This article will cover the following information on the quizzing tools available in district-created modules:
- The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
- Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
- Pre-Assessment Results
- Literacy Check Results
- Creating Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
- Special Cases when Creating/Updating Quizzes
Note: Any district user may be assigned a district-created module that contains a Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check to complete, but only district-level PL Managers and invited Collaborators have access to the PL Builder, in which the district-created modules are built. For more information, see the more detailed articles on PL Permissions and Inviting Collaborators.
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The Difference between Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
Image above: Module on My District PL page with Pre-Assessment as first tile & Literacy Check as last tile
In the PL Builder, districts can create and assign their own custom PL modules. These modules include pages, represented as tiles, for users to access Content and complete Reflections, Discussions, and Quizzes. The two types of quizzes are explained below:
- Pre-Assessments: A Pre-Assessment is meant to check for prior knowledge at the beginning of a module. It is meant to help users identify the information they already know or don't know about the content of the module. Users have one attempt to submit it. If the user scores 80% or above, they have demonstrated that they are already familiar with the content, and they automatically receive a Micro-Certification for the Literacy level of module. The other Literacy tiles are marked as Attained and are optional to complete. If they score below 80%, they can proceed with the rest of the module to receive their Micro-Certification.
- Literacy Checks: A Literacy Check can appear throughout the module and is meant to check for understanding. Users have multiple attempts to submit it. The user must score 80% or above in order for the page to be marked as Complete. A history of the user's scores on each attempt to pass the quiz is visible below the status.
The top of these quiz pages appears the same as the top of Content, Reflection, and Discussion pages, with a Description, an optional set of Resources on the right, and a Status in the upper-left corner. Unlike the Reflection and Discussion pages, however, the user cannot manually change the Status of the page. Instead, the Status is automatically set based on their quiz score.
Below the Description of the page and above the quiz questions, the quiz is identified as either a Pre-Assessment or a Literacy Check.
For more details on these two types of assessments, view the video above and/or explore the rest of this article.
Completing Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
Image above: Unsubmitted Literacy Check with answers selected
To complete the Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check, select at least one correct answer for each question by checking the boxes to the right of the answer options, and click Submit at the bottom of the page. Note, if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select both correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost.
After clicking Submit, you'll see a message at the bottom of the page the briefly explains your results, and you can review your answers, shown in the images that follow in this article. The answer options you submitted are indicated by a grey arrow, questions scored as Correct are marked with a green check, and questions scored as Incorrect are marked with an orange X, as shown above. Your score will appear in the upper-left corner, and depending on the quiz type, you may be able to Retake the quiz. Read on for more details on quiz Statuses and Retakes.
Note, if someone updates the quiz in the PL Builder after you have submitted it, the grey arrows and feedback on which answers are correct or incorrect will be removed. This removal is due to the possibility that the new version of the quiz may include updated questions with different correct answers. In this case, you can view the updated quiz questions, but your score is still based on the version of the quiz you last submitted. If you have the option to Retake, your next attempt will be on the new version of the quiz. The original version of the quiz will no longer be accessible. If in the rare case that you are in the process of completing the quiz when the updates are published, you will receive an error when you attempt to submit the quiz, directing you to refresh the page and complete the new version.
Pre-Assessment Results
Image above: Attained Pre-Assessment
If you score below 80% on the Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked as Attained. You do not have the option to Retake. You can review your results and move on to the next tile of the module.
Image above: Complete/Passed Pre-Assessment
If you score 80% or above on the Pre-Assessment, your status on the page will be marked as Complete. You do not have the option to Retake. Your micro-certification will be automatically marked as Complete, and your next required step for the module is to move on to the Fluency level, if there is one available.
Image above: Tiles marked as Attained after passing the Pre-Assessment, Micro-Certification Complete
As shown in Image 1C above, all other tiles for the module (excluding any available Fluency tiles) are marked with the Attained status if the Pre-Assessment is passed, indicating that they are not required to be completed. However, you do still have the option of completing any Reflection or Discussion tiles; you can submit comments and attachments on these pages as usual, and you can manually mark them with the Status of Not Started of In Progress as you're working (which will mark the Micro-Certification as In Progress instead of Complete), or mark them as Complete when you are done (which will keep the Micro-Certification as Complete).
