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Use Assessment Templates to enhance your curriculum and improve your students understanding
Assessment Templates allow you to integrate assessment questions with content to create a seamless flow between instruction and assessment questions that can build on each other.
To use Assessment Templates:
- Create the assessment questions that you want to use, in the order that you want them to appear in the template. For now, don't worry about the content you want integrated.
- Build an HTML file with the content you want to include around your questions. Add the following tag wherever you want a question to appear:
<a:question />. This tag creates a question placeholder, telling Buzz to automatically insert a questions from the assessment you created in Step 1.- Review the HTML file example and the Frequently asked questions section below for more detail.
- In the assessment activity editor, open Settings, and find the Advanced assessment options card. Click the Upload resource button to upload the HTML file from your computer.
- If you have already uploaded the file to Resources, click the field to find it.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the Assessment Template order the questions? Buzz automatically inserts the questions according to the order you set up in the Assessment you create. If the order of the questions matter for your template, be sure the Randomize question order assessment setting is disabled for the assessment.
- What if there are more placeholders in the HTML file than questions in Buzz? Extra placeholders are set to empty. When possible, you should keep a one-to-one placeholder/question ratio.
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What if there are more questions in Buzz than placeholders in the HTML file? Extra questions will be automatically placed after the last
<a:question />tag. - How does this feature look in the gradebook? There are no changes in the gradebook, this feature affects only the active and review components of the player.
- Can I include JavaScript in my template? Buzz does not support referring to an external JavaScript file (.js). While you can include script tags in the HTML, you are solely responsible for verifying that it works properly and you run it at your own risk. If your script conflicts with the Buzz application, you will be responsible for fixing the issues.
- Can I include CSS in my template? Buzz does not support referring to an external style file (.css). While you can include style tags in the HTML, you are solely responsible for verifying that it works properly and you run it at your own risk. If your style conflicts with the Buzz application, you will be responsible for fixing the issues.
- Can I use BusyBee with Assessment Templates? If enabled, the follow BusyBee tools are supported for Assessment Templates:
HTML file example
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title Here</TITLE>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 0px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
background-color: #f1f1c1;
}
th, td {
padding: 5px;
text-align: left;
}
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF">
<CENTER><IMG SRC="https://image.example.com/Assets/clouds.jpg" ALIGN="BOTTOM"> </CENTER>
<HR>
<a href="http://example.com">Link Name</a>
is a link to another nifty site
<H1>This is an Assessment Template!</H1>
<p>Here is some instruction</p>
<p>
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<th style="width: 50px;"></th>
<th><a:question /></th>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
<H2>This is a Medium Header</H2>
Send me mail at <a href="mailto:support@example.com">
support@example.com</a>.
<P> This is a new paragraph!
<p>
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<th style="width: 50px;"></th>
<th><a:question /></th>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
<P> <B>This is a new paragraph!</B>
<BR> <B><I>This is a new sentence without a paragraph break, in bold italics.</I></B>
<HR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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