This post comes from motivation provided by Tara Morcom! Tara is one of the three amazing instructional coaches at McCaskey. We were discussing Schoology and assessment tools came up. Since our district has the Enterprise version of Schoology, we have access to the enhanced Schoology assessment features. Tara shared her desire to get information about these awesome assessment tools shared out so I thought this would be a great opportunity to write a post about some of the really cool features that we have access to as Schoology enterprise users! For this post, we’re going to take a look at the three highlight assessment types; highlight hotspot, image and text.
Highlight Hotspot The highlight hotspot enables you to upload images and define regions (hotspots) in that image for student validation. This is a great tool to use for identifying parts out of a whole. Application of this tool in the classroom could include cell structure, anatomy, geography and just about anything where you’d want students to identify sections or regions of something. When creating an assessment question using this feature, you’ll want to create multiple highlighted sections so that students will need to select the correct section out of given choices. If you want to ask multiple questions using the same highlighted hotspot template, you can copy the question and rewrite the question. This saves valuable time when creating highlight hotspot activities. If you’d like to learn more about creating your own, here’s a YouTube video explaining how to create a set of highlight hotspot questions. Highlight Image This feature allows your students to annotate an image. When students submit this type of assessment question, you get a copy of all of the mark ups they made on the problem. The best part is that you have access to a “Replay” button where you can view the process that your students took to solve a specific problem after they submit their work. This feature allows you to identify misconceptions and reteach if necessary. This is tool is great to use when you want students to show their work. Short answers, math problems, labeling, matching and annotating are a few ways this could be utilized. In order to create an assessment question using highlight image, all you’ll need is an image or screenshot to upload as your question. Once published, they’ll be able to annotate directly on this image in the assessment. To learn more, here’s a one-minute how to video. Highlight Text Need students to identify certain words, sentences or paragraphs in a selection of text? Use the highlight text assessment tool. Add your question and paste your text into the question setup field. The text automatically copies to the correct answer field selection. Select the words or phrases that you want students to choose based on the question type. This works great for identifying parts of speech, figurative language, sentence types, poetic elements, theme, main idea, etc! So many options. You can also decide if you’d like to provide partial credit if students need to identify more than one element. Learn more about creating this assessment type on this website. Need help with any of these assessment features? Reach out to SDOLTECH!
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