Building an assessment

Overview

In Glasshouse, Assessment page is designed for the assessment of the learners’ knowledge.

When the learner does not answer all of the questions or skipped some questions, it will not affect the number of attempts nor calculate the score. It will show the questions which were missed by the learner and guide them to navigate for answering those questions and then submit.

When the learner fails an attempt, the learner will be shown which questions were missed so the learner can have a review. The learner then needs to re-attempt the assessment with a different set of random questions, until the learner reaches the maximum number of allowed attempts or until he passes.

Basic setup of an Assessment Page

Keyboard Key	Action
Space	Pause or play video
Enter	Select the currently focused item When nothing is in focus, this key pauses or plays the video. Pause or play video
Down and Up arrows	Increase or decrease volume by 10% Navigate items in a submenu
Left and Right arrows	Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds. Move focus from an item in a submenu to the menu bar
0-9	Fast seek to x% of the video
c	Toggle captions off, on, or cycle through the available tracks
f	Enter or exit fullscreen
m	Mute or unmute video volume

Click on Add new at the top of the Tree management section.
Select a location for the page in the Choose where to create this page dropdown menu.
Select Assessment from the Page type options.
Click Create.
Interactive blocks are needed to add to layout blocks. Each layout block acts as a topic and you can choose how many blocks to show for each topic.
Create layout blocks and add children in a way you would normally. The blocks that work with assessments are MCQ Buttons, MCQ dropdown blocks and Interactive Table Blocks.
After creating all the questions, go to the Assessment tab in the menu (inside the layout block).
By default all questions are shown. If you want to randomise, type in how many questions you would like to show for every attempt in the Number of blocks to show in randomly section.
Click Save and Publish

Options

There are several options you can set up to customise the presentation of your assessment page. Go to the Assessment’s main page and in the menu select Assessment.

Number of attempts the learner is allowed?

Set up how many attempts a learner can be allowed to take the assessment by adding a number in Number of attempts the learner is allowed?. When this is set to zero it means the number of attempts is unlimited

Required percentage of correct answer to pass the assessment

Set the passing score by entering a percentage in Required percentage of correct answer to pass the assessment

Feedback

You can customise the feedback to notify the learner when he passed or failed the assessment. In this section, you can write the prompt you want to show the learner.
e.g. Passed: Congratulations you have passed the assessment!
e.g. Failed: You have not answered the required number of questions correctly.

Introduction to the review section

This is a section where the missed questions are presented to the learner after the submission. Type the text you want to prompt the learners which questions were answered incorrectly
e.g. The following are the questions you have answered incorrectly

Maximum number of attempts reached

Write a text prompt when the learner has attempted more than allowed attempts

No all questions have been attempted

Write a text prompt when the learner did not answer all questions, this will also show which questions were missed.

Submit button text

In this section, you can customise the text for the Submit button when the learner is going to submit his answers
e.g. Submit now

Re-attempt button text

In this section, you can customise the text for the Re-attempt button when the learner failed the previous attempt and has to retake the assessment.
e.g. Try again

Advanced Options

In glasshouse Assessment page, there are few advanced features that you can use.

Start in the Main page and go to the Assessment Menu, scroll down to the bottom and click the dropdown menu for Advanced

Show the QR code generate form - by toggling this feature, when a learner passed the assessment it will ask the learner to input their name and generate a unique QR code. This is a confirmation that he passed the assessment.
Show the QR code decode block - by toggling this feature, you can decode the QR code by typing in the encrypted code string (this is obtained when scanning the QR code). It will then show the learner’s name and date of completion
Hide submit attempts button - you can hide the submit attempt buttons by toggling this feature. This is mainly used for the administrator’s page when decoding the QR code
Hide questions feedback shown to learners - the feedback for each question can be hidden by this feature
Show visual chart - this feature will show the learner a graph of his score in percentage and the number of attempts he has committed

Example

Here's an example of how an Assessment page looks from the front-end.

Here's an example of how an Assessment page looks from the back-end.