In an essay question, the student can write the answer in the text editor and also add an attachment to it if necessary.
Creating a question
Basic information of the question
- Select Essay question as a question type.
- Add question text, i.e. description. You can format the text by using the text editor tools. It's not possible to embed an image in a question, it must be added as an attachment.
Question assessment/feedback
- You can define a recommended response length in words for the answer. Note! In the exam, this is shown to the student as recommendation, but the student still can write more words in the answer.
- As a grading scale, you can select either Points or Pass / Fail. If you select Points, also define Question maximum grade (if using a decimal number, use a point as a decimal separator, e.g. 1.5).
Additional information of the question
- You can add other owners to the question (the question will appear in their question bank and they can edit it). Find the user you want to add as an owner of the question and click the Add button. The question owner has full rights to edit the question, even if it is in another owner's question bank.
- You can add an attachment to the question, which the student can open in the exam. Note! Add an attachment in pdf, Word or image format (for other file formats, please check the software options of the exam computers). Do not use web links in the question or attachment, as access to the web from the exam computer is blocked.
- You can write question instructions which will be displayed to the student during the exam.
- You can write assessment criteria, which will be shown to the evaluators while assessing the exam. These are not visible for students.
- You can add tags to categorize questions and make them easier to find in the question bank.
Saving a question
When you Save the question, it will be added to the exam. Note! If you have created the question in a question bank, you still need to add the question to the exam.
Assessing the essay question in the exam
Below is a view of the essay question assessment.
- First you can see the question and the question instructions if you have added them.
- Below the question and it's instructions are the student's answer for the question.
- In the Point section you will see the grading scale you have defined for the exam and in the field below it you can enter the points of the answer (positive number, also decimals with point as a decimal separator are accepted, e.g. 30.5).
- You can see the length of the student's exam answer in words and characters, as well as the recommended length for the essay.
- You can Give feedback to the student (if you can't see the text editor, click the arrow in front of the word "Give feedback to the student"). You can also Attach file to the feedback. Remember to save feedback if you add some.
- You can also assess the chosen essays by question. See the instructions from the EXAM – Assesment by questions page.
