Illuminate Ed Tutorial (2) Sharing an assessment, using rubricked responses, customizing bubble sheets, and using pre-built reports.

When you are in an assessment, the program will default you to “Overview”, showing you a quick glance of your data. What you see pictured below is a pre-test. The chart you see indicates my students’ overall performance.

To share your assessment (or to modify it), click “Set-up”, and then “Share”.

That will bring to this screen, where you can share with individuals or anyone within a certain role.

Type into the search box to indicate with whom you wish to share the assessment.

Be sure to include what you want that person to be able to do. Then click, “share”.

There will be a green notice at the top of the screen to indicate you shared successfully. ***Sharing an assessment will not share your data. Users will only be able to see the data of students you may share, and attributes of the assessment like the key.

To modify the key, or create rubricked answers, toggle down “Set- up” again, and click “Questions.”

That brings you to your key, where you can alter the number of points each question is worth, what the correct answer(s) are, and any advanced fields like rubrics. For the advanced options click the blue question mark.

The little blue question mark brings you choices for advanced options. Rubrics are one of them.

Pictured below is an example of one way to do a rubricked response. Here, I’ve checked “Advanced”, and with colons (:), indicated that bubbling “A” equals 1 pt, “B” equals 2 pts, etc. I have a 5 point rubric. **When issuing a test with rubricked responses, the TEACHER is the one who bubbles the answers for those particular questions. I told my students to leave bubbles 36, 37, and 38 blank, so that I could bubble them later, after assessing their responses.

Alternatively, you could check “rubric”, indicate that 5 points are possible, and that the best answer is 5. This accomplishes the same goal. However, it limits you to the number of points you can assign based on the bubbles given on an answer sheet. **This will also automatically alter your bubble sheets to reflect values 1-5, instead of values A-E for just those questions.

To alter the bubble sheet, or give more bubbles, you can click “Sheet Designer”, under “set-up”.

Here you can see my rubric is indicated automatically with 1-5. You can change the number of responses you can use too. **If you change the number of responses, keep in mind that Illum. Ed. will only allow an increased number of bubbles per question on answer sheets that include NO MORE than 50 questions.

You can choose up to 9 bubbles. This is great for matching questions.

To view summaries of your data, click “Reports”, which will take you here. The 3 reports I use most commonly are these.

“Response Frequency” will show you which questions were particularly missed by students, and which answers they bubbled instead. **Here, you can see that the most commonly missed question was #27, where “D” was the correct answer, but most of my students bubbled “E” (which I told them indicated “I don’t know”).

Click “reports” again to get back to your list of reports.

“Student Responses” will show you how individual students averaged. You can sort by class.

I use this screen to enter scores into Powerschool. (I put the screens side by side to enter)

Click “reports” again to get back to your list of reports.

“Student Small Slips” is handy to use when confirming the machine’s accuracy, or when reporting individual scores to students. I sort by class, indicate if I want all questions on a slip (per student), compared the key, and then “Preview”

Pictured below, you’ll see that I wanted only the incorrect answers, compared with the key for my 6 th hour. The machine generated a little slip for me to print, cut, and give to individual students. I usually pass back the original test questions so that students can target the questions they missed. (Though not for pre-tests).