Create a New McGraw Hill Assessment

Your guide to creating assessments built around your unique instructional needs.

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Article Contents

Create a New Assessment

Add Existing Questions

Create New Questions

Edit Questions

Link Questions

Change Link Conditions

Unlink Questions

Remove Questions

Copy Questions

Create and Manage Sections

Assessment Settings

Move to Folder

Assign Assessment

Create a New Assessment

1. Launch your course.
   
   
2. Click on Assessments from the navigation menu.
   
   
   
   For certain programs such as Networks and Wonders, you will need to click on Assess (A), Assessment (B), or Online Assessment Center (C).
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Click the New Assessment button.
   
   
   
   
4. On the pop-up, enter an Assessment Title.
   
   
5. Click the Create Assessment button.
   
   
   
   The page will automatically load to the newly created assessment.
   
   D. The custom assessment can be found under the My Assessments folder.
   
   

Add Existing Questions

1. Click the Add Question button.
   
   
2. Click Add Existing Question from the menu.
   
   
   
   
3. Click the Add From button.
   
   
4. Click on Questions, Assessments, or Passages based on where you want to pull questions from.
   
   
   
   
5. Click the Select Bank button and select the assessment bank you want the questions from.
   
   
   
   A. If you select Passages, you will only be able to select passages from the My Passages bank. Select the passage from the Select Passage drop-down.
   
   
   
   B. If you select Assessments, you will also need to choose an option from the Select Assessment drop-down.
   
   
   
   
6. Check the box next to the Questions you want to add to the assessment.
   
   C. To help locate the questions you want, use the Search By Title field and the Filters.
   
   
7. Click the Add or Add and Exit button at the top-right.
   
   - Clicking Add adds the questions to the assessment and keeps you on the Add from Existing Questions page.
   
   - Clicking Add and Exit adds the questions to the assessment and then takes you back to the main assessment editor page.
   
   
   
   D. Click on the Question to view it as the students will see it.
   
   E. Click the Preview All button to view all the listed questions.
   
   F. When previewing the questions, you can choose to View the Student Digital version, the Correct Answer, or the Student Print version.
   
   G. Click on the Show Question Details button to view the associated standards, Webb's DOK Level, and the Bloom's Level.
   
   H. Click the Add button to add the question to the assessment.
   
   I. Use the back-and-forth arrows or the Question drop-down to navigate between question previews.
   
   

Add New Questions

1. Click the Add Question button.
   
   
2. Click Create New Question from the menu.
   
   
   
   A. As an alternative, you can create a New Question from under the Question tab on the Assessments page. You will then be able to follow the steps in the Add Existing Question section to add the question to the assessment.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the Question Type from the drop-down. See the Available Question Types for McGraw Hill Assessments article for details on each option.
   
   
   
   
4. Enter the Question text.
   
   B. Click the Show Preview button to view the question as students will see it on the test.
   
   
   
   
5. Depending on the question type selected, enter answer choices, text, bucket items, prompts, etc. that are needed.
   
   For steps on creating Desmos questions, see the Desmos Graphing and Geometry Questions article.
   
   C. *Toggle on Reason to add an explanation for each answer choice.
   
   D. *Toggle on Shuffle to scramble the answer choices for each student.
   
   *These are not available options for every question type.
   
   
   
   
6. Enter text or upload a file for Hint, Example, and/or Explanation. Click the Continue button after each entry for it to save. These are optional.
   
   
   
   
7. Add an Existing or New Passage. This is optional.
   
   
8. For certain question types, select the preferred Scoring option from the drop-down. Refer to the Advanced Scoring Options for McGraw Hill Assessments article for details on each of the scoring options.
   
   
9. For some question types, you have the option to add a Rubric.
   
   
10. Enter the Points the question should be worth.
    
    
11. Click the Save button at the top or bottom of the page.
    
    

Edit Questions

Any edits that are made to a McGraw Hill created question will create a copy and can be found in your My Questions folder on the Questions tab.

1. Click the Edit button on the question tile.
   
   
   
   
2. Make any necessary changes to the provided fields.
   
   
3. Click the Save button at the top or bottom of the page.

Link Questions

1. To link one question to the next, click the Link Question button.
   
   
2. Click Next Question from the menu.
   
   
   
   A. On the pop-up, click the arrow next to each question to expand the section.
   
   B. Check the Depend scoring box if you want to provide full or partial credit for submitted answers for the linked questions.
   
   
3. Click the Create Link button.
   
   
   
   If questions have been linked, you will see a link icon next to the question header. The question will also turn into Part A and Part B.
   
   

Change Link Conditions

1. Click the Edit Link button on the question tile.
   
   
2. Click Edit Conditions from the menu.
   
   
   
   
3. On the pop-up, check or uncheck the Dependent scoring (A) or Unlink (B) the questions.
   
   
4. Click the Save button to confirm any changes made.
   
   

Unlink Questions

1. Click the Edit Link button on the question tile.
   
   
2. Click Unlink from the menu.
   
   
   
   You can also click on Edit Conditions and click the Unlink button on the pop-up.
   
   The linked questions will go back to being separately numbered questions.

Remove Questions

Keep in mind, if you accidentally removed the question, you will need to go through adding the question back to the assessment.

To delete a question from an assessment, click the Remove button on the question tile.

Copy Questions

Click the Copy button on the question tile.

The duplicate of the question will be directly below the original, with (Copy) above the question text.

Create and Manage Sections

You can create sections to break the assessment into different parts.

1. Click the Add Section button at the top-right.
   
   
   
   
2. The Section Name will auto-fill. Make any preferred changes to the title.
   
   
3. Enter an Introduction. These are instructions students will see before they start the questions for that section and are optional.
   
   
   
   
4. Check the box next to any Student Tools you would like them to have access to for that section.
   
   
5. Click the Add button.
   
   
   
   The new section will be added to the bottom of the assessment, and any additional questions added will automatically go into the new section.
   
   A. Click the Edit Section (pencil icon) button to make adjustments to the section name, introduction, and associated student tools.
   
   B. Click the Delete Section (trash can icon) button to delete the section. Note: Deleting a section will also delete all questions attached to that section.
   
   C. Click the Move (arrow icon) button to move the section up or down within the assessment.
   
   

Assessment Settings

1. Click the Settings button at the top right.
   
   
   
   
2. Check the boxes next to any Feedback & Resources and/or Display Options you want set for the assessment.
   
   For information on the different options available, see the Manage Student Settings for a McGraw Hill Assessment article.
   
   
3. Click the Save and Exit button.
   
   

Move to Folder

1. Click the Move to Folder button.
   
   
   
   
2. On the pop-up, select the Folder Name from the drop-down.
   
   
3. Click the Save and Exit button.