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Teach. Academy Orientation – Chapter 4. This Session…. Student Classes Instructor Classes Online Assessment Tools Exam Activation Instructor Grade Book Historical Grade Book for Instructors Certificates and Letters Student Certification Vouchers Success Story.

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  1. Teach Academy Orientation – Chapter 4

  2. This Session… • Student Classes • Instructor Classes • Online Assessment Tools • Exam Activation • Instructor Grade Book • Historical Grade Book for Instructors • Certificates and Letters • Student Certification Vouchers • Success Story

  3. Roles and Responsibilities • Teacher • Manager of classes • Synthesizer of curriculum • Community outreach collaborator

  4. Creating a Student Class • When creating a course the following information may be entered: • Class • Name • Language • Version • Start Date • End Date • Final Exam • Time Zone • Enrollment • Primary Instructor • Secondary Instructor • Environment • Curriculum

  5. Creating a Student Class • Instructors may create student classes if they have met the following criteria: • Passed the Academy Orientation Course • Passed the Instructor Training for the course they are creating a class in • Main Contacts may also create student classes and designate the following: • Primary instructor that has met the above criteria • Secondary instructor that has met the above criteria

  6. Editing Student Class Information • After a class has been created all fields may be edited if the roster is empty and the class has not started • If the roster is not empty or the class has started the following fields may not be changed: • Version • Start Date • Environment • Class Name • Course • Language

  7. Viewing Class Information • Instructors or Main Contacts may also chose to view class information: • View Class Gradebook • View Class Roster • Add New Students • Enroll Eligible Students • Enroll Incomplete Students

  8. Creating Student Accounts • Instructors may enroll different types of students • New students • Eligible Students • Incomplete Students • In order to enroll a new student, instructors or main contacts must first create a student account.

  9. Enrolling Eligible and Incomplete Students • Instructors may enroll students who: • Have taken other courses in the Academy Program • Have an account and have met the prerequisites for the course • To enroll an incomplete student, instructors must not only select the account from a list of incomplete students they may also select what to do with previous exam information

  10. Deleting Students From a Class • Students may be unenrolled from a class roster as long as they have not taken any assessments in that class • If a student has completed at least one assessment then it is necessary to mark them incomplete

  11. Changing Student’s Passwords • Instructors are unable to view student’s passwords. • However, if a student has forgotten their password and is therefore having difficulty logging into the Academy Connection an instructor may reset the student’s password for them.

  12. Roles and Responsibilities • CATC and Regional Academy instructors train other Academy instructors, and support Academies, on a timely and ongoing basis • orienting instructors to the program • providing continuing education for instructors • helping instructors set up their classrooms • answering technical and curriculum questions • visiting the Academies • observing instruction • offering seminars and workshops • recommending specific online resources

  13. Roles and Responsibilities

  14. Daily Training Guides for Instructor Training • Daily training guides provide a recommended schedule for instructor training sessions • These guides may be modified to meet the training needs of a specific class

  15. Creating an Instructor Course • When creating a course, the following information may be entered: • Final Exam • Time Zone • Maximum • Primary Instructor • Secondary Instructor • Environment • Curriculum • Class • Name • Language • Version • Start Date • End Date

  16. Creating an Instructor Class • Instructors are able to create Instructor classes as long as they have met the following criteria: • Passed the Academy Orientation Course • Passed the Instructor Training for the course they are creating a class in • Affiliated with a CATC or Regional Academy for that course • Main Contacts may also create Instructor classes and designate a primary and secondary Instructor that has met the above criteria

  17. Editing Instructor Class • After a class has been created all fields may be edited if the roster is empty and the class has not started • If the roster is not empty or the class has started the following fields may not be changed: • Version • Start Date • Environment • Class Name • Course • Language

  18. Viewing Instructor Class Information • Instructors or Main Contacts may also choose to view class information • From the class information screen approved users may also choose to: • View Class Gradebook • View Class Roster • Navigate to the edit class information page

  19. Instructor Enrollment • Instructors must self enroll in Instructor training courses • Instructors that have met the course requirements for registration will see a link called Register • Selecting this link will begin the registration process by displaying available classes for this course

  20. Unenrolling From an Instructor Class • Instructors cannot delete Instructor trainees from their class instead the trainee must unenroll themselves from the class

  21. Purpose of On-line Exams • The main goal of the on-line exams is to assist in the learning process by identifying what students have learned during instruction • Instructors often use the results of on-line exams to • Make inferences about the proficiency of individual students • Determine class level strengths and weaknesses • Adjust instructional process

  22. Purpose of On-line Exams

  23. How Should The On-line Exams Be • Recommended guidelines: • Multiple-sources of information are needed • Hands-on performance is needed • Assessments serve multiple purposes. The information from the test needs to be interpreted relative to local conditions.

