Assessments

Assessments is one of the main tools available in LMS to measure the performance of the student in a training. In the Admin Portal Content editor you can set up some Activities within a Course to be evaluable. So when the user passes them he will be rewarded with a score based on his performance, and as administrator you can check his academic results in the Reports tool. In this article you will see what kind of activities you can evaluate and how to set them up.

In order for the Assessments tool to be available, it is necessary to activate the sprint (course) evaluation feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket.

Difference between completing and overcoming

First of all it is necessary to clarify the difference between completing a course and overcoming it:

An activity is considered as Completed when the student achieves the completeness criterion marked when editing the activity, in the Gamify activity section.

If none is selected, the default criteria is that the activity is completed simply by opening it. Depending on the type, there are several options:
- When opening the activity.
- When overcoming the activity, depending on the assessment criteria.
- Upon completion of the activity (for SCORM/xAPI activities), according to the criteria set by the xAPI file.
- Correctly answer the questions in the activity for Question set type activities or activities with integrated questions.
- Trainer marks activity as completed, even if the student completes the activity, it is not considered completed until the trainer approves it through an external tool.
In order for the Grade established by trainer option to be available, it is necessary to activate the Activity assessment via API feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket.

Text Block, Image, Audio and Timeline type activities do not have completion criteria because they do not have any interaction with the student, therefore they cannot be gamified.
An activity is considered as Overcome when the student reaches the cut-off score, that is, when he passes the Assessment criteria.

The difference is that a course can be overcome but not completed, if the cut-off score is reached but some activities have not been completed. Or vice versa, it can be completed but not overcome if all the activities have been completed (for example, just by opening them), but the overall cut-off score has not been reached.

Activate assessments

All activities can be evaluated, except for those that cannot be gamified because they have no user interaction. The first step is to set up the assessment in the Course details tab, when creating a new course or modifying an existing one.

If you are editing an already created course, the assessment can only be activated if the course has not been published, that is, if its status is Draft. If it is Unpublished, this option is disabled.

In the Course Details tab, activate the Assessment flag and the course activities will show this option, otherwise it will not be enabled. The student's score will be a value between 1 and 100, and is determined automatically by the system, although you can set it to be subject to approval by the administrator.

You can also mark a Cut-off score, that is, the score that the student must reach to overcome the course. The default cut-off score is 100, which means the student must achieve the total score to overcome the course.

Set up the assessment

Now you can activate and set up the assessment for the activities you want. Regarding the score awarded for each activity, the total points are divided by the number of evaluable activities in the course. For example, if there are 2 evaluable activities, each one will award 50 points (100/2 = 50). The final grade is rounded up without decimals, if the student has overcome 2 out of 3 activities in total, the grade will be 66.6 → 67.

To activate the assessment in an activity, click on the icon in the upper corner.

A side menu is displayed with the flag to activate or deactivate it. Depending on the type of activity there are one or several options:

Automatic, when the student completes the activity it is considered as overcome and the total score is awarded. In the previous example of a course with 2 evaluable activities, 50 points are automatically awarded.
Automatic, depends on score sent by content. This option is available for activities that provide student assessment data (xAPI, Question set, or activities with integrated questions). Depending on the student's performance, a percentage of the total score of the activity is awarded. In the above example of a course with 2 evaluable activities, if the student has answered half of the questions correctly, he is awarded half of the score, 25 points.
Grade established by trainer, even if the student overcomes the activity, the score is not automatically added until it has been approved by the trainer through an external tool.

In order for the Grade established by trainer option to be available, it is necessary to activate the Activity assessment via API feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket.

Assessment type by activity

Activities that cannot be gamified because they have no interaction, cannot be evaluated either: text block, image, audio and timeline. Besides, only those that provide assessment data have the Depends on score sent by content option available. You can see each case in this summary table:

Activity type Can be completed Can be gamified Can be overcome Depending on score assessment Text block No No No No Image File Yes Yes Yes Automatic only External SCORM/xAPI Yes Video If it has integrated questions Audio No No No Course presentation Yes Yes If it has integrated questions Question set Yes Timeline No No No