes
Once you send a quiz to your students’ AlphaSmart devices, the students can use the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet to take the quiz.
Students select the correct quiz from a list of available quizzes, enter their names and the passwords and information you’ve required, and proceed through the questions.
• True/false questions require students to type in T or F.
• Multiple choice questions require students to type in the letter corresponding to the correct answer.
• Short Answer questions allow students to type in a response of eighteen characters or fewer.
• Essay questions allow students to write a prose response to the question. You can set a maximum allowable number of words.
Printing and saving quizzes
At the end of a quiz, students can print the quiz and their responses, or export them to a file in AlphaWord. Both of these options are controlled by teacher settings within the quiz.
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Administering, grading, and managing quizzes
Retrieving students’ responses
When students finish a quiz, they again connect their AlphaSmart devices to the AlphaHub or direct USB cable. From there, you can retrieve their responses to your computer.
Once a class has finished taking the test, you can administer it to other classes, revise it, or archive it for future use.
Viewing a response set
The Student Response window in QuizManager lists your students by name and class for a given quiz, and shows each student’s score and whether the student’s responses have all been graded.
Grading quizzes
QuizManager lets you grade tests quickly and accurately, and true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions can all be graded automatically. The Grading window lists student names for a particular quiz. You can view summary results for selected students, as well as the full text of each question, the correct answer (if one was entered when the quiz was created), question remarks, and student responses. Using the Tab key on your computer to skip between data fields allows you to rapidly grade student responses, and a
Comments field provides a space for your notes to the student regarding each question.
Assigning points
If you want to change the number of points assigned to questions,
QuizManager allows you to do so. The Question Points window lets you scroll through the text of all the questions on a selected quiz and enter points for each question. The program automatically converts that to a percentage of total points.
Overview of AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System 9
System requirements
Printing reports
One of the most powerful functions of AlphaQuiz is its ability to print reports and compile test information. In addition to printing corrected quizzes, you can find out the average, mean, and high and low scores. You can see how many times students missed a given question (which can be very useful for critiquing your own tests).
Report types include
• Grading sheet (lets you grade quizzes on hard copy)
• Corrected quiz report (lists questions, correct answers, and scores for handing back to students)
• Quiz summary report (lists student names and scores)
• Statistical report (shows averages, means, high-low scores, and so on)
Exporting quiz scores
QuizManager lets you export quiz scores for use in a computer-based grade book application. You can create a text file containing one student name and quiz score on each line. You can have
QuizManager match the names entered by your students to a roster of names exported from your grade book application.
System requirements
AlphaQuiz requires the following components:
• One of the following USB-capable computers:
•
•
Macintosh running OS 9.0 or higher
PC running Windows 98 (Second Edition) or higher
• AlphaSmart Manager 2 software (for installing the AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet on AlphaSmart devices)
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Installing AlphaQuiz
• One to thirty AlphaSmart devices
• An AlphaHub, if you are using AlphaSmart devices in a group setting. An AlphaHub is AlphaSmart’s multiport management device to which you can connect a Windows or Macintosh computer running AlphaSmart Manager, and up to thirty
AlphaSmart devices. An AlphaHub lets you exchange quizzes and responses with multiple AlphaSmart devices simultaneously.
The Help system for QuizDesigner and QuizManager requires that you have a web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Internet
Explorer, installed on your computer.
Installing AlphaQuiz
This guide assumes you have already installed the AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet on your AlphaSmart device(s), as explained in the
AlphaQuiz 3.0 Installation Instructions (included in the download file).
This section describes how to install AlphaQuiz applications
(QuizDesigner and QuizManager) on your computer. Instructions vary slightly between Macintosh and PC computers.
To install AlphaQuiz applications (QuizManager and
QuizDesigner) on a Macintosh:
1. Browse to the location where you unstuffed the AlphaQuiz download file.
2. Double-click the QuizDesigner Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. When the Installer finishes, it displays a message that says the installation was successful.
3. Click Quit. The Installer opens a QuizDesigner window.
4. Close or minimize this window or move it out of the way. You’re returned to the location where you unstuffed the files.
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Installing AlphaQuiz
5. Double-click the QuizManager Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. When the Installer finishes, it displays a message that says the installation was successful.
6. Click Quit, then if prompted, click Restart to restart your computer.
To install AlphaQuiz applications (QuizManager and
QuizDesigner) on a PC:
1. Using Windows Explorer, browse to the location where you unzipped the AlphaQuiz download file.
2. Double-click the QuizDesigner Setup.exe file.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions. When the QuizDesigner installation finishes, you’re returned to the Explorer window.
4. Double-click the QuizManager Setup.exe file.
5. Follow the onscreen instructions.
6. When the QuizManager installation finishes, close the AlphaQuiz
System window (or Windows Explorer, if you used that method to install the applications).
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Chapter 2
Creating Quizzes
Introducing QuizDesigner
AlphaQuiz allows you to write your own tests and quizzes using
QuizDesigner software on your desktop or laptop computer. You can create, edit, and maintain quizzes, then download them to your students’ AlphaSmart devices.
QuizDesigner offers four question types:
• True/false
• Multiple choice
• Short answer (up to eighteen characters)
• Essay (you can set a maximum number of words)
You can create a new quiz, revise one you’ve used before, edit questions as you go along, rearrange the order of questions, and print quizzes for hardcopy administration.
Starting QuizDesigner
You’ve likely already installed QuizDesigner on your computer. If you haven’t, install it now by following the instructions in “Installing
AlphaQuiz” on page 11.
Creating Quizzes 13
Using the menus and toolbar
To start QuizDesigner:
X Do one of the following:
•
•
Macintosh: Locate and open the QuizDesigner folder on your computer and double-click the QuizDesigner icon.
PC: Choose Programs > AlphaSmart > QuizDesigner >
QuizDesigner.
Using the menus and toolbar
The menus and keyboard shortcuts in QuizDesigner (as well as the tool bar on the PC version of QuizDesigner) allow you to move quickly through creating and handling your quizzes.
File menu
Commands on the File menu allow you to name, save, open, print, and export quiz files.
Note: QuizDesigner provides familiar word processing keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-C or a -C for copy, Ctrl-V or a -V for paste,
Ctrl-S or a -S for save, and so on.
File menu
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Using the menus and toolbar
File command
New Quiz
Open Quiz
Close
Save
Save As
Quiz Options
Export
Print Setup (PC)
Page Setup (Mac)
Print Preview (PC)
Exit (PC)
Quit (Mac)
Keystroke
Ctrl-N (PC) a -N (Mac)
Ctrl-O (PC) a -O (Mac) none (PC) a -W (Mac)
Ctrl-S (PC) a -S (Mac) none
Ctrl-I (PC) a -I (Mac) none none
Ctrl-P (PC) a -P (Mac) none none a -Q
What it does
Opens a new quiz document
Allows you to open an existing quiz
Closes the quiz you’re working on (prompts you to save if you’ve made changes)
Saves the quiz you’re working on
Allows you to name and save a new quiz
Allows you to put limits on quiz-taking
Allows you to export a quiz
(in text format) to another application
Takes you to a standard print window
Prints a selected quiz
Shows onscreen how the quiz will look when printed
Quits application
Creating Quizzes 15
Using the menus and toolbar
Edit menu
Commands on the Edit menu allow you to perform standard editing tasks, such as cutting, copying, or pasting text.
Edit menu
Edit command
Undo
Cut
Copy
Keystroke
Ctrl-Z (PC) a -Z (Mac)
Ctrl-X (PC) a -X (Mac)
Ctrl-C (PC) a -C (Mac)
Ctrl-V (PC) a -V (Mac) none
What it does
Allows you to undo your last action
Cuts selected text
Copies selected text
Paste
Clear (Mac)
Select All (Mac) a -A (Mac)
Pastes text that’s been cut or copied
Clears all text in any text field you are in
Highlights contents of displayed window
Duplicates a selected question
Duplicate a -D (Mac)
Ctrl-D (PC)
Question menu
Commands on the Question menu allow you to choose question types, change the order of questions, and edit questions you’ve
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Using the menus and toolbar already composed. It also gives you the ability to see how your questions will look on your students’ AlphaSmart devices.
Question menu
Question command
Add True/False
Add Multiple Choice
Add Short Answer
Add Essay
Edit Question
Keystroke
Ctrl-T (PC) a -T (Mac)
Ctrl-M (PC) a -M (Mac)
Ctrl-B (PC) a -B (Mac)
Ctrl-E (PC) a -E (Mac) none
Remove Question
Shuffle Question
Order
Show AlphaSmart
View
Delete key none none
What it does
Lets you compose a new true/false question
Lets you compose a new multiple choice question
Lets you compose a new short answer question
Lets you compose a new essay question
Opens the Edit window for a selected question so you can make changes
Deletes a question from a quiz
Randomly rearranges questions in a quiz
Displays questions as they will appear on AlphaSmart devices
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Using the menus and toolbar
Important: If you’ve shuffled the order of questions, you can restore the previous order by choosing Edit > Undo. But you must do it right after shuffling or you will lose the original order.
Window menu (PC only)
Commands on the Window menu allow you to arrange windows on the screen and select open documents.
Window menu
Help menu
Commands on the Help menu offer context-sensitive assistance while you’re creating a quiz.
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Using the menus and toolbar
To get help while using QuizDesigner:
X Choose Help > QuizDesigner Help.
Help menu (Mac) Help menu (PC)
Help command
About Balloon Help
(Mac only)
Show Balloons (Mac only)
QuizDesigner Help
About QuizDesigner
(PC only)
Keystroke none none none none
What it does
Provides Macintosh system help
Lets you show or hide help balloons
Shows a list of Help topics, from which you select the topic you want
Shows version, copyright, and contact information
QuizDesigner Help displays a Help topic related to the current window in your default browser. You can select other topics from the topic list in each selection.
Note: You must have a browser installed on your computer in order to use QuizDesigner Help. When you choose Help,
QuizDesigner searches your computer for your default browser; if it can’t find a default browser, it then searches for Internet
Explorer or Netscape. If the browser is not currently running,
QuizDesigner launches it when you access Help. If the browser is already running, the Help topic replaces the current page in the browser window.
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Using the menus and toolbar
QuizDesigner toolbar (PC only)
The QuizDesigner toolbar contains shortcut icons for accomplishing some of the same commands in the various menus.
Toolbar icon
QuizDesigner toolbar (PC only)
What it does
Opens a new quiz document
Opens an existing quiz
Saves current quiz
Allows you to write a new true/false question
Allows you to write a new multiple choice question
Allows you to write a new short answer question
Allows you to write a new essay question
Displays information about the QuizDesigner application
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Creating a quiz
Creating a quiz
The Quiz Questions window keeps track of questions as you create them. It numbers each question, shows the question type, and displays as much of the question text as possible.
