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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.
When setting tests for exam purposes take the following into account:
Test settings
Due date
Explanation
Last date and time a test can be submitted. clickUP Ultra experience accepts and marks late submissions received after the due date. This means a student can resume any attempt saved before the due date. This supports a scenario where the student experiences a disruption during the assessment. 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 their Activity Stream.
If students have submitted attempts, you cannot change the due date to a date in the past. You can only change it to a date in the future.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Set the Due date and time to be the same as the Hide after date and time (Set at Release Conditions for the test) + 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. | Set the Due date and time to be the same as the Hide after date and time (Set at Release Conditions of the test) + any time added as additional time in Accommodations 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% | 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. |
Prohibit late submissions
Explanation
Enforces a hard deadline (overrides the timer) and prevents a late submission.
(Students who started late on a timed assessment can not continue with the assessment after the due date. The timer will display the remaining time until the Due date expires.)
- In-progress and saved (draft) attempts will auto-submit at the due date.
- If the Prohibit late submission option was activated, it will override the extra time setting of the timer.
- 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.
- 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 |
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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 |
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Recommended | Required. Always tick this to prevent students from starting the examination after the due date. |
Allow class conversations
Explanation
Students can discuss the test with you and their classmates while the test is available.
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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. |
Presentation of the test to students
Display one question at a time
Explanation
A single question is displayed at a time and reduce cognitive load. Students can skip questions with this option enabled unless Prohibit backtracking is enabled. If you have multiple pages in your test, enabling Display one question at a time will combine these pages into one.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Prohibit backtracking
Explanation
Prohibit a student from navigating back to earlier test questions. This option is also available for paged tests, in which case enabling this option prevents students from navigating back to earlier test pages.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Randomize questions
Explanation
Randomises the sequence in which questions are displayed for each student.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Randomise answers
Explanation
Randomizes the sequence in which answers for Matching and Multiple Choice questions are displayed for each student.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Randomise pages
Explanation
If your test includes questions across multiple pages (for example, a page of Multiple Choice questions followed by a page with Essay questions), this option randomises the order in which these pages are displayed.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Do not randomise first page
Explanation
If your test is set to randomise pages, this option allows you to lock the first page in place. This is useful, for example, if the first page of the test includes instructions.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the assessment. | Choose how you want to display the questions to the students during the examination. |
Grading & Submissions
Change the Grade category
Explanation
You can change the test's Grade category to be part of one of the custom gradebook categories you set up in your course. You can use the default and custom categories when you set up the Current Grade. Grade categories can be changed at any time.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Choose the Grade category that applies. | Set the Grade category to Exam |
Attempts allowed - Determine the number of attempts
Explanation
You can let your students submit more than one attempt at a test.
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It is recommended to never clear attempts (in cases where a student submits by mistake), instead provide an additional attempt to individual students under Exceptions | **Set to 1 ** It is recommended to never clear attempts (in cases where student submits by mistake), instead provide an additional attempt to individual students under Exceptions |
Grade using - Select the grading schema
Explanation
A test's score consists of the sum total of all the questions' points. You can change the grading schema at any time and the change will appear to students and in your Gradebook.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Always use the Point or Percentage Grading Schema | Always use the Point or Percentage Grading Schema |
Maximum points
Explanation
If you create a test that only consists of text blocks, you can manually set the maximum score. Otherwise, edit the points value of individual questions.
Anonymous grading - Hide student names
Explanation
Student names are not shown during marking
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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. Graders cannot see other graders marks or feedback. They cannot post grades, but only provide provisional grades. The reconciler has to review the marks assigned by all assessors to each student and reconcile the marks. Reconcilers can see the marks and feedback of graders, but not the rubrics and annotations. Students only see the marks and feedback from the reconciler. They see nothing from the individual graders. Read more…
Delegated Grading (Ultra Smart Views)
Explanation
Only available for essay questions in tests and individual assignments. Groups of students have to be set per grader before this can be activated. Read more…
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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. Turn the setting off.
Only post all grades once all tests are graded and perusals are completed.
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Never select this option when you have Question Types that need to be graded manually, e.g. Essay questions | NEVER Select |
NEVER post grades of examinations |
Display of Assessment results to students
Submission View
Explanation
Allow students to view their submission. Preserves the academic integrity of the test questions. When switched off, students can only see the test questions when they are taking the test.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Click on the link below Submission View to change the settings. Choose from the dropdown list when students can see their submissions, feedback, scores, and answers. To prevent students from sharing questions with others who are still busy with the assessment, or still have to write the assessment, use either After due date / After all grades have been posted / On Specific date | Click on the link below Submission View to change the settings. Then UNTICK Allow students to view their submission. No results may be shown to students after an examination. |
Automated Question Feedback
Explanation
Provides feedback set per question to students that is released automatically based on your settings.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Click on the link below Submission View to change the settings. Choose from the dropdown list when students can see their submissions, feedback, scores, and answers. To prevent students from sharing questions with others who are still busy with the assessment, or still have to write the assessment, use either After due date / After all grades have been posted / On Specific date | Do not select |
Question Scores
Explanation
Provides the individual scores for each question of a student's test.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Click on the link below Submission View to change the settings. Choose from the dropdown list when students can see their submissions, feedback, scores, and answers. To prevent students from sharing questions with others who are still busy with the assessment, or still have to write the assessment, use either After due date / After all grades have been posted / On Specific date | Do not select |
Correct Answers
Explanation
Allow students to see the correct answers to automatically scored questions after they submit.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Click on the link below Submission View to change the settings. Choose from the dropdown list when students can see their submissions, feedback, scores, and answers. To prevent students from sharing questions with others who are still busy with the assessment, or still have to write the assessment, use either After due date / After all grades have been posted / On Specific date | Do not select |
Assessment security
Explanation
Issue an access code to control when students and groups take a test. Access codes are generated randomly by the system. If activated, remember to provide students with the code. The access code isn't stored anywhere in the system. Students can only receive the access code from you or other roles you choose to give it to. You can change the access code as needed and let students know.
Students can use the same code if they save the assessment and want to return later. Students don't need the access code to view the grades and feedback you post.
How to use in Semester Tests | How to use in Examinations |
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Good idea to use it when students are taking the test 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
Explanation
Each student has a limited amount of time to submit. Time limits can only be added to individual (not group) tests.
You CAN NOT edit the time limit after students have started their submissions
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Set the correct number of minutes for your assessment | Set the correct number of minutes for your exam |
Work is automatically saved and submitted when time expires
Explanation
The test 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
Explanation
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 expires.
If the Prohibit late submission option was activated, it will override the extra time setting of the timer.
Submissions over time is NOT indicated as Late on the grade list view. When you grade tests, you can see how much extra time each student used to complete the test. You can also see which questions were answered after the initial time limit. Students also see this same information when they access their graded tests.
Additional time allows students to reconnect if they lose connectivity during their attempts. You can allow extra time to see if the original time you set is enough for students to read and answer all the questions
Assigned groups
Explanation
Create a test 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.
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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.
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%)
Lecturers cannot submit clickUP Ultra tests on behalf of students.
Students can submit after the due date.
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