Question Creation in ActivInspire

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1 Question Creation in ActivInspire Teacher-paced Questions This is used for creating questions prior to student arrival. You will be creating one question per flipchart page. Click on the Insert menu at the top of the screen. Click the Questions option on the menu. The Question Manager dialog box will open.

2 Click on the Insert Question button at the top of the dialog box. In the Question Properties section choose your Question Type. Question type can be Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Sort in Order, Likert Scale, Numeric, Text, or Equation. Type your question text and answer choices. Click the checkbox next to Correct answer to indicate the correct answer to the problem.

3 Click the red x button for answer choices that are not needed. Choose option settings as needed. Click the checkbox next to Replace the page content with a new design to apply one of the question templates to the flipchart page. Scroll through the choices until you find the one you want to use. If the template shows answer choices as 1,2,3,4 that is what will appear. Scroll down for templates with A, B, C, D answer choices.

4 Click on your desired template and click the Apply button. If you want to add an additional question on the next page, click the arrow button at the top to move to the next page. Then, repeat the same steps from above to add a new question to a new page. If you do not want to add an additional question on the next page, click the Done button. Save the flipchart with changes.

5 Start/Stop Flipchart Vote for Teacher-paced Questions Click the Start/Stop Flipchart Vote button on the Main Toolbox. Note: The graphic shown below on a template page works the same as the Start/Stop Flipchart Vote button. Students will enter responses on the device and select send. As students enter, their device name (either their name or a number) will change from gray to yellow. Once all students have responded, you can stop the vote by clicking the Stop button. If there are device names that are still gray, you may receive an error message like the one shown. o o Click the Yes button to allow those devices a second chance to respond. This will resend the question to all devices. Click the No button to end the vote without responses from those nonresponding devices.

6 Once all devices have responded, the vote will automatically stop and the Vote Results dialog box will appear. A variety of results and graphs can be viewed using the drop down box at the top of the dialog box. Click the Paste Vote Results button to paste the results into the current page as an image. Click the WordSeed button to have results pasted as text objects onto the page. This works best with text or numeric questions where students will have various responses. It allows you to do something with the answers the students send.

7 Self-paced Questions This is used for self-paced quizzes or worksheets. Students will work at their own pace through the questions. They will only see the answer choices on the devices. You will be creating multiple questions per flipchart page. This is similar to FastGrade assignments in einstruction CPS software. Click on the Insert menu at the top of the screen. Click the Questions option on the menu. The Question Manager dialog box will open. Click on the Insert Question button at the top of the dialog box. In the Question Properties section choose your Question Type. Question type can be Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Sort in Order, Likert Scale, Numeric, Text, or Equation. Type your question text and answer choices.

8 Click the checkbox next to Correct answer to indicate the correct answer to the problem. Click the red x button for answer choices that are not needed. Click on the Insert Question button again at the top of the dialog box to add the second question. Remember to delete answer choices that are not needed. Continue to add questions using the Insert Question button. Test Properties - Uncheck the checkbox next to Allow students to retry incorrect answers. If you leave this checked, the question will be given to the student until they answer it correctly. Test Feedback Properties Adjust settings as needed. Click the Done button.

9 On the flipchart page, add text with the Test, Quiz, or Worksheet title. A description can also be added. Try not to leave the flipchart blank, you may forget that you have questions attached to the page. Save the flipchart with changes. Start/Stop Flipchart Vote for Student-paced Questions Click the Start/Stop Flipchart Vote button on the Main Toolbox. Students will enter responses on the device and select send. o o If question and answer text were entered, they will see the question and answer text on their device. NOTE: Students cannot resend answers once they have been submitted.

10 Self-Paced Assessment Results dialog box will appear on the screen to view results as students answer. o Result information and data can be viewed from this dialog box.