Question number
Question type
Question text
Quiz Questions window
The Quiz Capacity indicator bar at the bottom of the screen shows you how much space is left in the quiz. It reflects the type, number, and length of questions you compose.
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Creating a quiz
To create a new quiz:
1. Start QuizDesigner on your computer. The Quiz Options window appears with the Basic tab selected.
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2. Type a name for the quiz in the Quiz Name field. This is the quiz title that appears on the AlphaSmart devices. (This field is required.)
Important: If you don‘t enter a name for the quiz, it appears in the window’s title bar as “untitled.” Be sure to give your quizzes names that will be meaningful to your students.
3. Type your name in the Quiz Author field.
4. Type a password in the Admin Password field. (Passwords can be from one to six characters long.) Using a password preserves the
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Composing questions security of student answers, and prevents unauthorized removal of the quiz from AlphaSmart devices.
Note: The administrative password, or “admin password,” also controls access to AlphaQuiz administrative functions on each individual AlphaSmart device (see page 68). It can also be used to override a student-created password. This can be useful if a student must exit and re-enter a quiz, but forgets the password he or she has created; in this case, you can type the admin password to complete the student’s login to the quiz.
5. Finally, enter any notes or comments about the quiz.
6. Click OK when you’re finished.
Composing questions
Once you’ve named a quiz, you can begin writing the quiz questions.
(The Advanced and Prompts tabs in the Quiz Options window are explained later in this manual, on page 35 and page 41.)
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Composing questions
There is no fixed maximum number of questions, though there are limits to the overall size of each quiz. Size limits are affected by the number of questions, the length of question text, the length of answer text, and the maximum length setting for essay question responses. The Quiz Capacity indicator bar provides an indication of how much space remains for quiz questions.
Each question has three main parts:
• Question text : Use this field at the top of each question window to type the text of your question.
• Question-specific selections : Use this mid-screen section to refine the parameters of your question.
• Question remarks : Remarks can include reminders, notes, or references about a question. You may want to enter the expected correct answer, acceptable alternate answers, or references to a text (scene and line of a play, for example). Your students can’t
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Composing questions see these remarks during the quiz, but you can include them on the Corrected Quiz reports.
Question text
Question parameters, such as answers, text restrictions, and so on
Question remarks
There are four types of questions, as described in the following table.
Question type
True/false
When to use this question type
Use true/false questions when you want to compose questions whose statements are unequivocally right or wrong.
Multiple choice
Use multiple choice questions when you want to compose questions with brief, defined possible answers, one or more of which is correct.
Short answer Use short answer questions if you want students to answer with a brief word or phrase. This question type allows students a maximum of eighteen characters in their answers.
Essay Use essay questions when you want students to write a response of one or more paragraphs.
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Composing questions
There are four ways to add a question to a quiz:
• Use the Add Question button in the Quiz Questions window.
• Select the appropriate Add command from the Question menu.
• Use a keyboard shortcut.
• Click the icon for the question type you want on the
QuizDesigner toolbar (PC only).
Saving your quiz
You should treat a quiz document like any other computer document—save your work at regular intervals. The first time you save a quiz document, you’re prompted for a file name. You can give it the same name as the name you gave earlier (in the Basic tab of the Quiz Options window), but this name is the name of the actual file and can’t be seen by your students. The name you provide when you save the quiz is appended by a .qzz file extension.
Important: If a quiz is currently downloaded to one or more
AlphaSmart devices, do not save over the file containing that quiz until all student responses have been retrieved.
If you need to modify a quiz that has been downloaded to the
AlphaSmart devices, be sure to use Save As to create a file with a new name. (QuizDesigner automatically prompts you to do this.) If you open a quiz document that you saved previously and make changes
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Unless you are sure that this quiz is not in use on one or more
AlphaSmart devices, you should select Save As to create a new file containing your modified quiz document.
Composing true/false questions
In creating true/false questions, keep in mind that students will only be able to type T or F to answer the question, so you should word your question so that it can be answered in that manner (rather than
Yes/No, for example).
To write a true/false question:
1. With your named quiz open (see page 21), click Add Question in the Quiz Questions window.
2. Select True/False question in the Add Question window.
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3. Click OK.
4. Type the text of your question into the Question Text field at the top of the True/False Question window.
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5. Select the correct answer in the Answer section.
6. Type any comments you want to make about the question in the
Question Remarks field at the bottom of the window.
Note: Use this field to type in reminders, remarks, or references that pertain to that question. The comments aren’t visible to students, but you can opt to include them on Corrected Quiz reports.
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7. Click OK when you’re done. The question appears in the Quiz
Questions window listing.
8. Repeat steps 1 through 7 to compose more true/false questions.
Composing multiple choice questions
Multiple choice questions can have between two and six answer choices, and one or more may be designated as correct answers. A student can select only one answer for questions with one correct answer, but can select as many answers as are available on questions with multiple correct answers.
To write multiple choice questions:
1. With your named quiz open, click Add Question in the Quiz
Questions window.
2. Select Multiple Choice question in the Add Question window.
3. Click OK.
4. Type the text of your question in the Question Text field at the top of the Multiple Choice Question window.
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5. In the Answers section, type in at least two answer choices. You can enter a maximum of six possible answer choices. If you enter fewer than six answer choices, leave the bottom choices blank
(the student will not see these).
6. Check one or more of the appropriate checkboxes to indicate the correct answer(s).
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Note: If you select more than one checkbox to indicate multiple correct answers, a student must select exactly the same answers in order for the question to be automatically graded as correct.
If you want to allow partial credit on these questions, you will need to grade them manually.
7. Type any comments about the question in the Question Remarks field at the bottom of the window.
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8. Click OK when you’re done. The question appears in the Quiz
Questions window listing.
9. Repeat steps 1 through 8 to compose more multiple choice questions.
Important: As you’re composing questions, keep an eye on the Quiz
Capacity indicator bar on the Quiz Questions window. Make sure you’re not composing too many questions for the capacity of the quiz
(quizzes are limited to a size that will fit on the AlphaSmart devices.)
If you exceed the capacity of a quiz, a warning message appears, giving you the chance to shorten the current question.
Composing short answer questions
Short answer questions can accept typed answers up to eighteen characters long.
To write a short answer question:
1. With your named quiz open, click Add Question in the Quiz
Questions window.
2. Select Short Answer question in the Add Question window.
3. Click OK.
4. Type the text of your question in the Question Text field at the top of the Short Answer Question window.
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5. In the Answer section of the window, do one of the following:
• If you want QuizManagere to automatically check students’ answers, type the correct answer in the blank field in the
Answer section. Automatic grading of Short Answer questions requires an exact match between the student’s response and the correct answer for the response to be counted as correct.
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•
If there are several possible correct responses to your short answer question, type a comma between each correct answer.
If you don’t want the question automatically graded, leave this field blank.
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6. Select any of the following options to limit student’s responses.
The first two selections apply to automatic grading, while the third restricts allowable student input:
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Case Sensitive. Capitalization in the student’s answer must match capitalization in the correct answer.
Case Insensitive. It doesn’t matter whether students use capital or lower case letters in their answers.
• Only numbers for student input. The answer only allows the number 0–9, the minus sign (–), and the period (.).
7. Type any comments about the question in the Question Remarks field at the bottom of the window.
8. Click OK when you’re done. The question appears in the Quiz
Questions window listing.
9. Repeat steps 1 through 8 to compose more short answer questions.
Composing essay questions
Essay questions allow students to give a prose answer. You can set a maximum number of words allowed; essay questions must be graded manually.
To write an essay question:
1. With your named quiz open, click Add Question in the Quiz
Questions window.
2. Select Essay question in the Add Question window.
3. Click OK.
4. Type the text of your question in the Question Text field at the top of the Essay Question window.
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5. In the Maximum answer length field, enter the maximum allowable number of words you want your students to write for this question.
6. Type any comments about the question in the Question Remarks field at the bottom of the window.
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7. Click OK when you’re done. The question appears in the Quiz
Questions window listing.
8. Repeat steps 1 through 7 to compose more essay questions.
Important: As you’re composing questions, keep an eye on the Quiz
Capacity indicator bar on the Quiz Questions window. Make sure you’re not composing too many questions for the capacity of the quiz. Question length and essay answer length also affect quiz capacity.
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Editing questions
Once you’ve created and saved a quiz, you can edit it at any time.
This is useful for adapting quizzes for different classes.
To edit an existing quiz question:
1. In the Quiz Questions window, double-click the question you want to edit. A window for that question appears.
2. Rewrite or edit the question text, type in different possible answers, change case requirements, or edit the teacher comments.
3. Click OK when you’re done.
Selecting advanced quiz options
AlphaQuiz provides a range of controls to provide security and flexibility in what students can do during a quiz. These controls are available on the Advanced tab in the Quiz Options window.
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Selecting advanced quiz options
The following table summarizes the advanced options.
Option
Require students to mark quiz as finished
Block access to all other
SmartApplets during quiz
(Available only when
“Require students to mark quiz as finished” is selected)
Block access to Calculator
SmartApplet during quiz
(Available only when
“Require students to mark quiz as finished” is selected)
Block access to Spell
Check in AlphaWord during quiz
(Available only when
“Require students to mark quiz as finished” is selected)
What it means
Check this option to prevent students from using AlphaSmart devices for anything else until quiz is finished.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to move between an unfinished quiz and other AlphaSmart device functions.
Check this option to prevent students from using other SmartApplets while taking a quiz.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to use other SmartApplets present on the AlphaSmart devices (such as AlphaWord) while taking a quiz.
Check this option to prevent students from using the Calculator SmartApplet while taking a quiz.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to use Calculator while taking a quiz (unless “Block access to all other SmartApplets during quiz” is selected).
Check this option to prevent students from using Spell Check while taking a quiz.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to use Spell Check while taking a quiz (unless “Block access to all other SmartApplets during quiz” is selected).
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Option
Require students to enter a quiz access password
Function: Helps prevent unauthorized students from seeing quiz questions
Require students to create a student password for their quiz answers
Function: Helps keep a student’s responses private
Require students to enter a class number for their quiz answers
Function: QuizManager groups responses by class number
Allow students to export their quiz answers to an
AlphaWord file
Function: Using the send key, students can place their complete quiz in an
AlphaWord file
Allow students to print their quiz answers from the AlphaSmart devices
What it means
Check this option to require students type a quiz-specific password when entering a quiz. Type in the required password (six characters or fewer).
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to enter a quiz without a password.
Check this option to require students to enter a personal password before starting a quiz.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to take a quiz without a personal password.
Check this option to require students to type in a number assigned to their class.
Remove the check mark from this option to allow students to take the test without entering a class number.
