Assessments

Assessments can be used to determine how well students understand course material, and can be automatically or manually graded. Codio offers a wide range of assessment types, including auto-graded code tests, multiple choice tests, fill in the blanks, drop-down selection, free text responses, and assignment grading. Assessments can be interspersed throughout tutorial materials or stand alone using an assignment level script.

You can view the results of assessments in a course from the teacher dashboard.

Assessment Topics

• Ungraded Assessments

• Add a New Assessment

• Edit an Assessment

• Edit Points for an Assessment

• Delete an Assessment

• Assessment Security

Common Assessment Configuration

The following configuration options are common to all assessment types:

General Settings

• Name - Enter a short name that describes the test. This name is displayed in the teacher dashboard, so it should clearly reflect the challenge. Toggle the Show Name setting to hide the name in the challenge text the student sees.

• Instructions - Enter text that is shown to the student using optional Markdown formatting.

Metadata (Optional)

• Bloom’s Level - Select the appropriate level of Bloom’s Taxonomy for the current assessment.

• Learning Objectives - Specify the educational goals of the assessment. Objectives typically begin with “Students Will Be Able To (SWBAT).” For example: SWBAT follow the flow of recursive execution.

• Tags - The Content and Programming Language tags are provided and required. To add custom tags, click Add Tag and enter the name and values.

Files (Optional)

Check the boxes for any additional external files to include with the assessment when adding it to an assessment library. Selected files appear in the Additional content list.