Lesson 7 - Publishing an Internet Test or Study Guide

Internet Testing

ExamView lets you easily create Internet tests and study guides. Build a test using the question selection methods you already know how to use. Then, simply choose the Publish Internet Test option.

You must save the test/study guide to your hard drive, upload the files to your website or virtual share folder, and then provide access to your students. Refer to the following sections for step-by-step instructions.

To save an Internet test/study guide to your hard drive:

1. Build a test/study guide just as you would create a test to be printed.
   • Select the questions you want to include on the test/study guide.
   • Make any changes, add new questions, or change the formatting as desired.
   • Then, use the Save command to save the test file to disk.
2. Click  or choose the Publish Internet Test option from the File menu.
3. Name the test.
4. Select the option to save the test files to your local hard drive, and then click the Next button.
5. Choose whether you want to publish a test or a study guide. At this time, your best option is to choose a study guide. See below for reasons.
   • If you choose to publish a test, you must specify an email address. When students submit a completed test, the browser sends the results to you via their email (this is a problem if they take the test at school or on a computer without email capabilities). If you prefer, you can allow students to see their results. An Internet test may include any or all of the question types, however, only the objective questions (e.g., Multiple Choice, True/False, Yes/No, Completion, Modified True/False, Matching, and Numeric Response) are automatically graded. You must manually score open-ended questions (e.g., Short Answer, Essay, Case, and Other).
   • If you choose to publish a study guide, you can decide whether or not to display notes (or hints) and a reference for your students. Using the study guide mode, students can check their own work. ExamView scores each objective question and shows which responses were correct and which were wrong.
6. Review the summary information.
7. Click the Save button to save the test/study guide.
   • When you choose to save an Internet test to your hard drive, ExamView creates an HTML file and an accompanying folder with all of the necessary image files. This makes it easier for you to post the files to a web server. If, for example, you save your test as chapter1, the software will create a file called chapter1.htm and a folder called chapter1_files with the required image files. (See the illustration below.)
     
8. Post the test/study guide to your web page server or virtual share to make it available to your students.
9. Once you post a test, you should verify that students can access it. You may also want to try the "Grade & Submit" feature for tests to make sure that the results are emailed to the correct address.
   
   

   Notes: The test generator program automatically replaces any spaces in file names with underscores ( _ ). When you create a test, ExamView encrypts the answer information so that students cannot see the answers in the HTML page source. While this does help to prevent cheating, there is no foolproof method in an unsupervised environment.

   
   
10. Finally, put your test/study guide and your test bank in a folder named lastname_examview. You will need to log into the staff development server as a guest (Click here for instructions) and drop your folder into my staff development folder dropbox. If you are doing this at school, you must be connected via your ethernet cable. The path to the dropbox is "Online Course | tyleres | Public | Dropbox". You will not be able to open the dropbox and will get a message when you drop your folder. This is okay! Once complete, send me an email and I will check it an let you know everything is completed. After you receive my email, log into Ero and complete the course evaluation so that you can get paid!