Check this option to allow students to put a read-only copy of the quiz questions and their responses into a selected AlphaWord file.
Remove the check mark from this option to prevent the transfer of quiz to an
AlphaWord file.
Check this option to allow students to print the questions and answers to their quiz.
Remove the check mark from this option to prevent students from printing their quiz.
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Selecting advanced quiz options
To set advanced options:
1. Click the Advanced tab on the Quiz Options window.
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2. Select or deselect the options you want to be in effect during the quiz (you can revise these selections any time during editing).
3. Click OK.
Controlling student password requirements
There are two types of student passwords that apply to a quiz. One prevents unauthorized students from opening a quiz; the second provides privacy for a student’s responses. You control the
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Options window.
Password type
Access password
Student password
Where it appears
When student first opens a quiz
After student types in first and last name
Protection it offers
Only those students with the password for that quiz can open it
Prevents other students from seeing a student’s quiz responses
How to require this password
Check the box in Quiz
Options labeled:
Require students to enter quiz access password ___________ and type password entry
Check the box in Quiz
Options labeled:
Require students to create a student password for their quiz answers.
Protecting the integrity of a quiz
During certain quizzes, you may want to prevent your students from using other programs on the AlphaSmart devices. For example:
• You may want to disable all other SmartApplets until students complete a given quiz.
• During a math quiz, you may not want your students to be able to use the Calculator SmartApplet.
• During a spelling or essay-writing quiz, you may not want your students to be able to access Spell Check in AlphaWord or other
SmartApplets.
You can set these limits by checking the appropriate boxes on the
Advanced tab of the Quiz Options window.
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Selecting advanced quiz options
Marking a quiz as “finished”
In order to provide the options described above, the AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet must know when a quiz is in progress. This also provides a further tool to protect the test-taking procedure. If, when designing a quiz, you specify that the quiz must be marked “finished,” student answers cannot be changed after the quiz is completed. This is useful in the following circumstances:
• If time is up and students must turn in the quiz, but some students have left certain questions unanswered, marking the quiz finished prevents these students from declaring later that their unanswered questions were unintentional.
• If a student hands in a quiz, leaves the classroom, and tries to re-enter the quiz later to fill in or change answers, marking a quiz as “finished” prevents these changes.
You can set this limit by checking the Require students to mark quiz as finished box in the Advanced window of the Quiz Options screen.
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Modifying quiz prompts
Modifying quiz prompts
AlphaQuiz lets you customize the prompts that appear for quiz questions. The default entries are explained in the following table.
Question type
True/false T or F
Multiple choice
Short answer
Essay
Default prompt
Select 1
Select all that apply
Short
Answer:
Essay, press tab to answer:
How it is used
Used to prompt students to type either T for true or F for false
Note: Regardless of the text used in the prompt, only T or
F will be accepted as responses
Used when there’s only one right answer
Used when there is more than one correct answer
Used to cue students for “fill in the blank”-type questions
(eighteen characters or fewer in answer)
Used to cue students to press tab to clear screen so they may type paragraphs
Text length limit
31 characters
21 characters
23 characters
13 characters
31 characters
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Modifying quiz prompts
To customize prompts:
1. Click the Prompts tab on the Quiz Options window. The Prompts window entries define the text your students see as a prompt for each type of quiz question.
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2. Use the default entries (these can be restored by clicking the
Defaults button) or customize.
3. Click OK when you’re done.
Tip!
You can view the prompt for a question to see how it will look on an AlphaSmart device by choosing Question >
Show AlphaSmart View.
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Spell-checking a quiz
QuizDesigner does not have a built-in capability to spell check quizzes. Because it is important to present students with correctly spelled questions, you can use a word processing program on your computer to check quiz spelling.
To spell-check your quiz:
1. After composing all your questions in QuizDesigner, save the quiz.
2. Choose File > Export.
3. Select options for the text you want to spell check.
4. Click OK.
5. Enter the name of the test in the File Name field of the Save As window.
6. Click Save.
7. Start your word processing application and open the file you just exported.
Note: The exported quiz will be a text file (.txt), so be sure to display “all files” as you’re searching for the file name.
8. Proofread, spell check, and grammar check the text as you normally would.
9. Note any changes needed.
10. Return to the quiz in the QuizDesigner application.
11. Type in the corrections.
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Rearranging questions
Rearranging questions
Once you’ve composed the questions in your quiz, it’s easy to rearrange their order. This can be helpful for achieving a smooth flow of questions and controlling test-taking time.
To re-order questions in a specific sequence:
1. Open the quiz whose questions you want to rearrange and make sure the questions appear in the Quiz Questions window.
2. Reorder questions by dragging and dropping them into the order you want. As you do so, questions automatically renumber properly.
3. Save your quiz when you’re satisfied with the order of the questions.
To rearrange questions in random order:
1. Open the quiz whose questions you want to rearrange and make sure the questions appear in the Quiz Questions window.
2. Choose Question > Shuffle Question Order. QuizDesigner rearranges the questions randomly.
3. Save your quiz when you’re satisfied with the order of the questions.
Warning!
If you shuffle the order of questions but are unhappy with the order, you can restore the previous order by choosing
Edit > Undo. However, you must choose Undo right after shuffling or you will lose the original order.
Dragging questions between quizzes
You can drag questions between quizzes. When you do so, questions remain in the original quiz.
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To drag and drop questions into a different quiz:
1. Open two quizzes so that they appear side by side in
QuizDesigner.
Tip!
On a PC, choose Window > Tile Quiz Windows to quickly line up two quizzes. (There is no equivalent command on a
Macintosh.)
2. Click to highlight the question you want to drag and drop it into the desired position in the other quiz.
Deleting questions
There will be times of course when you want to delete questions from quizzes without deleting an entire quiz.
To delete a question:
1. Open the quiz that contains questions you want to delete and make sure the questions appear in the Quiz Questions window.
2. Click to highlight the question you want to delete.
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Viewing the AlphaSmart devices display
3. Choose Question > Remove Question or press Delete. The question disappears from the Quiz Questions list.
Note: You can restore a deleted question by pressing a -Z (Mac) or Ctrl-Z (PC) immediately after deletion.
Viewing the AlphaSmart devices display
As you’re composing a quiz, it can be helpful to see how students will view questions on their AlphaSmart devices. This lets you preview the quiz to see if your questions flow well and scroll easily.
Note: Students can change the font size on Neos. See “Changing font size” on page 56 for details.
To preview a quiz:
1. Open the quiz you want to preview and make sure the questions appear in the Quiz Questions window.
2. Select the question you want to view.
3. Choose Question > Show AlphaSmart View. A window simulating the view of an AlphaSmart device appears. You’ll see the question number, question type, and question text (just as your students will see it).
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4. Use the keys shown in the table below to move through your quiz.
(Instructions appear in white on the simulated AlphaSmart devices window, but will not appear on your students’
AlphaSmart devices.)
Keystroke
K (up arrow)
L (down arrow) enter a L (Mac) ctrl L (PC) a K (Mac) ctrl K (PC)
What it does
Scrolls question text
Scrolls question text
Goes to the next question
Goes to the previous question
5. Click Done when you have finished viewing the AlphaSmart device preview.
Exporting a quiz
Sometimes you may want to transfer a quiz to your word processing program in order to use it outside of the AlphaQuiz system.
QuizDesigner lets you export a quiz as a text (.txt) file.
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Exporting a quiz
To export a quiz:
1. In QuizDesigner, open the quiz you want to export and be sure the Quiz Questions window is displayed.
2. Choose File > Export. The Quiz Export Options window appears.
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3. Select the export options you want, as explained in the following table:
Option
Export quiz name
Export author/ teacher name
Export blank for student name
What it does
Check to export the name of the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to export the name
Check to export the name of the person who composed the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to export the author’s name
Check to create a blank line in the exported file where the students can enter their names
Remove the check mark if you do not want to create this field
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Option
Export blank for class number
Question
Correct answers
Question remarks
What it does
Check to create a blank line where the students can enter their class number
Remove the check mark if you do not want to create this field
Check to export the text of each question in the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to export question text
Check to export the correct answers you’ve entered for each question
Remove the check mark if you do not want to export the answers
Check to export the remarks you’ve written in the Comments field for all questions
Remove the check mark if you do not want to export these comments
4. Click OK when you’re done.
5. Enter a name for the exported quiz in the File Name field.
6. Click Save.
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Printing a quiz
Printing a quiz
It is possible to administer on paper a quiz that you’ve developed in
QuizDesigner.
To print a quiz:
1. Open the quiz you want to print and be sure the Quiz Questions window is displayed.
2. Choose File > Print. The Quiz Printing Options window appears.
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3. Select the print options you want, as explained in the following table:
Option
Print quiz name
Print author/ teacher name
What it does
Check to print the name of the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print the name
Check to print the name of the person who composed the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print the author’s name
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Option
Print blank for student name
Print blank for class number
Question
Correct answers
Question remarks
What it does
Check to print a blank line where the students can enter their names
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print this line
Check to print a blank line where the students can enter their class number
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print this line
Check to print the text of each question in the quiz
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print question text
Check to print the correct answers you’ve entered for each question
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print the answers
Check to print the remarks you’ve written in the Comments field for all questions
Remove the check mark if you do not want to print these comments
Important: Check your selections and printout carefully! While you will want to print out the questions and correct answers for proofreading purposes, you would not want to distribute these to your students.
4. Click OK when you’re done. A standard print window appears.
5. Click OK to print the quiz.
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Creating a question library
Creating a question library
You can create a library to store large numbers of questions. Unlike an actual quiz, a library has no capacity limit, so it’s useful as a repository for questions encompassing a particular subject.
For example, you could create a library of questions about all the continents, then when you create a quiz, use only those questions that have to do with a particular continent.
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A quiz that uses questions from the library
A question library
To create a library, you follow the same steps you perform when you create a quiz, but you save the file in a special format. When you save the library, the Quiz Capacity indicator bar disappears.
To use library questions, you simply drag the questions you want to use into the quiz you’re creating.
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To create a question library:
1. In QuizDesigner, choose File > New. The Quiz Options window appears with the Basic tab selected.
2. Complete the fields in the Quiz Options window, then click OK.
A quiz window appears.
3. Choose File > Save As.
4. Navigate to the location where you want to save the library, type a name for your library in the File Name field, then choose
QuizDesigner Library Files (*.qzl) from the Save as type list.
5. Click OK. Note that the Quiz Capacity indicator bar in the quiz window is no longer there.
6. Add questions in the same manner as you do for a quiz (see
“Composing questions” on page 23).
7. When you’re through adding questions, choose File > Save.
To use questions from a question library:
1. Open the question library from which you want to select questions.
2. Start a new quiz by choosing File > New, or open an existing quiz.
3. Align the two windows so that they are side by side. (On a PC, choose Window > Tile Quiz Windows; on a Macintosh, you can resize and drag the windows manually.)
