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Exam settings for assignments
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Exam settings for assignments
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Whenever you provide a semester test or exam that is not an open book, remember to use the Batch edit options to hide all content on clickUP during the exam.
When setting clickUP assignments for exam purposes take the following into account:
Assignment settings
Due date
Explanation
Last date and time an assignment can be submitted. clickUP Ultra accepts and marks late submissions received after the due date. Students can resume any attempt saved before the due date. Students who submit an attempt after the due date will have their submission marked as late.
Due dates are automatically added to the student's Calendar, Gradebook, and the Activity Stream.
If students have submitted attempts, you cannot change the due date to a date in the past. You can only change (edit) it to a date in the future.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Set the Due date and time. To hide the assignment from the student view, set a Hide after date and time (Set at Release Conditions for the assignment). If a timer is activated for the assignment, any time added as additional time in Accommodations (Set at Roster/Gradebook) for individual students, based on a percentage of extra time allocated to them. Percentages: 5 min per hour = 9% 10 min per hour = 17% 15 min per hour = 25%. | Set the Due date and time. To hide the assignment from the student's view, set a Hide after date and time (Set at Release Conditions for the assignment). If a timer is activated for the assignment, any time added as additional time in Accommodations (Set at Roster/Gradebook) for individual students, based on a percentage of extra time allocated to them. Percentages: 5 min per hour = 9% 10 min per hour = 17% 15 min per hour = 25%. |
| Exceptions (Set at Submission tab of Assessment while students write): You can add extra time to individual students/group per assessment. | Exceptions (Set at Submission tab of Assessment while students write): You can add extra time to due date exception for individual students/group per assessment. (If you have many students who need extra time, consider creating a group and use that to set the exception.) |
Prohibit late submissions
Explanation
Enforces a hard deadline (overrides the timer) and prevents a late submission. (Students who started late on a timed assessment will not be able to continue with the assessment after the due date. The timer will indicate how much time the student has left until the Due date lapses)
- In-progress and saved (draft) attempts will auto-submit at the due date.
- If the Prohibit late submission option is activated, it will override the extra time setting of the timer. (Yes, you can now set a timer on an assignment as well)
- Students will receive a submission receipt email.
- Specified accommodations are still honored.
- If the due date has passed, you can't select the Prohibit late submission setting.
Prohibit late submissions does not work in combination with the following assessment types:
- Peer review
- Group submissions
- Offline submissions
- LTI tools (e.g. Turnitin, Numbas, Gradescope, etc.)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Required for assessments taken within computer laboratories. | Required for examinations taken within computer laboratories. |
| If load shedding is expected, do not select this option. | If load shedding is expected, do not select this option. |
Prohibit new attempts after due date
Explanation
Prevent students from beginning a new attempt after the due date. Specified accommodations are still honored.
Prohibit new attempts after due date setting enabled on its own does not work with the following assessment types:
- Peer review
- Offline submissions
- LTI tools (e.g. Turnitin, Numbas, Gradescope, etc.)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Recommended | Required. Always tick this to prevent students from starting the examination after the due date. |
Allow class conversations
Explanation
Students can discuss the assignment with you and their classmates while the assignment is available. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Leave unticked unless it is closely monitored during the assessment or the assessment requires collaboration. | Leave unticked unless it is closely monitored during the exam. |
Collect submissions offline
Explanation
Use this setting when the students will submit a hard copy written exam but you still want to use a rubric to grade the clickUP Ultra exam assignment. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Select if needed | Select if needed |
Formative tools
Formative assessment
Explanation
All exams are summative assessments. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Do not select | Do not select |
Display formative label to students
Explanation
All exams are summative assessments. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Do not select | Do not select |
Grading & Submissions
Change the Grade category
Explanation
This setting is used to allocate the assignment to the correct grade category. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Choose the Grade category that applies (Assignment) or create a new category for this assignment for example, Semester Test. | Set the Grade category to Exam. |
Attempts allowed
Explanation
This setting determine the number of attempts. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| It is recommend to never clear attempts (in cases where student submits by mistake), instead provide an additional attempt to individual students with Exceptions. | Set to 1. It is recommend to never clear attempts (in cases where student submits by mistake), instead provide an additional attempt to individual students with Exceptions. |
Grade using
Explanation
Select the applicable grading schema. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Always use the Point or Percentage Grading Schema | Always use the Point or Percentage Grading Schema |
Maximum points
Explanation
Add a number value between 0 and 99,999 for your assignment. If you leave this field blank, the number will default to 100.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Add the maximum points possible for the assignment | Add the maximum points possible for the assignment |
Anonymous grading - Hide students names
Explanation
Student names are not shown during marking. You may only add text and files to anonymously graded assignments.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| NEVER select for semester tests | NEVER select for examinations |
Evaluation options
Two graders per student
Explanation
Two graders have to mark the SAME student’s work. This process requires marks from both graders to be reconciled by a Reconciler. Read more…
Peer review
Explanation
Peer review allows students to review their peers’ work through criteria-based evaluation.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Peer review is not suitable for semester tests | Peer review is not suitable for examinations |
Delegated Grading (Ultra Smart Views)
Explanation
Only available for individual assignments. Read more…
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Recommended for large classes with multiple markers | Recommended for large classes with multiple markers |
Assessment grade
Post assessment grades automatically
Explanation
Automatically post a student's grade once grading is completed.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Never select this option. Only post all grades once all assignments are graded and perusals are completed. | NEVER select this option. NEVER post grades of examinations. |
Display of assessment results to students
Explanation
Only available when questions are added. See description of these settings under Exam settings for Tests.
