**EXAM Portal**
### Key Features for a Model Exam Portal
1. **Diverse Question Types**:
– **Multiple Choice**: Allows images to be integrated within the question text or as part of the answer choices. This helps in creating questions that are visually oriented, such as identifying parts of a diagram.
– **True/False**: Images can be included in the question text to validate understanding through visual information.
– **Short Answer**: Supports image-based prompts where students provide brief textual responses, aiding in testing specific knowledge or identification.
– **Essay**: Enables students to write detailed answers based on visual prompts, fostering critical thinking and detailed analysis of images.
– **Matching**: Facilitates matching terms to images or images to images, useful for vocabulary building, historical events, and more.
– **Drag and Drop onto Image**: Allows interactive questions where students drag labels or markers onto specific areas of an image, excellent for anatomy, maps, or schematics.
– **Calculated and Numerical**: These questions can also incorporate images, particularly useful for subjects like math and physics where diagrams are integral.
2. **Image Integration**:
– **Question Text**: Incorporate images directly into the question text to provide context or additional information.
– **Answer Choices**: Use images as part of the multiple-choice options or matching questions.
– **Interactive Images**: Utilize images that students can interact with, such as dragging labels or identifying areas on a picture.
– **Rich Media Support**: Embed images, diagrams, graphs, and other visual aids to enhance comprehension and engagement.
3. **Responsive Design**:
– Ensure the portal and images are responsive, adapting to different screen sizes and devices to maintain clarity and usability.
– Images should scale appropriately and remain legible on various devices, from desktops to mobile phones.
4. **Accessibility**:
– Provide alternative text for all images to ensure accessibility for students using screen readers.
– Ensure that images and interactions are accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
5. **Image Repositories**:
– Integration with image repositories or libraries where instructors can store and retrieve images easily.
– Allows for easy reuse and organization of visual materials.
6. **Security and Integrity**:
– Ensure that the exam portal has robust security measures to prevent cheating and unauthorized access.
– Images used in exams should be watermarked or otherwise protected to prevent misuse.
### Setting Up an Exam Portal with Images in Omdel
1. **Creating a New Quiz**:
– Navigate to your course and select “Add an activity or resource.”
– Choose “Quiz” and set up the basic settings like name, description, timing, and grade.
2. **Adding Questions**:
– Within the quiz, select “Add a question” and choose the desired question type.
– For each question, you can insert images using the text editor. The editor allows you to upload images from your computer, link to external images, or select from previously uploaded images in Omdel.
3. **Inserting Images**:
– Use the “Insert/edit image” button in the text editor to add images.
– Provide alternative text for accessibility.
– Adjust the display settings for the image, such as alignment, size, and padding.
4. **Question Bank**:
– Utilize the question bank to manage and organize questions with images.
– Questions can be categorized and reused across different quizzes and courses.
5. **Preview and Test**:
– Always preview the quiz to ensure images are displayed correctly and the questions function as intended.
– Test the quiz on multiple devices to ensure a consistent experience.
6. **Monitoring and Analysis**:
– Use Omdel’s built-in analytics to monitor student performance and engagement with image-based questions.
– Analyze results to improve the quality of future assessments.
### Additional Features
1. **Wide Range of Question Types**:
– Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Answer, Essay, Matching, Numerical, Calculated: Variety of question types to cater to different assessment needs.
– Cloze (Embedded Answers): Questions that contain multiple sub-questions (e.g., fill-in-the-blank within a passage).
2. **Question Bank Management**:
– Reusable Questions: Organize questions into categories for easy reuse across different quizzes and courses.
– Import/Export: Support for various formats (e.g., GIFT, XML) to import and export questions.
3. **Automated Grading**:
– Immediate Feedback: Provide students with instant feedback on their performance.
– Auto-Grading for Objective Questions: Automatically grade multiple choice, true/false, and other objective question types.
– Manual Grading: For subjective question types such as essays.
4. **Quiz Security and Integrity**:
– Time Limits: Set specific time limits for each quiz or exam.
– Question Shuffling: Shuffle questions and answer choices to minimize cheating.
– Quiz Attempts: Limit the number of attempts students can make.
– Browser Security: Use a secure browser setting to prevent students from navigating away from the quiz.
5. **Adaptive and Conditional Activities**:
– Adaptive Mode: Allow students to attempt questions multiple times with penalties for incorrect attempts.
– Conditional Access: Restrict access to the quiz based on completion of other activities or achieving a certain grade.
6. **Feedback and Reporting**:
– Detailed Feedback: Provide detailed feedback for each question or overall quiz performance.
– Analytics and Reports: Access detailed reports on student performance, question statistics, and quiz outcomes.
7. **Integration and Extensions**:
– Plugins: Extend functionality with various plugins (e.g., proctoring tools, plagiarism detection).
– LTI Integration: Integrate with other educational tools and platforms via Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).
8. **Accessibility Features**:
– Screen Reader Compatibility: Ensure that quizzes are accessible to students with disabilities.
– Alternative Text: Provide descriptions for images and multimedia elements.
9. **Scalability and Customization**:
– Large Scale Exams: Support for large numbers of concurrent users, making it suitable for large classes or institutions.
– Customizable Themes and Layouts: Tailor the look and feel of the quiz interface to match your institution’s branding.
10. **Time Management and Pacing**:
– Scheduled Availability: Set specific open and close times for quizzes.
– Time Extensions: Allow extra time for students with special requirements.
11. **Collaboration and Group Activities**:
– Group Quizzes: Assign quizzes to groups and manage group-specific settings.
– Peer Review: Enable students to review and grade each other’s work.
12. **Mobile Compatibility**:
– Omdel Mobile App: Students can take quizzes and exams on their mobile devices, with a responsive design that adjusts to different screen sizes.