4. Drag the questions you want to use from the library to the quiz and save your quiz when you’re through.
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Creating a question library
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Chapter 3
Administering Quizzes to
Your Students
Introducing AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
Once you’ve designed quizzes, your students can take them using their AlphaSmart devices. After you download a quiz into their
AlphaSmart devices, they can take the test in the classroom, in the library, or on a field trip.
The basic steps to administering a quiz are
1. The teacher downloads the quiz onto AlphaSmart devices.
2. Students select the correct quiz, enter names and passwords, and take the quiz.
3. The teacher uploads the student quiz responses to a desktop computer.
What is a SmartApplet?
A SmartApplet is an application (such as AlphaQuiz) developed specifically for AlphaSmart devices. Each AlphaSmart device has an applets key. Pressing this key displays a menu of SmartApplets loaded on that AlphaSmart device. Some examples of SmartApplets are AlphaWord (a word processing program), Calculator (for math calculations), and AlphaQuiz.
QuizManager is the component in the AlphaQuiz system that handles downloading quizzes from your computer to AlphaSmart devices.
See“Sending a quiz to connected AlphaSmart devices” on page 83 for detailed instructions.
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Changing font size
Changing font size
You can change the onscreen font size in AlphaQuiz on your Neo.
Changing the font size changes how text appears onscreen while in
AlphaQuiz, letting you work at a screen size that suits your needs. It doesn’t change font attributes associated with the text, so when you send text to your computer or printer, the text itself is plain text.
Note: These steps do not apply to AlphaSmart 3000 devices.
There are four font settings from which to choose:
• System (four lines per screen using a fixed-width font)
• Small (six lines per screen)
• Medium (five lines per screen)
• Large (four lines per screen)
The Very Large (three lines per screen) and Extra Large (two lines per screen) font sizes are listed, but are not supported in AlphaQuiz.
When you choose either the Very Large or Extra Large, the font size will remain the previous selected size.
When you change the font size, that change applies to all files and workspaces in AlphaQuiz and AlphaWord Plus. You can’t set different font sizes for different files. If, for some reason, some of the font sizes are removed from your Neo (either deliberately or accidentally through AlphaSmart Manager), AlphaQuiz defaults to the four-line system font.
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The following illustrations show examples of the font sizes.
Large (four lines)
Medium (five lines)
Small (six lines)
You can set the font size in one of three ways:
• By using a keyboard command.
• Through the Control Panel SmartApplet (see the Neo User’s Guide for more information about the Control Panel).
• Through AlphaSmart Manager. Note, however, that AlphaSmart
Manager can only reset the font size to the system font (four lines onscreen).
To set the font size:
1. Do one of the following:
•
•
Press ctrl-optiona -F .
Press applets and select Control panel; then, scroll to select
Change default SmartApplet font from the list of options.
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Changing font size
2. Scroll to select the font size you want to use, then press enter .
If you changed the font size with the keyboard command, you’re returned to the workspace where you were working previously. If you used Control Panel, you’re returned to the list of settings. Press applets , then select AlphaQuiz, and log into a quiz to view the change in font size.
The system font
The four-line system font is slightly different from the four-line large font setting. The four-line system font is a “fixed-width” or
“monospace” font, and the four-line large font is a proportional font.
With fixed-width fonts, every character and space occupies the exact same width. With proportionally spaced fonts, each character occupies only the space it needs to display that particular character.
So, for example, an m character takes up more space than an i character.
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This illustration shows the difference between Neo’s four-line fonts:
Large four-line font
(proportional)
System four-line font
(fixed width)
Note the different widths of the words “William,” “ill,” and
“lollipop” in each illustration
The remainder of this chapter assumes you’ve correctly downloaded a quiz onto an AlphaSmart device.
Taking a quiz
This section explains the quiz-taking process from the student’s point of view, so you will know exactly what your students encounter as they progress through taking a quiz. This can help you design and compose effective quizzes, as well as help you guide your students through the quiz-taking process.
Refer to the User’s Guide for the AlphaSmart device if you have questions about how to use the device itself.
Selecting the correct quiz
Once you have downloaded the quiz to your students’ AlphaSmart devices, their first task is to start the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet on the device, then select the appropriate quiz from the list of available quizzes.
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Taking a quiz
Note: If you haven’t loaded any quizzes, students can start
AlphaQuiz, but they’ll see a message that no quizzes exist on the device. You need to download the quiz from your computer before they can take the test. See “Sending a quiz to connected
AlphaSmart devices” on page 83 for more information.
To take a quiz:
1. On the AlphaSmart devices, students press on/off .
2. Students press applets . The SmartApplets menu appears.
Select a SmartApplet and press enter:
- AlphaWord
- Calculator
- AlphaQuiz
3. Students scroll using the arrow keys to select AlphaQuiz, then press enter . A list of available quizzes appears.
Select a quiz:
- Math Chapter 1
- History Chapter 5
- Weather Quiz 1
4. Students scroll using the arrow keys to select the appropriate quiz, then press enter .
5. Students step through the prompts onscreen, as explained in the following sections.
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Entering passwords and other identifying information
Using passwords can help maintain the integrity of the test-taking process. You can use different levels of passwords, including quizspecific and student-specific passwords. See “Controlling student password requirements” on page 38.
Once students have started AlphaQuiz and entered into a quiz (as explained in “Taking a quiz” on page 59), they may be asked to identify themselves and their work with certain types of information, depending on what you specified as quiz options when you created the quiz:
• Quiz access password (optional)
• First and last name (required)
• Student password (optional)
• Class number (optional)
To enter identifying information:
1. If you specified a quiz access password, students type the password.
Enter the quiz access password:
(Press esc key to exit)
2. Students press enter . A screen requiring first and last name appears.
Enter your first and last name:
First Name:
Last Name:
Press Enter after typing the names.
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Taking a quiz
3. Students type their first and last names, using tab or enter to move between the fields. At least one letter in each field is required. The maximum number of letters is fifteen for first name and twenty for last name.
4. Students press enter .
5. Students should do one of the following:
• If a student has entered that quiz before, and a personal password is required, the student types their password and presses enter .
Thomas,
Please enter your password.
Password:
(Press esc key to exit)
• If a student has not yet entered that quiz, the student chooses and enters a personal password between two and six characters long.
Janice, please enter a password.
You need to remember this password.
Password:
Type password again:
Note: Password entries appear as a series of asterisks.
6. If you have specified a class number, students enter their class number and press enter .
Note: Class number can consist of up to two alphanumeric characters; for example, 6, 2B, 35, and XC are all acceptable.
AlphaQuiz does not validate the class number. You must direct your students to enter the correct class number. Incorrect entries
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Taking a quiz cause students’ work to be grouped incorrectly when
QuizManager sorts and prints reports.
Quiz navigation
Once students have entered the required identifying information, they are reminded about how to use AlphaQuiz Help during the quiz.
For Help while taking the quiz, press ctrl-H.
Press any key to begin quiz...
To begin a quiz:
1. Students press any key to exit the Help message. If a student has not already begun this quiz, the first quiz question appears. If a student has already started this quiz, AlphaQuiz opens the quiz with the student’s responses so far and display the last question viewed.
#1 T or F:
Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.
2. Students type the appropriate answers for each question type, then press enter to move to the next question. The keystrokes
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Taking a quiz shown in the following table describe how to move through questions and the quiz itself:
Key(s) esc
K (up arrow)
L (down arrow)
What it does while taking a quiz
Exits quiz (if marking a quiz “finished” is not required)
Allows student to scroll up through question or answer text
Allows student to scroll down through question or answer text
Moves to the next question a L enter a K enter a enter tab
Moves to the previous question
Advances to the next question, except in essay question answers
In essay question answers, inserts a line break; students can use this to begin a new paragraph
Advances to next question from essay question answer
Toggles between question and answer for essay question; the cursor returns to the student’s last location in the answer
Jumping from one question to another
Students don’t have to progress through the quiz sequentially; they can move through the questions in various ways.
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Taking a quiz
To jump to another question:
1. Students press a -J to jump to any question in the quiz.
2. Students enter the number of the question to which they want to jump. If students enter an incorrect question number, AlphaQuiz won’t continue until they correct the entry.
Enter a question number and press Enter.
Jump to question 1 - 20:
(Press esc key to exit)
To check for blank answers (unanswered questions):
1. Students press a -B . A screen showing unanswered questions appears. (The total number of questions listed on the screen depends on how many questions there are in that quiz, to a maximum of fifteen at a time.)
2. Students type a question number from the screen and press enter .
Questions that have not been answered:
2 6 11
Jump to question:
(Press esc key to exit)
3. Students answer that question, then press enter .
4. Students press a -B again to find remaining unanswered questions.
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Finishing a quiz
Finishing a quiz
Once students have completed a quiz, they can mark the quiz as finished (if required), exit AlphaQuiz, prepare for response retrieval by the teacher’s computer, or print the quiz.
To finish a quiz:
1. Students press esc .
• If you did not require that a quiz be marked as finished
(page 40), nothing further is required and students can return to other AlphaSmart device functions.
• If you required that a quiz be marked finished and chose to block other SmartApplets during the quiz (page 35), the following message appears.
The quiz has not been marked finished.
Press F to mark the quiz finished.
Press E to exit the quiz.
Press R to return to the quiz.
2. Students should do one of the following:
• Type R to return to the last question that appeared onscreen.
•
•
Type E to return to the list of available quizzes.
Type F to mark the quiz as finished. If a student left questions unanswered, the following prompt appears:
Some questions have not been answered.
You cannot change your responses once the quiz has been marked finished.
Mark the quiz as finished? (y/n)
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Finishing a quiz
3. If a student chose to mark a quiz as finished but left unanswered questions, the student should type Y to confirm they indeed are done or N to return to the quiz.
Printing a quiz
You can let students print the quiz and their answers directly from their AlphaSmart devices if you set the appropriate option in
QuizDesigner when you create the quiz (“Selecting advanced quiz options” on page 35). To print, students press print on their devices before exiting the quiz.
Note: AlphaSmart devices can print to a printer using a cable to connect directly between the device and the printer, or by using infrared beaming with an IR-capable printer. Details on printing from an AlphaSmart device, including how to set up a printer on the device, can be found in the User’s Guide for the particular
AlphaSmart device you have.
Saving a quiz to an AlphaWord file
Students can save a quiz to an AlphaWord file (if quiz options have been set to allow this).
Important: Be sure to tell your students that any text saved in a particular file will be deleted if they overwrite it with a quiz.