Assessment security
Explanation
Issue an access code to control the access to a clickUP Ultra assignment. Students can only receive the access code from you or other staff you choose to give it to. (Read more ...)
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Good idea to use it when students are taking the assessment in a lab setting. | Good idea to use it. Change the access code 30 minutes after the examination starts to prevent students from starting the assessment late. |
Additional Tools
Time limit
Each student has a limited amount of time to submit. Time limits can only be added to individual (not group) assignmentstests.
Take note!
You CAN NOT edit the time limit after students have started their submissions.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Set the correct number of minutes for your assessment | Set the correct number of minutes for your examination |
Work is automatically saved and submitted when time expires
The assignment attempts are saved and submitted automatically when the timer has run out.
If Prohibited late submissions was selected, it will overwrite the timer if the student started late
Students have extra time to work after the time limit expires
Students can continue with the assessment after the timer ran out. Once the extra time runs out also, the in progress and draft submissions are submitted, EXCEPT when Unlimited extra time is allowed after the timer expired. Read more ....
Use grading rubric
A rubric serves as a scoring mechanism for assessing graded work. Read more ...
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Recommended | Recommended |
Assigned groups
Create an assignment for groups of students. By default, you assign a grade to each group as a whole, but you can change a group member's individual grade.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Not advised. ASSESSMENT POLICY: S 5127/22; 5.8 “Group assessments give students the opportunity to develop their teamwork skills and improve learning through discussions and collaborative task completion. This could and should be an important part of the learning process but is not recommended as a summative assessment approach because of the integrity issues related to the measurement of individual learning and different levels of participation of group members. Although group assessment and peer assessment reduce the grading workload of teachers, it is not an objective and reliable assessment of individual student competency and should not be used for summative assessment purposes”. |
Description
Explanation
The text you enter here displays to students below the link to the assignment on the Course Content page. This is where you can provide students with more information about the assignment. The maximum length of a description is 750 characters. A warning will appear below the description field when 75 characters or less remain.
**Suggestion: **add the integrity statement for the exam assignment as below:
The University of Pretoria commits itself to producing academic work of integrity. I affirm that I am aware of and have read the Rules and Policies of the University, more specifically the Disciplinary Procedure and the Tests and Examinations Rules, which prohibit any unethical, dishonest, or improper conduct during tests, assignments, examinations, and/or any other forms of assessment. I am aware that no student or any other person may assist or attempt to assist another student, or obtain help, or attempt to obtain help from another student or any other person during tests, assessments, assignments, examinations, and/or any other forms of assessment.
Visibility settings of an assignment
Visible to students
The assignment is fully available to students without any restrictions.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Choose if there are no restrictions on access to the assignment | Do not use |
Hidden from students
Students cannot see or access the assignment.
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Use until an assignment is fully created. | Use until an assignment is fully created. |
Release conditions
Assignment is made available based on set rules. Read more ...
| How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
|---|---|
| Set release conditions as required. Show the link of the assignment to students before it is available for them to access, to indicate that it is created already. | Set release conditions as required. Show the link of the assignment to students before it is available for them to access, to indicate that it is created already. |
Writing in a lab, not allowing any late submissions:
- If Prohibit late submission is ticked, the in-progress and draft assessments are saved on the due date. It overrides the timer no matter how much time is still available on the timer of a student’s assessment.
- If the timer option is selected (without Prohibit late submission), the following applies: whether set to Work is automatically saved and submitted when time expires OR Students have extra time to work after the time limit expires, the in-progress and drafts of students are saved when the time runs out, with the exception being when unlimited extra time is permitted after the timer expires.
- When a timer is set, it begins counting down once the student initiates it by clicking the start button. This countdown will continue uninterrupted, even in the event of a loss of connection on the student's end.
To accommodate potential issues such as load shedding and ensure students can continue with an assessment, you have two options:
- Set a Due date that allows enough time for students to write the assessment, without adding a timer. PLUS select Prohibit late submission to enable the system to autosubmit all in-progress and draft submissions. (Result:
- Students can start and continue assessment until Due Date,
- no late submissions allowed
- system will auto-submit in-progress and draft submissions on Due Date)
OR
- Set a Due date with a timer, without selecting Prohibit late submission. On the timer select the option to allow students extra time to complete the assessment. With this option, you will have visibility into which questions were answered after the due date or after the timer expired. If you allocate extra time of 50% or 100%, the system will automatically submit students' in-progress or draft assessments. DO NOT set the extra time to allow unlimited extra time, as neither you nor the system will be able to submit students' in-progress or draft assessments. Only the student can submit their work in this case. (Result:
- Students can start and continue assessment after the Due Date (late submissions allowed),
- timer will continue counting down if the student loses connection,
- system will auto-submit in-progress and draft submissions, after extra time expired (if set to 50% or 100%)
Also remember
- Lecturers cannot submit clickUP Ultra assignments on behalf of students.
- Students can submit after the due date if allowed.
- If you have Automatic Zeros selected in the Gradebook Settings, students who have not submitted by the due date will get zero for the assessment.
Visual representations of system actions with various combinations of settings
This is only applicable for timed clickUP Ultra assignments.
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