v3 Feature Focus: Custom Assessment Builder

When I present demonstrations for teachers I try to always show how they can use the "Printable Worksheet" feature to create Common Assessment documents by saving the worksheet as a Microsoft Word document and then cut-n-paste the questions the teachers decide to include in the assessment.

Now, Study Island is going one better! Starting in January, 2010, our "Custom Assessment Builder" will be activated to make this goal so much easier (and better!) You will be allowed to access a separate data bank of questions (ones your students have not seen) to create a custom, diagnostic assessment. Good news -- this feature is very easy to use!

To access this new feature, go to "Class Manager", select "Class Page and Assignments", then "Add Assignment". Just click on "Create Diagnostic Assessment" and away you go!

What you'll see will look a lot like what you are currently used to seeing when crating a "Practice and Instruction Assignment". The difference comes when you scroll down to add questions. Just select the grade level and subject, and click "Get Topic List".

You will then get a list of all the available topics and question counts for each. To add questions from a topic, just click the little icon with the "Q" in it.

This will give you a new window in which you can view and add questions. When you are finished selecting questions for that topic, click "Save Selections".

Just click the icons next to other topics to add more questions from those, and activate and save your assignment. That's all there is to it! Enjoy!