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Special situations during test-taking
To save a quiz to an AlphaWord file:
1. From the quiz, students press send .
2. Students type the number of the file to which they want to save the quiz.
Save quiz response to which AlphaWord file? (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
(Press esc key to exit)
If the file isn’t empty a warning message appears.
WARNING! Saving a student’s response to file 4 will delete the text in that file. Are you sure you want to continue? (y/n)
3. Students type N to enter a different file number or Y to export the file.
After saving the quiz to an AlphaWord file, AlphaQuiz automatically exits and places students in the AlphaWord file they designated
(unless “mark as finished” is required and a quiz has not been marked finished).
Special situations during test-taking
While you’ll use your computer to download and manage quizzes and retrieve student responses, there may be times when you’ll need to perform certain housekeeping tasks on AlphaSmart devices directly.
These situations include
• Checking a student’s password so that she or he can finish a quiz
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• Deleting a student’s answers
• Changing the finished status of a test; for example if a student leaves the class before marking the quiz finished and you need to use the AlphaSmart devices for other functions
• Viewing a student’s responses before they are sent to
QuizManager
You can use teacher options within the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet to handle these situations.
Accessing teacher options
To allow teachers direct access to AlphaQuiz administrative functions on each AlphaSmart device, a Teacher Options area is included in the
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet.
To access teacher options:
1. On the AlphaSmart device, press on/off .
2. Press applets . The SmartApplets menu appears.
Select a SmartApplet and press enter:
- AlphaWord
- Calculator
- AlphaQuiz
3. Scroll using the arrow keys to select AlphaQuiz, then press enter .
A list of available quizzes appears.
Select a quiz:
- Math Chapter 1
- History Chapter 5
- Weather Quiz 1
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Special situations during test-taking
4. Scroll using the arrow keys to select the appropriate quiz, then press enter .
5. If, when designing the test, you required a quiz access password, enter that password.
Enter the quiz access password:
(Press esc key to exit)
6. Type teacher as your first name and options as your last name;
AlphaQuiz recognizes that you are trying to sign into the teacher area.
Enter your first and last name:
First Name:teacher
Last Name:options
Press Enter after typing the names.
7. Type in the administrative password you assigned. If you did not define an administrative password, enter the AlphaSmart devices master password.
Enter the quiz admin password:
(Press esc key to exit)
Important: Refer to the AlphaSmart Manager 2 User’s Guide for information about the master password.
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8. From the student response list that appears (students who have started the quiz), you can go on to the tasks explained in the rest of the chapter.
Student Response List:
- Namira Ariman
- Diego Davalos
A N
A F
- Matt Eliando U N
----------------------------------------
- Stella Guffin U F
Checking quiz status
The letters on the right of the student response list indicate the status of each student, as follows:
U
F
Code
A
N
What it means
Student has answered all questions
Student has not answered all questions
Student has marked test finished
Student has not marked test finished
Note: It’s possible for a student to have marked a quiz as finished even though a U is showing as their test status. This can occur if the student has run out of time and must turn in the test, in which case he or she will mark it as finished even though some questions remain unanswered.
To view a student’s responses:
1. From the student response list, select the name of a student.
2. Press enter .
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Special situations during test-taking
You now have access to all questions and responses in the student’s quiz. You will not be able to change responses for a quiz that is marked finished. Press esc to return to the student response list.
To view a student’s password:
1. From the student response list, select the name of a student.
2. Press a -P . The student’s password appears.
3. Press any key to return to the student response list.
Changing the finished status for a student
If you have required that students mark a quiz as finished and a student becomes ill during the test or has to leave the room for some reason, you can mark his or her quiz finished.
This releases the quiz for other classes and makes the AlphaSmart device usable instead of being locked in that particular quiz.
To change the finished status:
1. From the student response list, select the name of a student.
2. Press a -F . This toggles the finished demarcation between F
(finished) and N (not finished).
Note: Remember, this toggle applies only if you designed the test such that students must mark it finished.
Tip!
If you need help with changing the finished status, press a -H for Help.
3. Press esc to exit the student response list.
Note: If the AlphaSmart device has more than one quiz document loaded, you can determine which quiz has the unfinished responses that are causing the AlphaSmart device to be locked out of other SmartApplets or functions. Look on the quiz menu for an L, C, or S to the right of the name of a quiz. The letters indicate which functions are being blocked by the unfinished
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Special situations during test-taking quiz: L denotes blocking all SmartApplets; C, blocking access to
Calculator SmartApplet; and S, blocking access to spell checks.
Select a quiz:
- Math Chapter 1
- History Chapter 5
- Weather Quiz 1
S C L
S
To clear the blocks, either the students have to finish the quiz or the teacher has to delete the student response list.
To delete one student’s responses to all questions:
1. From the student response list, select the name of a student.
2. Make sure the cursor is blinking next to that student’s name and press a -D . A warning appears.
WARNING!
The quiz responses for this student will be deleted. Are you sure you want to delete them? (y/n)
3. Type Y to delete; type N to cancel. If you type Y , a message informs you that the answers are being deleted.
Deleting student quiz responses...
Warning!
removed.
Once you delete a student’s answers, they’re permanently
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Special situations during test-taking
To view the quiz access password:
X From the student response list, press a -A . The access password (if it exists) appears.
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Chapter 4
Grading Quizzes and
Printing Reports
Introducing QuizManager
QuizManager serves as your desktop tool for handling the AlphaQuiz test-taking process. QuizManager lets you
• Download quizzes to your students’ AlphaSmart devices
• Upload completed quiz responses from your students’
AlphaSmart devices
• Control which quizzes are loaded onto AlphaSmart devices
• Power up and shut down all connected AlphaSmart devices
• Grade quizzes
• Assign points to questions
• Generate and print reports
• Compile statistics
• Export scores to a grading program
Starting QuizManager
You’ve likely already installed QuizManager on your computer. If you haven’t, install it now by following the instructions in “Installing
AlphaQuiz” on page 11.
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Using the menus and control bar
To start QuizManager:
X Do one of the following:
•
•
Macintosh: Locate and open the QuizManager folder on your computer and double-click the QuizManager icon.
PC: Choose Programs > AlphaSmart > QuizManager >
QuizManager.
Using the menus and control bar
The menus and control bar in QuizManager allow you to move quickly through quiz management tasks.
File menu
Commands on the File menu let you open, close, save, set up and print (Macintosh only) students’ quiz answer files.
Note: To help you use the software easily, QuizManager uses familiar word processing keystrokes, such as Ctrl-O or a -O for open, a -W for close, Ctrl-S or a -S for save, a -P for print, and so on.
File menu
(Macintosh)
File menu
(PC)
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File command
Open
Close
Save
Save As
Keystroke
Ctrl-O (PC) a -O (Mac) none (PC) a -W (Mac)
Ctrl-S (PC) a -S (Mac) none
Page Setup
(Mac only)
(Mac only)
Quit (Mac)
Exit (PC) none a a
-P
-Q (Mac)
What it does
Opens a saved set of student responses to a quiz
Closes the student response set you’re viewing
Saves the student response set you’re viewing
Lets you save the student response set you’re viewing under a different name
Takes you to a standard print window
Prints the student response set you’re viewing
Quits QuizManager (you’re prompted to save if you have made changes)
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Using the menus and control bar
Edit menu (Macintosh only)
Commands on the Edit menu let you perform standard editing tasks, such as copying, pasting, and selecting text, as well as move between students’ responses.
Edit menu
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Edit command
Undo (PC)
Undo typing
(Mac)
Cut
Keystroke
Ctrl-Z (PC) a -Z (Mac)
Copy
Paste
Ctrl-X (PC) a -X (Mac)
Ctrl-C (PC) a -C (Mac)
Ctrl-V (PC) a -V (Mac) none Clear (Mac)
Select All
Next Student
Ctrl-A (PC) a -A (Mac)
Ctrl] (PC) a ] (Mac)
Previous Student Ctrl[ (PC) a [ (Mac)
What it does
Lets you undo your last action
Cuts selected text
Copies selected text
Pastes text that’s been cut or copied
Clears all text from the active text field
Selects contents of the active window
Shows you the next student’s responses
Shows you the previous student’s responses
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Communication menu
Commands on the Communication menu allow you to send quizzes to and retrieve quiz responses from your students’ AlphaSmart devices, as well as turn power on and off for all connected
AlphaSmart devices. These menu options are identical to the buttons on the QuizManager control bar.
Communication menu
Communication command
Send Quiz
Delete Quiz
Retrieve
Responses
Delete Responses
Keystroke What it does none Downloads a quiz from your desktop computer to AlphaSmart devices none none none
Deletes a quiz from AlphaSmart devices
Uploads your students’ quiz responses to your computer (the quiz itself remains in the AlphaSmart device’s memory)
Deletes student responses from connected AlphaSmart devices, but does not upload those responses to your desktop computer
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Using the menus and control bar
Communication command
Power On
AlphaSmarts
Power Off
AlphaSmarts
Keystroke What it does none Turns power on to all AlphaSmart devices connected to an AlphaHub or by direct USB cable to your computer none Shuts down all AlphaSmart devices connected to the AlphaHub or by direct USB cable to your computer
Window menu (PC only)
Commands on the Window menu allow you to arrange windows on the screen and move between open documents.
Window menu
Help menu
Commands on the Help menu offer context-sensitive assistance while you’re grading quizzes or compiling reports.
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Using the menus and control bar
To get help while using QuizManager:
X Choose Help > QuizManager Help.
Help menu
(Macintosh)
Help menu (PC)
Help command
About Balloon Help
(Mac only)
Show Balloons (Mac only)
QuizManager Help
About QuizManager
(PC only)
Keystroke What it does none Provides explanation about help balloons none none none
Lets you show or hide help balloons
Shows help contents, from which you select a topic
Shows version, copyright, and contact information
QuizManager Help uses a browser to display topics related to the function you’re trying to accomplish. You can select other topics from the topic list in each selection.
Note: You must have a browser installed on your computer in order to use QuizManager Help. When you choose Help,
QuizManager searches your computer for your default browser; if it can’t find a default browser, it then searches for Internet
Explorer or Netscape Navigator. If the browser is not currently running, QuizManager launches it when you access Help. If the browser is already running, the Help topic replaces the current page in the browser window.
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Using the menus and control bar
QuizManager control bar
The QuizManager control bar lets you quickly access the main functions of QuizManager—it contains the same commands as the
Communications menu. A status message across the top of the control bar lets you know how many (if any) AlphaSmart devices are currently connected to an AlphaHub or to your computer by direct
USB.
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A row of numbered indicators identifies each connected AlphaSmart device. These indicators are
• Black if no AlphaSmart devices are connected, or if the connected
AlphaSmart device has a version of AlphaWord prior to 1.4 installed.
