How to create a common assessment using Limelight

1. How to create a common assessment using Limelight Revised 09.27.11 Saint Joseph School District

2. Why use Limelight to create common assessments? • Multiple choice questions automatically graded • Quick feedback about students • Quick feedback for students • Ability to practice online assessments • Share common assessments automatically with other members of department • For the environmentally conscious: less paper used

3. Step 1: Create a new bank • On the home screen, click on “Banks” 

4. Click “Create a new bank”

5. Which will lead you to this screen..

6. Complete the following: “Title, “A Brief Description” • Decide who will be able to see bank • “Only me” or “My school” • Click “Create bank”

8. Step 2: Create a passage • Click on “Passages”

9. Click “Create a passage”

10. Complete the following.

11. Make sure to select the desired bank under the option “Bank” • The bank needs to already be created before this step

13. Copy and paste desired passage to be used for assessment • Select “Subject”, “Grade range”, “Passage type” • Click “Create Passage”

14. Step 3: Create questions • Click “create a question”

15. To create questions… • Decide the “Question type” • Multiple choice • Constructed response • Multipart constructed response • Select “Answer options” • Create question in “Question text” • Select “correct answer” • Complete Responses • Correct answer is highlighted in green • Complete Question details • Under “Question Bank” select desired bank to be used for assessment • Make sure correct reading passage is shown • Click “Create and align question” to align to CA, Math, or Science standards.

16. Decide “Question type” • Select “Answer options” • Create Question in “Question text” • Select “correct answer”

17. Complete Responses • Correct answer is highlighted in green

18. Complete Question details • Under “Question Bank” select desired bank to be used for assessment • Make sure correct reading passage is shown

19. Select Question taxonomy • Click “Create and align question” to align to CA, Math, or Science Standards

20. Choose: - Standard Document- Grade Level - Subject- Specific Standard

21. Click “Update Alignment”

22. To continue adding additional questions, click “Create a new question and repeat process until desired amount of questions have been added

23. Special note about adding additional questions: • Make sure you select desired reading passage for each question created • Without selecting passage, students will not be able to view the passage during the question

24. Step 4: Create assessment • Once desired amount of questions have been added, click “Tests”

25. Click “Create a new test”

26. Find questions for test • Click “Select by passage” • Select desired passage from your personal created bank, basic, or classroom banks • Click “Show these passages”

27. Click on passage • Click “Add to test” for each question • Click “Preview and save”

28. Test preview options • Preview, change question order, or add additional questions • Break test into multiple testing sessions • Click “Save this test” once done

29. Complete test information • Select “Test category” • Make sure you choose correct bank

30. Click “Save this test” once all parts are completed

31. Step 5: Assign to classes • Click “Create a new assignment”

32. Click on Assignment highlighted in blue • Make sure the correct test is listed under “Assigning” • Choose desired options for review after completion and time allowed • Select classes to complete assignment • Click “Create Assignment Group”

33. Common Assessment Created

34. After the Common Assessment is created you can: • Print the common assessment for students to take using paper/pencil. • Have the students complete the assessment online. • In order to test online, your building secretary has access to your students’ usernames and logins through Powerschool.Please have her print those for your use. The building secretary is the only staff member in your building that has that capability.

35. Quick Feedback with online testing: Item Assessment

36. Additional suggestions • When creating assessment items not using a reading passage, skip Step 2 • When creating test, you can also “Select by bank” or “Select by Indicator” to find assessment items • Passages show reading level

37. If you have any questions, email: shelley.nordquist@sjsd.k12.mo.us