  24. Different Types of Assessment • Several types of formal assessment opportunities are available through the on-line resources • Quizzes • Practice Exams • Pre-Test Exams • Chapter and Course Final Exams

  25. Open vs. Close Book Assessment • Some educators believe that open-book assessments resemble real life work • Other educators believe that closed book assessments obtain a true estimate of a student's knowledge level • We recommend: • All exams be proctored • All final exams be administered closed book and should be proctored

  26. Multiple Forms • Sometimes it is valuable to have more than one exam on-hand to measure specific curricular content. When this occurs, the multiple exams are called forms of the exam. • All forms will cover the same content areas. • All forms are equivalent in difficulty. • Most items on each version are different from the other forms of the exam. • All forms of the exam will have approximately same number of scored items. • All forms may contain some non-scored field test items.

  27. Multiple Ways to Ask Questions • Multiple-choice single answer question • Multiple-choice multiple answer question • Interactive items (Drag and Drop , Point and Click, Simulation items) • Testlets

  28. Field Test Questions • Field test questions are questions that appear on a test but are not used as part of the student's score. • The questions are used on a trial basis to ensure their appropriateness and quality before they are used in tests to determine a student's grade.

  29. How Many Times Should Students Be Allowed To Take Exams? • Chapter Exams: As many times as necessary to help students achieve mastery with the content material • Final exams: Generally used as an evaluative tool to determine the level of mastery students have achieved on material for a particular course. As such, a single administration of final exams is strongly encouraged

  30. Assessment Contact Information • Help desk should be contacted at webmaster@unicon.net • By phone at 1-(888) 327-1116 • For policies regarding assessment or the content found on any particular exam: netacadassessment@external.cisco.com

  31. Personalized Feedback • On exams that offer Personalized Feedback, students are provided links to the content covered by each item that was answered incorrectly

  32. Proficiency Report • Proficiency Reports provide feedback on a student's proficiency level as measured by their performance on an assessment activity • Cisco is currently using four categories in the Proficiency Reports : Novice, Partially Proficient, Proficient, and Advanced

  33. Course Feedback • The purpose of the course feedback is to obtain direct student feedback regarding their satisfaction toward the course. • Instructors can view detailed summary information about each course feedback question on the Survey Results page in the Gradebook.

  34. Exam Activation • Default Exam/Form Attributes • From the Exam Home, users may perform a number of tasks:  • View Default Exam Attributes • Activate New Exam • View Exam Status • View List of Expired Exams • Deactivate Exam

  35. Exam Activation • Single and Batch Activation • Single activation has more flexibility to set the exam activation features to their preferences • Batch activate exams requires the acceptance of default exam and form attributes

  36. Exam Activation • When the page Set Exam Attributes is open, it is populated with the default values authored by the Academy Assessment team: • Available attempts • Instructor approvals • Form selection

  37. Exam Activation • Available Attempts • Students can retry exams until they reach the specified stop criteria or expend all tries, whichever comes first.

  38. Exam Activation • Instructor Approval • The Instructor can determine if the students must get authorization for a number of situations: • Additional attempts during the same activation period • Additional access to expired sessions

  39. Exam Activation • Form • There are cases when the instructor may want to have forms in different languages available for the students.

  40. Exam Activation • Form Attributes • The instructor may customize the form attributes : • Randomized Items within a form • Personalized Feedback • Item Information • Proficiency Reports • The Sub-Score Reports • Duration of the form • Number of retries • Stop Criteria

  41. Exam Activation • Select Students • The instructors may select the students to which they will assign the form. • When selecting students, a table shows the number of times each student has taken the form and the number of tries still available

  42. Exam Attributes • Exam Status • When an exam is active the instructor can monitor the Exam Status. This information page can be used to: • Identify students who are currently taking the exam. • Determine how many times students have started and submitted each form. • Approve additional attempts for students. • Re-enable the expired exam for students.

  43. Exam Activation • Expired Exams • The page List of Expired Exams displays the following information: • Exam/Form name • Language • Logon period • Duration

  44. Exam Activation • Expired Exams • The page List of Expired Exams displays the following links: • View Default Exam Attributes • View Status • Return to Exam home

  45. Exam Activation • Deactivate Exam • To stop an exam that is currently active or will become active in the future, an instructor would select the link Deactivate on the Exam Home page

  46. Instructor Gradebook • The instructor may complete the following tasks from the Gradebook: • issue the certificates and letters to the students • view the detailed exam results • decide the weight of each exam in the final grade. • Enter custom scores

  47. Instructor Gradebook • Some columns can be edited directly by the instructor • Skills-based Exam • Grade Base • Attendance Column • Result Column

  48. Instructor Gradebook • Exam Details- the following information can be seen for each form • All the questions in the form are listed as numbers • Maximum score for each question • Each student's score for a question • Total score of the form and each student's total score. • Percentage score • The Proficiency Score • Analyze Exam Page

  49. Instructor Gradebook • From Student Homepage • A student will only be able to see his/her own information • Students may also be able to access item information for each item • Students can view sub-scores and summary

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