Additionally, some older AlphaSmart 3000s may display black indicators even though they are connected. If this appears to be the case with your devices, be sure to power on those devices before connecting them to the AlphaHub.
• Yellow if the AlphaSmart device does not have AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet installed.
• Red if the AlphaSmart device is not communicating properly through the AlphaHub.
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Sending a quiz to connected AlphaSmart devices
The following table describes each control bar button.
Control bar button What it does
Sends a quiz to connected AlphaSmart devices
Removes questions and responses for a particular quiz from connected AlphaSmart devices
Uploads students’ responses without removing that quiz or the responses from AlphaSmart devices
Removes all students’ responses for a particular quiz from AlphaSmart devices memory
Turns on power to all connected AlphaSmart devices
Applies only if AlphaSmart devices were powered off using QuizManager
Turns off all connected AlphaSmart devices
Sending a quiz to connected
AlphaSmart devices
You use the control bar in QuizManager to send quizzes to
AlphaSmart devices.
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Sending a quiz to connected AlphaSmart
To send a quiz to a single or multiple AlphaSmart devices:
1. Make sure the AlphaSmart devices are connected to your desktop computer through an AlphaHub or by a direct USB cable.
Tip!
If a connected device’s indicator light is black, disconnect the device and turn it on. Then reconnect it to the AlphaHub or your computer.
2. Click Send Quiz on the QuizManager control bar or choose
Communication > Send Quiz.
3. In the Select Quiz Document window, select the quiz you want to download and click Select. (Quizzes use the file extension .qzz.)
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Important: If you are sharing quiz files between Macintosh and PC systems, ensure that the file name ends in .qzz before sending it to the PC.
4. In the Send Quiz window, decide what password scheme you want to use and do one of the following:
• If you defined a quiz access password when you created the quiz and want to continue using this access password, do nothing.
•
•
If you want to set a new quiz access password for the devices, type a password in the Access Password field.
Leave this field blank if you don’t want students to have to enter a password.
Note: Changing the quiz access password here does not change the password you originally chose when you created the quiz in
QuizDesigner. Each time you open that quiz in QuizDesigner, the original password remains the same. However, you can change it in QuizManager before downloading as many times as you want.
5. When you are satisfied with the password, click Send. A message appears, telling you that the quiz is downloading. When the download finishes, you’ll see a message saying that the quiz was sent successfully.
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Deleting quizzes from connected AlphaSmart
6. Disconnect (or have your students disconnect) the AlphaSmart devices.
Your students can now open and take the quiz.
Deleting quizzes from connected
AlphaSmart devices
Because AlphaSmart devices have space for only four different quizzes, you’ll want to delete quizzes on a regular basis to make room for new ones.
Warning!
Be sure you have retrieved student responses for a quiz before deleting that quiz from AlphaSmart devices. If you simply delete the quiz without having done so, the quiz and its associated student responses will be deleted from the AlphaSmart devices. Use the Retrieve Responses button on the QuizManager control bar to upload student responses to your computer.
To delete old quizzes from AlphaSmart devices:
1. Make sure the AlphaSmart devices are connected to an
AlphaHub or to your computer by a direct USB cable.
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2. Click Delete Quiz on the QuizManager control bar or choose
Communication > Delete Quiz.
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3. In the Delete Quizzes window, select the quiz or quizzes you want to delete by clicking the checkbox next to the name of the quiz.
You can use the Select All or Select None buttons to speed up the process.
If the quiz has an administrative password, you need to enter it here before you can delete the quiz
This first number shows how many students have taken the quiz
This second number shows how many of the student responses have been retrieved Use these buttons to quickly select all or none of the quizzes
Note: Even though each AlphaSmart device can hold only four different quizzes at a time, there may be different sets of quizzes loaded on some of the connected AlphaSmart devices. Because
QuizManager displays the names of all of the quizzes loaded on all of the AlphaSmart devices, the list could be fairly long.
4. Enter the administrative password for a quiz if an empty text box appears next to its name.
5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for any additional quizzes you want to delete.
6. Click OK. A message appears letting you know that the quizzes you selected have been successfully deleted from your students’
AlphaSmart devices.
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Retrieving student responses
Retrieving student responses
QuizManager lets you easily upload students’ quiz responses from
AlphaSmart devices to your computer so you can grade them and print quiz reports. If need be, you can retrieve quiz responses multiple times for the same quiz, which might be useful if some students did not complete the quiz before the end of class.
To retrieve student responses:
1. Make sure the AlphaSmart devices are connected to an
AlphaHub or to your computer by a direct USB cable.
2. Click Retrieve Responses on the QuizManager control bar or choose Communication > Retrieve Responses.
3. In the Select Quiz Document window, select the quiz from which you want to retrieve responses and click Select. (QuizManager needs the information stored in the quiz document in order to
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Retrieving student responses identify and organize the data from the quiz that resides on the
AlphaSmart devices.) The Retrieve Responses window appears.
Check to indicate which student responses you want to retrieve
An R indicates a student’s responses have already been retrieved
4. Select the students whose responses you want to retrieve by clicking the checkboxes next to their names. You can use the Select All or
Select None buttons to speed up the process. (QuizManager automatically selects any responses that have not yet been retrieved.)
5. If you want to change the date the quiz was administered, type in a new date, or click the down arrow to view a calendar from which you can select a date.
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Deleting students’ responses
6. Select one of the following options:
• Create a new document (if you’ve never retrieved these quiz answers before or are starting over).
• Merge into an existing document (if you’ve previously retrieved and saved some students’ responses for this quiz).
You must first save a response document before you can merge additional responses into it.
7. Click OK. QuizManager retrieves the responses.
When retrieval is complete, the student responses window opens so you can grade the quiz and report on students’ results. See the section “Grading quizzes” on page 94 for more information on the grading process.
Deleting students’ responses
Once you have retrieved and saved your students’ responses, you can use QuizManager to clear quiz responses from AlphaSmart devices.
The quiz itself remains on the AlphaSmart devices until you specifically delete it. That way, you can administer the quiz to another set of students.
To delete student responses:
1. Make sure the AlphaSmart devices are connected to an
AlphaHub or to your computer by a direct USB cable.
2. Click Delete Responses on the QuizManager control bar or choose Communication > Delete Responses. QuizManager
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Turning on power to AlphaSmart devices searches for quizzes on connected AlphaSmart devices, then displays the Delete Responses window.
This first number shows how many students have taken the quiz
If the quiz has an administrative password, you need to enter it here before you can delete the responses
This second number shows how many of the student responses have been retrieved
3. Select the quiz whose responses you want to delete by clicking the checkbox next to the name of the quiz. You can use the Select
All or Select None buttons to speed up the process.
4. Enter the administrative password for a quiz if an empty text box appears next to its name.
5. Click OK. A message appears saying that the selected responses were deleted.
Turning on power to AlphaSmart devices
If the connected AlphaSmart devices have been powered off by either quitting QuizManager or by clicking the Power Off button in the control bar, you can turn power back on to all of them at once.
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Turning off power to AlphaSmart devices
To turn on AlphaSmart devices:
X Click Power On AlphaSmart on the QuizManager control bar or choose Communication > Power On AlphaSmarts.
The Power On button becomes dim (deactivated) and the Power Off button becomes active. This indicates that the AlphaSmart devices are on.
Turning off power to AlphaSmart devices
Connected AlphaSmart devices are automatically turned off when you quit or exit QuizManager. You might also want to turn off power to the AlphaSmart devices when QuizManager is running.
To turn off AlphaSmart devices:
X Click Power Off AlphaSmarts on the QuizManager control bar or choose Communication > Power Off AlphaSmarts.
The Power Off and Power On buttons change appearance and all connected AlphaSmart devices turn off.
Assigning question points
QuizManager gives you the option of assigning points (or weights) to individual questions. The default point assignment for each question created in QuizDesigner is one point. You can use these point assignments in two ways:
• Use the default of one point per question when grading quizzes, adjusting point values after grading only as necessary for fairness
(if, for example, you notice that one question is overly difficult for your students, and you wish to reduce its value in the quiz).
• Assign point values before grading the quiz.
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Assigning question points
Note: You must retrieve student responses to your desktop computer before assigning points. You can only assign points if you are working on a student response document.
To assign points:
1. Make sure you have retrieved responses (page 88) and are viewing the student response document to which you want to assign points. Alternatively, choose File > Open to open a response document you’ve previously saved.
2. Click Points at the bottom of the window. The Question Points window appears, listing questions for that quiz in numerical order, along with Points fields and percentages showing how much each question is worth in context of the whole quiz.
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Grading quizzes
QuizManager calculates and displays these percentages automatically as you change question point values.
Question number
Question type
Question text
Points field, in which you enter the maximum point value for each question
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The percent value, based on points, that question has out of the percent value for the entire quiz. QuizManager automatically calculates percentages based on the values you enter for points.
3. Click in a question’s field to change its points, or use the Tab key to move from field to field.
4. Type the point value for the question you want to edit. (To assign fractional points, use one decimal point; to throw out a question, enter zero.) The percentages adjust automatically as you edit the values in the points fields.
5. Click OK when you’re done.
Grading quizzes
Once you’ve retrieved student responses to your computer, you can grade the quiz. Questions that can be graded automatically by
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QuizManager will already be scored. You can, however, manually override automatic scoring.
To grade a quiz:
1. Make sure you have retrieved responses (page 88) and are viewing the student response document you want to grade.
Alternatively, choose File > Open to open a response document you’ve previously saved.
Click to expand or hide student names within class groups
Quiz name, author, and date the quiz was administered
Total number of points the quiz is worth
Filled circle indicates the quiz has been completely graded; empty circle indicates the quiz has not been completely graded
Student score for the quiz
Note: Listings in the Student Response window are grouped by class. If you click a particular class, that class is selected. If you click a student’s name, then click Grade, the Grading window for that student appears. You can also select multiple students or an entire class. Expand and collapse class listings by double-clicking the small arrow (Macintosh) or +/- (PC) to the left of each class number.
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Grading quizzes
2. Click the class whose quiz you want to grade. If you’re not using class numbers, simply select the names of the students whose quizzes you want to grade. If you want to work through the entire list sequentially, deselect any class or student by clicking below the last name in the list.
3. Click the Grade button at the bottom of the Student Response window. The Grading window appears.
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4. Select which questions you want to grade from the Show
Questions list at the bottom of the window. You can display all
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Printing reports questions, display only those questions not automatically graded, or display only those questions not yet graded.
5. Click the name of the student whose quiz you want to grade.
6. Enter points or comments for each question, using the Tab key or scroll bar to move between fields.
Note: You can enter comments about a question or a student’s response as you grade, which you can include on a Corrected
Quiz report if you like. Note however, that question remarks you entered while you were designing the quiz appear in the Remarks section of a report, and you cannot edit these remarks in
QuizManager.
