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Step 1: To create a new assignment, go to the Assignments container and click on the New assignment button where you can enter a title and a description:
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Step 2: By clicking 'Create', you will then be inside your new assignment to add items and questions (click on 'Add an Item' button):
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Step 5: By clicking 'Add new' (blue + button), you will be presented with different question types to add to your assignment:
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Step 6: After you have selected the question type, you will then see your question template ready to be edited:
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Step 8: Once saved, click 'Go to assessment assignment set up' to return to your assignment and add subsequent Items:
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Step 9 (Optional): It is possible to add features to an Item of your assignment (such as a calculator etc). When creating an Item, select the Features button to add any of the features below relevant to your Item.:
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Step 10: Having added all of your Items, you can decide the configuration of the assignment as a whole (i.e shuffle Items etc). This is done by clicking the button with the wrench symbol:
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You will then see the following screen:
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Shuffle Items: This will make all the sections appear in random order for each participant.
Negative scores: This will allow questions to have negative scores if penalties are used. This is activated per default on all new assignments.
Reading mode: This sets a period at the beginning where the participants only have reading access to the assignment.
No backward navigation: This option makes it impossible for the participants to return to a previous question. It will also affect reading mode if that option is activated.
Information page: If activated, it will add a text editor below where you can add information that the participants need to read before the exam starts. The information will be shown in a separate start page for the participants.
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In the assignment, click Flow Versions and Create flow version button (a reference code will be generated that you will use to paste and attach to a flow):
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Every time the assignment is updated, you can create a new Flow version. You can enter notes for the version you are about to create, then click on Create flow version for your reference.
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Step 12: Click the Flow version reference (highlighted in grey) to copy the code:
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Step 13: You have two options for attaching the assignment to a flow - via the Author route or Manager route:
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Step 1: In Author Overview page under the Assignments tab, click on Assignments (legacy):
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Step 2: Click the green +New assignment button.
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Step 3: Enter the assignment details on the screen:
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Enter the Title of the new assignment. (Max. length of 50 characters currently).
Optionally Add description.
Optionally Add tags (Advisable, as this will enable the search function; e.g. History; Maths. Use underscore to create a tab with multiple words e.g. 'Earth_Sciences').
Step 4: Click on the Next button. select File based assignment and click on the green Create button.
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Step 5: Click Add files to upload the file assignment:
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On your Moodle course: Click Administration>Quiz Administration>Question bank>Export
Select Moodle XMLf format
Select the appropriate category (e.g. a purpose built AssessmentUCL category or a previously used category)
Click Export questions to file
Save your file
Figure 1: Exporting questions from Moodle.
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Open AssessmentUCL, go to Author tab and select the Content bank
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Click import content
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Select Moodle from the drop down menu and select file and find the Moodle XML file you exported. Once uploaded, check for any error messages and click Import
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Step 4: Check questions
Preview and tag your questions to ensure they have been copied successfully.
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You may encounter error messages such as follows
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This is a result of AssessmentUCL requiring XHTML formatting, including closed element tags e.g. <br/> is allowed but <br> is not. UCL has raised this with supplier to improve. For now the work around is as follows:
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4. Exporting questions from Wiseflow to Moodle
Please see the heading WISEflow article on 'Exporting Assignments or Items' in the Wiseflow guidance here.
5. Attaching an assignment to an assessment
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In the Authoring Overview page, under the Assignments heading, select 'Go to assignments':
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NB: If you have not been added to an author group which has been linked to an assessment flow, you need to ask your team who the author is and ask them to add you to the author group.
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Step 6: Under Active Flows, click on the assessment (flow) that you want to add the assignment to:
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NB: if you do not see your assessment here, it is likely that you are not an Author on the assessment itself. Contact the Manager of the assessment to add you as an Author.
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Step 7: Details of the assessment will appear, including a box for you to paste the reference code of the assignment that you have copied. Paste the code into the box highlighted and then select the Attach button:
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Step 8: Once attached, the assignment will appear in blue:
You can also preview this assignment (selecting the eye icon) or delete it (trash bin icon).
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Step 1: In the To be handed out tab, click the ‘Add assignment’ button:
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Step 2: Copy and paste the unique assignment reference (provided by the Author who created the online assignment) and click Add assignment:
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Step 3: The assignment has now been attached to your assessment – you will be able to see the title of the assignment and the person who authored the assignment. You also have the option to preview or remove the assignment:
Optional: Previewing assignment to an assessment
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The assignment opens in a separate browser tab when previewed as a participant. This feature allows authors to see the assignment from the students' perspective (helpful when testing areas such as the layout and formatting of questions):
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Creating & Attaching a Rubric
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Step 3: You will enter into this screen:
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Enter the following details:
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Step 5: There will be a blue bar on the screen representing your rubric as shown below:
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As it is a new rubric, you have the following tools available to edit your new standard rubric via the icons shown under the blue bar and described below:
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Step 1: Select Publish on your rubric:
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Step 2: Select Approve. The published rubrics will show up in the published rubrics list at the bottom of the page
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Click the rubric name to quickly copy the reference ID to add the rubric to a flow.
As a default rubrics are initially not shared with anyone. You can decide to either share a rubric with everyone on the licence (All) or share with specific authors (Shared).
The icon indicates whether the content, i.e. rubric, is owned by you or someone else (initials will be shown).
Preview the published rubric or use one of the actions:
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3. Attach a rubric to a flow
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Step 3: Click on the flow you wish to add your rubric to. Under the Rubrics heading (or Assignment heading if adding an assignment), you can paste the reference code and click Attach:
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For further guidance, please read this Author: Adding an assignment and a rubric to a flow article in full.
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Add questions (Items) to content bank. Adding a new Item to the content is very similar to creating a section in an assignment
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From the Content bank overview above, you click on Add an Item.
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To create questions within your Content bank Item, click Add new. The process of questions and set up is the same as the previous steps in the assignment section.
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Open your existing or newly created assignment and click Add new Item and then select From content bank as shown below.
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This will take you to your content bank view, and you can select the Items you want to add to your assignment.
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How many Items you have selected from the Content bank.
Save or cancel your selections.
You can preview the Item and select the Item you want to add to your assignment.
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Below shows the difference to how a content bank added Item will look in your assignment
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Tells you if there is a relation with this Item to the content bank.
Warns you if the Item has been amended in the content bank.
Tells you if the Item was changed in the content bank before you last saved the
assignment.
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Your flows are listed in two halves of the screen. The top half lists your Active flows. While your Archived flows appear in the bottom half.
Active flows
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By clicking the small arrow, you can fold out the flow and see the details. In the bottom, you have the option of adding an assignment reference code directly and attaching it to the flow.
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Authoring groups allow you to add co-authors to collaborate on assignments. The authors are defined by two categories, the owner of the group and collaborators.
Creating a new Authoring group
To access the Authoring group section, click on Manage author groups from your Authoring Overview. This view will show your existing authoring groups and you can also create a new author group by clicking Create new Authoring group as shown below:
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After selecting to create a new Authoring group, you will now be able to add a title and description also add co-authors who will be your collaborators on the Authoring group.
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You can edit the title and description of the Authoring group.
You can add your Co-authors to the Authoring group.
Current authors in your Authoring group will appear in this section.
Adding an authoring group to an assignment or section
Once you have created an Authoring group, you are able to add that Authoring group to an assignment or Item.
When inside the assignment or the section, you will see there is a button to add an Authoring group, as shown below:
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Assignments (legacy)
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