MasteryConnect: Creating your own items within an assessment
Mary "Katie" Moffett
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39 steps
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3 minutes
Masteryconnect
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Navigate to your MasteryConnect login.
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Click "Assessments"
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Click "Add Assessment"
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Title assessment as normal
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Select your Alignment Source
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Click "Next"
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Click "Add Item"
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Click "Author New Item"
Creating a Multiple Choice Item
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Name the item. This can be the actual question or the standard being assessed.
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Click the "Question Type *" field.
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For this tutorial, we are going to click "Multiple Choice Question"
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Click the "Destination Bank \*" field to determine where you want your item to live.
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Select the standard this item assesses
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Click "Author"
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Compose your question in the large text box.
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Type the answer options below.
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Select the correct answer.
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If you have put a passage into MasteryConnect, you can click "Passage" to find it and associate it with your item.
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Select the passage.
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Click "Add"
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If it is a math assessment and the item allows students to utilize a calculator or tool, click through those items to activate them.
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Desmos Calculators are also available.
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As well as different types of rulers.
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And different size Protractors
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Click "Save Draft" to finish creating your item.
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Click "Add Item" to add another item.
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Click "Author New Item"
Creating a Matching Item
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Repeat the steps as before
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Click "Match List"
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After selecting the standard being assessed, click "Author"
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Type your question or instructions in the large text box.
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Type "Put student instructions here."
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Type your answer options to match below.
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Click and drag the correct choices to match with their corresponding answer choice.
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To award partial credit, click More Options
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Click this dropdown and select Partial Match Per Response. This will make the question's point value equal however many correct answers there are. For this particular item, there are 3 answers; therefore 3 points will be awarded. If the student gets 2/3 correct, then they will be awarded 2 points.
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Click "Save Draft"
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Notice this question is now worth "3 points" because of the Partial Match scoring I selected.
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Click "Create Assessment"