7. When you have graded all responses for a student, select the next student’s name from the list at the left side of the window and begin grading in the same manner.
8. After you’ve graded all the student responses you wanted to grade, click Done Grading.
Printing reports
You can print four types of reports based on the quizzes you’ve administered.
• Grading Sheet : lets you to do your grading on a hard copy quiz
• Corrected Quiz Report : provides a graded quiz report you can hand back to your students
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• Quiz Summary Report : lists student names and grades (for teachers only)
• Statistical Report : provides class averages, medians, and score distributions, along with frequency of missed questions
Reports typically contain identifying information at the top, such as the student’s name, class number, the date the quiz was taken, and the score. You can elect to include or exclude these identifiers when creating the report.
Important: If a student or class is selected when you click Reports,
QuizManager creates a report only for that selection (either student or class). If you want the report you choose to include your entire roster, be sure to deselect any class or student by clicking below the last name on the list.
Printing a grading sheet
A grading sheet is helpful if your quiz contains questions that can’t be automatically scored. This printout lets you grade the hard copy and enter the score into QuizManager later. You have several options as to what information to include for all questions: full text of all questions and possible answers, entire student responses, space to handwrite student’s grade, and space to handwrite comments. You can also choose to print only those questions not automatically graded by QuizManager.
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Printing reports
To print a grading sheet:
1. Make sure you’re in the Student Response window for the quiz for which you want a grading sheet.
2. Click Reports. The Reports window appears.
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Printing reports
3. Select Grading Sheet from the Report Types list on the left.
4. Select the options you want for the grading sheet from the choices on the right.
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5. Click Create Report. The grading sheet appears, displaying information student by student.
6. Use the scroll bar to move down through the student names and questions.
7. Click Print to print the grading sheet. QuizManager automatically prints each student’s responses on a new page.
8. Click Save if you want to save the grading sheet information to a text file.
9. Click Done when you’re finished.
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Printing a corrected quiz report
A corrected quiz report gives you graded reports of student quizzes to distribute to your class. Each student’s report prints on a separate page. You have several options as to what information to include on the corrected quiz: full text of all questions and possible answers, entire student responses , correct answer for each question, and teacher comments and remarks.
To print a corrected quiz:
1. Make sure you’re in the Student Response window for the corrected quiz you want to print.
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2. Click Reports. The Reports window appears.
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3. Select Corrected Quiz from the Report Types list on the left.
4. Select the options you want for the corrected quiz from the choices on the right.
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5. Click Create Report. The corrected quiz report appears, displaying one of your student’s responses.
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Use this dropdown list to select other students
6. Click Print to print a corrected quiz report for this student.
7. Click Save if you want to save this student’s corrected quiz information to a text file.
8. To view another student’s corrected quiz, select a student from the student dropdown list.
9. Click Done when you’re finished.
Printing a quiz summary report
A quiz summary generates a tab-delimited report that lists students’ names and their grades for the selected quiz. Quiz summary reports
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Printing reports are generally for teacher use only and can include student names and test scores.
To print a quiz summary report:
1. Make sure you’re in the Student Response window for the quiz summary you want to print.
2. Click Reports. The Reports window appears.
3. Select Quiz Summary from the Report Types list on the left.
4. Select the options you want for the quiz summary from the choices on the right.
5. Click Create Report.
6. The quiz summary report appears, displaying the students in that class and their test scores.
7. Click Print to print the quiz summary.
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8. Click Save if you want to save the quiz summary to a text file.
9. Click Done when you’re finished.
Printing a statistical report
QuizManager gives you the option of creating statistical reports containing data from selected students and classes. You have several options as to what information to include in a statistical report: average scores, median scores, high and low scores, score distribution, or a summary of questions students answered incorrectly.
To print a statistical report:
1. Make sure you’re in the Student Response window for the quiz summary you want to print.
2. Click Reports. The Reports window appears.
3. Select Statistics from the Report Types list on the left.
4. Select the options you want for the statistical report from the choices on the right.
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5. Click Create Report. The statistical report appears, displaying the data for that quiz.
6. Click Print to print the statistical report.
7. Click Save if you want to save the statistical report to a text file.
8. Click Done when you’re finished.
Exporting student quiz scores
QuizManager lets you export student quiz scores into a computerbased grade book application. If you want QuizManager to match names between your application and student quiz scores, your grade book application must be able to export a text file roster of student names and be able to import a text file of names and scores.
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Exporting student quiz scores
To export quiz scores:
1. In your grade book application, export a student roster and save the roster as a text file if you want QuizManager to try and match names between quiz scores and your application’s student roster.
2. In QuizManager, make sure you’re in the Student Response window for the quiz scores you want to export.
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3. Click Export. The Export Scores window appears, listing the quiz name and the number of students with scores for that quiz.
4. Click Browse to select a roster file, if you exported a roster from your grade book application.
5. Click Export. If you are using a roster file, QuizManager scans the response set and compares the names to the roster. If there is a conflict between the student names listed in QuizManager and the grade book roster, an Export Name Conflict window appears, showing the unmatched name from the response set and the list
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Exporting student quiz scores of names from the roster (with a mark next to names already used).
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Select the name from the roster list to use for the export and click
OK. Alternatively, you can click Skip to bypass exporting that student’s score, click Skip All to bypass exporting all conflicting student names and scores, or click Cancel to stop the export process.
6. In the Save As window, enter a name for the export file and click
Save.
7. In your grade book application, import the export file according to instructions for that program.
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Appendix A
Frequently Asked Questions
How many students can take a quiz on one AlphaSmart device?
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet can hold responses for up to eight students for all quizzes combined. The eight response sets can be distributed among the loaded quizzes in any way. For instance, if two quizzes are loaded and one of them currently has two sets of responses (that is, two students have taken that quiz), the other quiz may have up to six response sets.
How many different quizzes can be loaded onto an
AlphaSmart device?
Up to four different quizzes can be loaded at one time.
Does the student response to a short answer question have to be spelled correctly? Is it case-sensitive?
If you are using QuizManager’s auto-grading capability for a short answer question, the spelling of the response must exactly match one of the teacher-supplied correct answers for the question to be counted as correct. AlphaQuiz allows the designer of a quiz to supply more than one correct answer for a short answer question to accommodate variations in spelling or multiple correct forms (rain, raindrops). Case-sensitivity can be turned on for any short answer question, or a response can even be restricted to be numeric-only.
What happens if a student skips a question?
AlphaQuiz allows students to answer questions in any order they like.
They can skip any question and return to it later. At the end of the
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If I’m using an AlphaHub, and also have an additional available USB port on my computer, can I use both methods of communicating at the same time with QuizManager?
Yes. QuizManager supports AlphaHub communications and a direct
USB connection simultaneously. This allows you to work with up to thirty-one AlphaSmart devices at once with QuizManager.
Can a student spell check an essay question?
Spell Check cannot be used directly within AlphaQuiz, although it can be used in other SmartApplets such as AlphaWord. The person who designs the quiz can enable or disable Spell Check during a quiz.
When enabled, the student can copy text from an essay answer, switch to AlphaWord, and spell check the text there. When disabled, the student cannot spell check text in any SmartApplet. By default,
Spell Check is enabled unless the following settings are checked on the Advanced tab in Quiz Options:
• “Require students to mark quiz as finished” is selected
• “Enable AlphaSmart Spell Checker when taking the quiz” is deselected
• “Enable other AlphaSmart SmartApplets when taking the quiz” is deselected (because Spell Check is available to other
SmartApplets such as AlphaWord)
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What do students do when they complete the quiz?
Press a -F (for “finished”) and the applet returns to the quiz menu.
At this point, the AlphaSmart devices can be connected to the
AlphaHub for retrieval of quiz responses.
Can a student take a quiz twice?
This can be done in either of two ways:
• Delete the responses for that quiz from the AlphaSmart device and have the student take the quiz again.
• Have the student log in using a variation of her name (Betty
Smith-2, for example). Otherwise, if the student’s first set of responses is still on the AlphaSmart device and she logs in with the same name, AlphaQuiz will open the first set of responses again.
Is it possible to print a quiz from the teacher’s computer?
AlphaQuiz provides a range of printing options (Reports), including grading sheets, corrected quizzes, quiz summaries, and statistics.
Each of these report types offers options for information to include.
For example, corrected quizzes may include the correct answer and comments added by the teacher, as well as the student's answer. All reports can be printed directly or saved to a file for additional formatting and printing using a word processing program.
Once an essay question is printed and graded, what capabilities are there to make notes on the student response in QuizManager?
AlphaSmart QuizManager provides a Comments field in which notes on the student’s response can be entered. These will print on the corrected quiz as Teacher Commen ts.
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How and when do I assign the point values for each question?
Point value assignment is part of the quiz grading process; point values may be assigned to quiz questions at any time after responses have been retrieved. When a quiz is designed, every question has the same “weight”—one point. At any time during the quiz grading process, the point values for any or all questions can be reassigned by clicking the Points button and editing the values next to each question. QuizManager will automatically calculate the new points distribution percentages for the quiz.
Can the grades from quizzes be saved as a spreadsheet file or be copied and pasted directly into a tab-delimited grading program?
Yes. The Export feature in QuizManager creates a tab-delimited file that can be opened with a spreadsheet program or imported into a gradebook program. It can also work with a roster exported from a gradebook package, allowing the teacher to manually correlate mismatched names.
In essay responses, will AlphaQuiz highlight or underline key words that were defined when creating the question?
No. That feature isn’t available in AlphaQuiz.
What happens if the AlphaSmart device is turned off before a quiz is completed? What appears on the screen when it is turned back on? How does a student continue with the quiz?
All entered responses are saved when the AlphaSmart device is turned off. When turned back on, the AlphaSmart device starts up in its default SmartApplet, usually AlphaWord. The student would just press applets , select AlphaQuiz, and then log into the quiz again. All responses are preserved and displayed as if the student had never exited the quiz. The only exception to this rule occurs if the
AlphaSmart device is turned off during a quiz that requires the
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student to “mark quiz as finished” and “Block access to all other
SmartApplets during quiz” was selected for the quiz. In this case, the
AlphaSmart device starts up with the message “The other applets including AlphaWord cannot be used because a quiz has not been marked as finished. Press any key to continue…” After pressing a key, the quiz menu appears, and the student can log in to the quiz again at this point.
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Troubleshooting
The QuizManager control bar shows a yellow indicator.
A yellow indicator means that the an AlphaSmart device connected to the AlphaHub or by USB cable to the computer does not have the
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet installed. Send any files that you want to save from the AlphaSmart device to your computer, and use
AlphaSmart Manager to install AlphaQuiz on that AlphaSmart device.
