Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Maintaining Your Course

Workarounds/Suggestions for Assessments

(10/10/06)

  • If using All-At-Once for questions, use smaller pools. (1-50 questions)
  • If using All-At-Once try to make the test shorter so not to exceed 1 hour. Going longer can cause the session to timeout since they do not have to hit the save button.
  • If using All-At-Once push for students to hit the save button regularly.  This keeps connection with the session so it does not timeout.
  • Try to use One-At-A-Time. This forces to use save button and keeps session live.
  • Try not to use Force Completion as it will not allow a student to resume their test if they get booted off the system. The instructor will have to reset the test and they lose all work done previously.
  • Try to use One-At-A-Time with Prohibit Backtracking and don’t use force completion.  This will force the student to continuously hit save which enforces the sessions to continue, also if they happen to get booted off or lose internet connection, they can resume from where they left off and with the Prohibit Backtracking they can not go back and change their answers.
  • If you want to Export a test that uses a pool and Import it into another course, you will need to export the pool also.
  • Tell your students to shut down all other programs when getting ready to take a test. This leaves all open resources on the system to handle the test.
  • Tell your students to not click outside of the testing window, as this can cause some browsers to lock up.
  • Tell your students to not click the Back button in the browser.
  • Tell your students to NOT try to print the test as this can also lock the test up.
  • If the assessments aren’t completely loading and they are using Internet Explorer it could be the Security Update for Windows XP KB912812 that is causing the problem. They can check to see if this is installed through Add/Remove Programs and select the checkbox to show Updates. If they find this to be the case, they can either remove the security update or try a browser other than IE, such as Firefox or Netscape.