Curriculum Administrator - Create a New Assessment
Create a new assessment in the district bank as a curriculum administrator.
This article walks Curriculum Admins through creating new custom assessments that they can then share with teachers in their district.
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If you do not see the Assessments option in the Admin Tools, this means you do not have the Curriculum Administrator role assigned to your profile. To add the correct role to your account you will need to have access as an Organization Administrator. Organization Administrators can refer to the Add Roles to an Existing User article for steps on adding the correct roles to user accounts.
Article Contents
Create a New Assessment
1. SSO or sign in at my.mheducation.com.
If you have dual roles as a teacher and an administrator, you will need to navigate to your Administrator profile to access the Admin Tools. Refer to the How to Access Roles, Organizations, and Profile Settings article for steps on switching between your Teacher and Administrator profiles.
2. Click on Assessments on the navigation menu.
3. Select the program from the Course drop-down.
4. From the School District Banks tab, click on a custom created District Bank.
To create new assessments, you will first need to create a new District Bank. You will not be able to add custom assessments to McGraw Hill district banks.
5. Click on Add Assessments.
6. Click Create New from the menu.
7. On the Create New Assessment pop-up, enter an Assessment Name.
8. Click the Create Assessment button.
The page will automatically load to the newly created assessment.
Add Existing Questions
1. Click the Add Question button.
2. Click on Add Existing Question from the menu.
3. Click the Add From button.
4. Click on Questions or Assessments 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.
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.
A. To help locate the questions you want, use the Search By Title field and the Filters.
7. Click the Add button at the top-right.
B. Click the Preview All button to view the selected questions.
C. Click the Options icon to Preview the single question.
When previewing the questions, you will be able to toggle between seeing the Student Digital, Correct Answer, and Student Print views.
Add New Questions
1. Click the Add Question button.
2. Click on Create New Question from the menu.
3. Select the preferred Question Type from the drop-down. Review the MH Assess - Question Types article for details on each option.
4. Enter the Question Text.
5. Depending on the question option selected, enter the Answer choices.
6. Click the X next to the correct Answer choice so that it shows a checkmark.
A. Toggle on Reason to add a reason for each Answer choice.
B. Toggle on to Shuffle the Answer choices.
For certain question types, you will need to enter a Response text limit.
You can also select an Editor option and enter an Example Answer for certain questions types.
7. Enter a Hint, Example, and/or Explanation. Click the Continue button after each entry for it to save. These are optional.
8. Add a Existing or New Passage. This is optional.
9. For certain question types, select the preferred Scoring option from the drop-down. Refer to the MH Assess - Advanced Scoring article for details on each of the scoring options.
10. For some question types, you have the option to add a Rubric.
11. Enter the Points the question should be worth.
12. Click the Save button at the top or bottom of the page.
Edit a Question
1. To make changes to a question on the assessment, click the Edit button.
2. Make any preferred changes to the 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.
3. On the Question Link pop-up, verify the questions you are wanting to link together.
If you want to set Dependent scoring between the linked questions, check the box. You will then need to select full or partial for credit from the drop-down.
4. Click the Create Link button.
If questions have been linked, you will see a link icon next to the Question header.
Change Link Conditions
1. Click the Edit Link button.
2. Click on Edit Conditions from the menu.
3. On the Question Link pop-up, make preferred changes.
4. Click the Save button to confirm any changes made.
Unlink Questions
1. Click the Edit Link button.
2. Click on Unlink from the menu.
You can also click the Unlink button on the Question Link pop-up.
Remove a Question
1. To delete a question from an assessment, click the Remove button.
Keep in mind, if you accidentally removed the question, you will need to go through adding the question back to the assessment.
Create a Section
If you want multiple parts within an assessment to group questions together, you will want to create a new section.
1. Click the Add Section button at the top-right.
2. On the Add Section pop-up, enter an Introduction.
These are instructions students will see before they start the questions for that section.
3. Check the box next to any Student Tools you would like them to have access to for that section.
4. Click the Add button.
The section will be added to the bottom of the assessment.
5. Any questions added will automatically go into the new section.
Click the up/down arrow to the right of the section name to reorder the sections.
Edit a Section
1. Click Edit Section (pencil icon).
2. Make preferred changes to the Introduction and Student Tools.
3. Click the Save button to confirm changes.
Delete a Section
When deleting a section you want to keep in mind that it will also remove all questions associated to that section.
1. Click Delete Section (trash can icon).
2. On the Delete pop-up, click the Yes, Delete button to confirm.
