Overview of changes

This section introduces the changes to Learner Response Systems.

Question Manager

Create Questions and Question Sets from one window

Question Manager replaces the Question Wizard and the Self-Paced Question Set Wizard from previous versions of ActivInspire.

You can create or select a question and immediately edit its properties. The Question Manager window displays a list of questions and their properties.

You can also:

Add a question

 

Complete the Question Properties for individual questions.

Complete the Test Properties for a Self-Paced Question Set.

Insert the Question or Self-Paced Question Set into the specified flipchart page.

 

 

The new design makes it easier to include assessments, tests and quizzes in your lesson.

For details, see Using Question Manager.

Self-Paced Question Sets - new features

The new Question Manager in ActivInspire 1.5 gives you more flexibility during Self-Paced voting sessions.

You can now do the following:

When you create a Self-Paced Question Set, you can choose to send students a feedback message as follows:

If you set question levels in Question Manager, you can set the number of correct answers required to progress to the next level.

You can send questions to each student in a different order, for any level.

If students answer incorrectly, perhaps by mistake, you can let them retry those questions, and improve their score.

For details, see Self-Paced Question Sets.

Import IMS® QTI XML or ExamView® XML files into Question Manager

This subtopic supersedes the information about IMS® QTI XML and ExamView® XML files in

More about ActivInspire > Export and Importing files > Importing files > Import other types of files  in the ActivInspire 1.4 help.

 

You can now import files from IMS® QTI and ExamView® directly into the new Question Manager.

  1. From the Main Menu, select Insert > Questions. Question Manager opens.

  2. Click the Question Manager 'Document View' tab, then click  Import
    questions from IMS® QTIXML and ExamView®
    . A dialog opens, prompting you to choose one or more questions.

  3. Navigate to the folder that contains the .xml file you want to import and select it.

  4. Click Open. A progress bar is displayed, and closes on completion.

Question Manager imports the contents of the selected file to the question list.

  1. Edit the Question Properties, Test Properties and Feedback Properties. When you are finished, click Done.

Export Self-Paced Question Sets to Microsoft Excel®

On Windows computers, you can now export a Self-Paced Question Set from Question Manager to Microsoft Excel®:

  1. In the Question Manager 'Document View' tab, click Export
    questions to Excel®
    . A dialog opens.

  2. Navigate to the folder to which you want to export the Question Set, enter a filename and click Save.

  3. Microsoft Excel® opens, if you have it installed, and displays the following:

You can process this information further, or close Microsoft Excel®.

 

On Mac or Linux computers, you can export a Self-Paced Question Set from Question Manager to a .xls file. The first two steps are as described above.

On all three operating systems, you can open the file with any application that is supported for your operating system, and that can interpret files in .xls format.

You can still export voting results from the Voting Browser as before. For details see More about ActivInspire > Exporting and Importing files > Exporting files > Export voting results to Microsoft Excel®

 

ActivHubs and virtual ActivHubs

New graphics help you select the correct device type.

In Device Registration, ActivEngage users can now:

  • Easily distinguish their virtual ActivHubs from USB ActivHubs.

    Virtual ActivHubs are blue.
     

  • Select ActivEngage virtual devices.

    Previously you had to select ActivExpression devices if you wanted to register ActivEngage virtual devices.

New voting action

With the introduction of Question Manager, you can now create one or more questions in the same window.

The actions 'Insert Question' and 'Insert Question Set' have been combined into the single action 'Insert Questions'.

Action

Effect

 More info...   

Insert Questions

Launches the Question Manager.

When you complete the Question Properties and click Done, the question is displayed on the current (or new) page.

When you insert more than one question, you create a Self-Paced Question Set.

Whenever you navigate to a question page, the Start/Stop Flipchart Vote button is highlighted green, ready to start a vote.

 

 

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