The QuizManager control bar shows a black indicator, but there is an AlphaSmart device connected to the related port or direct USB cable.
There are a few reasons why this situation might occur:
• That AlphaSmart device may be powered off, or may have a version of AlphaWord earlier than v1.4 installed. Make sure the
AlphaSmart device is powered on, and check the version number that appears when the device starts up.
• Some older AlphaSmart 3000s need to be powered on before they are connected to either the hub or the computer. If the device is connected but the indicator is black, disconnect the device, turn it on, and then reconnect it.
• Make sure that QuizManager was properly installed. When installed correctly, the installer loads drivers (required software) for AlphaHub and USB communications. On the Macintosh, you can use the System Profiler to check whether the system software detects the AlphaHub.
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I have a quiz installed on some AlphaSmart devices, and student responses that I have not yet retrieved, but I have accidentally erased the quiz document from my computer.
Now I am unable to retrieve, or even remove, the responses.
In order to recover the responses, use send on the devices from within the quiz to create a copy of the quiz and responses in an
AlphaWord file, or you can directly print responses. Once you have recovered all responses, use QuizManager’s Delete Quiz function to clear the quiz from the AlphaSmart devices. You can then create a new version of the quiz for future use.
I have a quiz installed on some AlphaSmart devices, but I have accidentally erased the quiz document from my computer and I don’t remember the Admin Password. Now I am unable to remove the quiz from the AlphaSmart devices.
If there are any responses for other quizzes stored on the AlphaSmart devices, use QuizManager to retrieve them. Then, print any response sets for the “lost” quiz on each AlphaSmart device, or save each one as an AlphaWord file and transfer it to your computer for archival
(see page 67 for information on printing and saving to an AlphaWord file). You can now delete and reinstall AlphaQuiz using AlphaSmart
Manager; this will remove all quizzes, including the “lost” one.
Follow these steps:
• On the SmartApplets tab in AlphaSmart Manager, select all the
SmartApplets you want to keep on the devices except for
AlphaQuiz and click Add. Check the Delete SmartApplets that are not in the Install List checkbox. Click the Send List tab and click
Send.
• When AlphaSmart Manager finishes sending the SmartApplets to the devices, open a new send list by choosing File > New Send
List. On the SmartApplets tab, select AlphaQuiz and click Add, and remove the check from the Delete SmartApplets checkbox.
Click the Send List tab and click Send.
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Appendix C
Glossary
Automatic grading: QuizManager’s capability to automatically compare student responses to the correct answers defined in a quiz document (.qzz files) for true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions, and to generate scores.
Comments: Question-specific thoughts, feedback, or information entered for each question and each student in QuizManager’s
Grading window. Can be included on Corrected Quiz reports.
Corrected Quiz: A report designed to be handed back to students. It can include the quiz questions, student responses, correct answers, and teacher comments among other elements.
Create a quiz: Compose test questions using QuizDesigner.
Delete a quiz: To clear or erase a quiz (and any associated student responses) from students’ AlphaSmart devices. The teacher does this using QuizManager.
Delete responses: To remove student responses from AlphaSmart devices, while retaining the quiz itself. This is useful after student responses have been retrieved to make room for additional students to take the quiz.
Finished: An option that can be selected during quiz creation that requires students to mark a quiz as finished. If selected, it prevents students from using their AlphaSmart devices for anything else until the quiz is finished.
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Library: A set of questions contained in an AlphaQuiz library document (.qzl files). A library is not limited to a size that can be sent to an AlphaSmart device, and can serve as a repository of questions from which quizzes can be assembled.
Manual grading: The process of scoring questions that cannot be auto-graded by QuizManager; these are essay questions and short answer questions for which correct answers were not provided when creating the quiz. Questions can be manually graded onscreen in
QuizManager’s Grading window, or may be printed using a Grading
Sheet report and graded as hard copy, after which the scores can be entered into QuizManager for inclusion in summary reports.
Mark as finished: A step that students can be required to perform at the end of a quiz to confirm that they have completed the quiz. This can be thought of as equivalent to “handing in” a quiz on paper, and can be helpful in avoiding later misunderstanding as to whether the student intended to answer more questions. The requirement for this step is defined on the Advanced tab of Quiz Options when you create a quiz using QuizDesigner.
Quiz: The set of questions contained in an AlphaQuiz quiz document (.qzz files) that can be downloaded to an AlphaSmart device and administered using the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet.
Quiz access password: A word or phrase students must type into their AlphaSmart devices to enter a quiz. This password is the same for everyone in the class.
Remarks: Reminders, thoughts, references, or suggestions related to a question, and saved with the quiz for the benefit of other users of the quiz, or for future reference. Remarks are entered by the teacher into QuizDesigner and are not seen during the quiz, but may optionally be included on Corrected Quiz reports.
Responses: Student quiz answers.
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Retrieve responses: To transfer student responses from their
AlphaSmart devices into a new or existing saved responses document in QuizManager.
Send quiz: To download a quiz from the teacher’s computer to students’ AlphaSmart devices.
Student password: A personal word or phrase that each student may optionally be required to enter to begin taking a quiz. A student password is created by each student, and it is known only to that student.
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Appendix D
Contact Information
The AlphaSmart web site is a good source of information about products, sales, support, community forums, and latest news. Visit the AlphaSmart web site at www.alphasmart.com (United States) www.alphasmart.co.uk (United Kingdom) www.alphasmart.com/international (all other countries)
If you can’t find the information you’re looking for on the web site, use the contact information listed in this appendix.
United States
Technical questions or problems:
Phone: (888) 274-2720
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.alphasmart.com/support
Purchase AlphaSmart products: Online store: www.alphasmart.com
Phone: (888) 274-0680
General information or sales questions:
Phone: (888) 274-0680
Email: [email protected].
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United Kingdom
Technical questions or problems:
Phone: 0870 120 0718
Email: [email protected]
www.alphasmart.co.uk/support Latest support information:
Purchase AlphaSmart products: www.alphasmart.co.uk/ordering
(This url also provides a list of resellers and
AlphaSmart contacts.)
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Technical questions or problems:
Latest support information:
Phone: +44 870 120 0718
Email: [email protected]
www.alphasmart.eu/support
Select your country or region.
Purchase AlphaSmart products: www.alphasmart.com/international
(This url also provides a list of resellers and
AlphaSmart contacts.)
Asia/Pacific, Canada, Latin America
Technical questions or problems:
Latest support information:
Contact your local reseller. If you do not have a local reseller, email Technical Support at [email protected].
www.alphasmart.com/supportinfo
Select your country or region.
Purchase AlphaSmart products: www.alphasmart.com/international
(This url also provides a list of resellers and
AlphaSmart contacts.)
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Index
A accessing teacher options 69 admin password 23 administering a quiz 8 changing finished status 72 deleting student responses 73
AlphaHub 4 , 8
AlphaQuiz system 2 terminology 4 workflow 2
AlphaSmart devices deleting quizzes 86 display in QuizDesigner 46 indicators 82 powering on/of 91 sending quizzes 83 answers, finding unanswered 65 applying restrictions 6 assigning question points 9 , 92 automatic grading 94
B blank answers 65
C
Calculator 36 , 39 , 73 changing font size 56 changing finished status 72 checking quiz status 71 class number 37 clearing student responses 90 codes for quiz status 71 control bar (Quiz Manager) 82 corrected quiz report 102 creating quizzes 6 customizing prompts 42
D deleting questions 45 quizzes from devices 86 student responses 73 , 90 dragging questions between quizzes 44
E editing questions 7 , 35 essay questions 25 , 33 exporting quiz scores 10 , 107 quizzes 48 extra large font 56
F
FAQs 111 finished status 72 finishing a quiz 40 , 66
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fixed-width font 58 font size 7 changing 56 setting 57 frequently asked questions 111
G
Glossary 119 grading a quiz 94 grading automatically 94 grading sheet 98
I indicator bar 24 indicators for AlphaSmart devices 82 installing
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet 11
AlphaQuiz software 11
J jumping to questions 64
L large font 56 library of questions 52
M marking as finished 40 , 66 medium font 56 modifying quiz prompts 41 monospaced font 58 multiple choice questions 25 , 29
P passwords admin 23 entering 61 quiz access 74 student passwords 39 viewing students’ 72 points, assigning 9 , 92 powering off AlphaSmarts 92 powering on AlphaSmart devices 91 previewing a quiz 46 printing corrected quiz 102 finished quiz 67 grading sheet 98 quiz 50 , 67 quiz summary report 104 reports 97 statistical report 106 printing from Quiz Designer 50 printing reports 10 prompts, modifying 41 proportional font 58 protecting the integrity of a quiz 39
Q question points, assigning 92 questions 28 composing 23 essay 33 multiple choice 29 short answer 31 true/false 27 deleting 45 dragging between quizzes 44 editing 35 jumping between 64 library 52 rearranging 44
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types 25 writing essay 33 writing multiple choice 29 writing short answer 31 writing true/false 28 quiz administering 8 creating new 22 deleting from devices 86 exporting 48 finishing 66 grading 94 marking as finished 40 printing 50 printing from QuizDesigner 50 prompts 41 quiz options 38 saving 26 saving to AlphaWord file 67 sending to devices 8 status 71
Quiz Capacity indicator bar 24
Quiz Questions window 21 quiz scores, exporting 107 quiz summary report 104
QuizDesigner 13
Edit menu 16
File menu 14
Help menu 18
Question menu 16 toolbar 20
QuizManager 75
Communications menu 79 control bar 82
Edit menu 78
File menu 76
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R rearranging questions 44 removing student responses 90 reports 97 printing 97 printing a correct quiz report 102 printing a quiz summary report 104 printing a statistical report 106 reports, printing 10 retrieving student responses 88 reviewing questions on an AlphaSmart device 7
S saving quiz 26 quiz to AlphaWord file 67 scores, exporting 10 screen changing font size 56 sending quizzes to AlphaSmart devices 8 , 83 setting font size 57 short answer questions 25 , 31 shuffling questions 44 small font 56
SmartApplet 55 special situations 68 spell check 7 , 36 , 43 , 112 statistical report 106 status of quizzes 71 storing questions in a library 52 student passwords 39
student quiz scores 107 student responses deleting 73 , 90 retrieving 88 viewing 71 system font 56 , 58 system requirements 10
T taking a quiz 63 entering passwords 61 jumping from question to question 64 marking as finished 66 printing a finished quiz 67 saving quiz to AlphaWord 67 teacher options 69 toolbar, QuizDesigner 20 troubleshooting 117 true/false questions 25 , 27 types of questions 25
U unanswered questions 65
V variable font size 56 very large font 56 viewing
AlphaSmart display 17 , 46 quiz access password 74 student passwords 72 student responses 71
W working with files 56
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