Exams

About Exams

Exams are powerful tools and can help with assessing learner progress and measuring course effectiveness for an e-learning program.

In CrunchTime! TalentLink, exams are treated as content items and, once created, are added to learning programs just like any other content item.

Exam Features

Questions

• There are seven question types available:

True/false Multiple choice Fill in the blank Multiple choice multi-select

Matching Sequence Visual matching

• Available/in review settings for questions, available is the default

• Optionally, feedback can be presented for both correct and incorrect answers

• Question sequence can be random or fixed

• Questions can be pooled

Scoring, Completions, and Monitoring

• Manager sign-off can be required (at the beginning of the exam, the end, or both)

• Passing score can be set

• Can optionally allow progress if failed, allow a specific number of attempts, and can set a wait period between attempts

• Inactivity time out can be set

• Certificates can be awarded

• Knowledge scores can be set

Other Properties

• Available/in review settings for the exam

• Both English and Spanish exams can be created

• Preview is available

How to Create an Exam

Path: Campus Home > Content > +Content Item > Exam

1. Enter a title on the add new exam popup and click Add

2. Specify exam properties

3. Add questions

4. Click done (upper right)

Exam Properties

1. Accept default exam image or select another

2. Accept review mode as status or change to available, optionally add a certificate, knowledge score, and duration

3. Questions Available and Questions in Exam settings are for exams that use pooled questions

4. Specify whether the question should be presented in the order created here on the exam (fixed sequence) or they should be randomized for each learner

5. Accept 80% as the passing score or change it (the system will do the calculations based on the number of questions you create)

6. Indicate how many attempts the learner should be allowed before failing the exam, the number of days the learner should wait between attempts, and if the learner should be allowed to progress to the next training assignment if this exam is failed

7. Specify an exam duration in minutes (zero is unlimited); specify the number of minutes of inactivity that should elapse before the exam is terminated (zero is unlimited)

8. Determine whether or not to require manager sign-off, sign off can be at the beginning of the exam, the end of the exam, or both

9. Optionally upload a background different from the default for the exam
   

Exam Questions

1. Click +Questions (upper left) to begin adding questions

2. Choose question type

3. Accept available as the question status or change to review

4. Enter question, correct answer(s), and distractors when appropriate

5. Optionally enter feedback for correct and/or incorrect answers

6. Click +Questions (upper left) to add more questions

7. Optionally go back to the exam properties (gear icon in upper left) and click Preview to see the exam as learners will see it

8. Click Done to save your exam

Note: Exams must be added to learning programs to assign them to learners. Path: Campus Home > Content > +Learning Program.

Special Characters

When creating the title, instructions, or questions or when the learner is providing information:

• The following special characters are not allowed:

  • The ampersand (&) is not allowed

  • The number sign (#) is not allowed

• The following special characters are allowed:

!  exclamation point "  double quote $  dollar sign %  percent sign '  apostrophe (  left parenthesis )  right parenthesis *  asterisk +  plus sign ,  comma -  hyphen .  period/decimal point /  forward slash :  colon ;  semicolon

<  less than sign =  equal sign >  greater than sign ?  question mark @  at sign [  left bracket \  backward slash ]  right bracket ^  caret _  underscore `  accent grave {  left curly bracket }  right curly bracket ~  tilde

 

Changing an Exam

Exams are designed so that minor changes automatically propagate out to both new and completed exams. By "minor changes' we mean spelling mistakes and things that do not impact the meaning, context, responses for a question.

If you need to make a major change to a question in an existing exam, something like the ingredients or cooking temperature of a recipe or a safety procedure, we recommend that you delete the question and create a new one with the correct information. Deleting a question from an exam will not impact completed exams.