If the module contains a Literacy Check, you do still have the option of submitting it. Note, however, that if you score below 80%, both the tile and the module will be marked with the Status of In Progress. If the module contained an additional Pre-Assessment, you can still view it, but you cannot Submit it.
Literacy Check Results
Image above: Literacy Check scored below 80%, marked In Progress
If you score below 80% the Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as In Progress. Your attempt is recorded and visible by clicking the Status. You can review your results and try again. When you click Retake, your previously-submitted answers are cleared, and you can answer the questions again. Just like the first time, if a question has more than one correct answer option, you must select both correct answers for the question to be marked as correct. If you leave the page before clicking Submit, your answers will be lost. If you score below 80% on a Retake, your attempt is again recorded, and you can try again.
Image above: Literacy Check marked Complete, with history of Attempts below Status
If you score 80% or above on the Literacy Check, your status on the page will be marked as Complete, and your option to Retake will be removed.
Creating Pre-Assessments & Literacy Checks
Image above: Add Tile popup with the "Quiz" Tile Type selected
In the PL Builder, you can create a Pre-Assessment or Literacy Check by adding a Quiz Tile as shown above. You can then enter the page just like Reflection and Discussion Tiles, and there you can edit the Title and add a Description, Resources, and a custom Tile Image as explained in the article on Creating Page/Tile Content. One key difference between the Quiz Tiles and the Reflection and Discussion Tiles, however, is that Quiz Tiles have no Requires Review setting. Instead, they have a Quiz Type setting, shown below.
Image above: Quiz Type selector
Selecting the Quiz Type is a critical step in the creation of a quiz, and it cannot be changed after the quiz has been published. An explanation of the quiz type is available to users at the top of their quizzes, so they know which type of quiz they are completing. The quiz types are explained as follows:
- Pre-Assessment: A Pre-Assessment is meant to check for prior knowledge. Users have one attempt to submit it. If the user scores 80% or above, they automatically receive a Micro-Certification for this module. If they score below 80%, they can proceed with the rest of the module to receive their Micro-Certification.
- Literacy Check: A Literacy Check is meant to check for understanding. Users have multiple attempts to submit it. The user must score 80% or above in order for the page to be marked as Complete. A history of the user's scores on each attempt to pass the quiz will be visible below the status.
For more details on the difference between these two quiz types, see the other sections of this support article. By default, all Quiz Tiles are set as Literacy Checks. Note, Pre-Assessments are not available in the Fluency level of the module, because Fluency is meant to emphasize the application of a new skill, which cannot be "tested out" of.
Below the Description, you can create your quiz questions. Enter your question prompt and at least two answer options. To add additional answer options, click the "Add Option" button. To add additional questions, click the "Add Question" button. Indicate at least one correct answer per question by checking the green box to the left of the answer option. Note, if multiple correct answer options are selected for a single question, the user must select all correct answers to receive credit. If they select only one of the correct answers, the question will be scored as incorrect.
Be sure to click "Save" before exiting the page. If you exit the page without saving, you will be asked to confirm. If you confirm, your unsaved changes will be lost. And remember, users will not see the quiz, or any updates to the quiz, until the next time the module is published.
Special Cases when Creating/Updating Quizzes
Note, there are a few special cases to be aware of when creating quizzes:
- If you add multiple Pre-Assessments to the module, the user only has to pass one of them to receive their Micro-Certification and mark all other tiles as Attained. If they pass one of the Pre-Assessments, marking the other one as Attained, they will not have the option to submit the Attained one.
- If you add a new quiz to a module after a user has completed their micro-certification, their micro-certification will remain Complete and the quiz will be automatically marked as Attained. If it is a Pre-Assessment, they will not have the option to submit it. If it is a Literacy Check, submitting the quiz will be optional.
- If you publish updates to a quiz after users have submitted it, the users' the grey arrows (indicating which answers they submitted) and feedback on which questions were correct or incorrect will be removed. This removal is due to the possibility that the new version of the quiz may include updated questions with different correct answers. In this case, the users can view the updated quiz questions, but their score will still be based on the version of the quiz they last submitted. If they have the option to Retake, their next attempt will be on the new version of the quiz. The original version of the quiz will no longer be accessible. If in the rare case that they are in the process of completing the quiz when the updates are published, they will receive an error when they attempt to submit the quiz, directing them to refresh the page and complete the new version.
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