Tell Me More About the Assessment Builder in Coach Digital

Tell Me More About the Assessment Builder in Coach Digital

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This article provides teachers and administrators with a step-by-step guide for using the Assessment Builder feature. Pulling from comprehensive math and ELA question banks, the Assessment Builder enables teachers to customize assessments for measuring student growth. It also provides the flexibility to create practice activities to reinforce concept mastery. Content within the Assessment Builder targets grades 3-8.

Access this feature from the navigation bar and select Question Bank.

Coach Digital Compass Teacher Dashboard displaying student alerts, assignments to grade, and active assignments. The Assessment Builder menu is expanded, showing options for Question Bank and Custom Assessments. Sections for viewing cumulative standards reports and the assignment calendar are also visible.

Next, set the criteria best suited for the assessment. The "Product" drop-down menu lists available resources based on the school's site license. More than one "Question Type" can be selected, such as multi-select and fill-in-the-blank. The "Standard" drop-down menu allows you to only pull questions specific to the skills being assessed.

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page displaying filters for product, subject, grade, question type, and standards. A search bar is available for searching by question or passage text. The Question Bank section lists multiple-choice questions with preview options. The Assessment Preview section includes fields for assignment name and directions, with a drag-and-drop area for adding questions. Save and preview buttons are visible.

The question bank can also be searched by keyword when setting the criteria.

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page with filters for product, subject, grade, question type, and standards. The search bar contains the keyword fish, displaying two matching multiple-choice questions in the Question Bank section. The Assessment Preview section includes fields for assignment name and directions, with a drag-and-drop area for adding questions. Save and preview buttons are visible.

Next, the filtered search returns a question bank from which the assessment can be built. In the following example, 2 questions are presented for selected ELA standards.

 

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page with filters for product, subject, grade, question type, and standards. The search bar contains the keyword fish, displaying two matching multiple-choice questions in the Question Bank section. The Assessment Preview section includes fields for assignment name and directions, with a drag-and-drop area for adding questions. Save and preview buttons are visible.

"Preview" allows you to access the reading passage(s) (or math problems and answer options) associated with those questions.

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page with filters for product, subject, grade, question type, and standards. The search bar contains the keyword fish, displaying two multiple-choice questions. The Assessment Preview section, highlighted in red, includes an assignment name, a question added from the question bank, and options to clear, save, or preview the assessment.

The "2" indicates there are seven questions connected to that passage. It is also hyperlinked, which enables you to preview the questions and to choose which ones are included in the assessment.

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page with filters for product, subject, grade, question type, and standards. The search bar contains the keyword fish, displaying two matching multiple-choice questions in the Question Bank section. The Assessment Preview section includes fields for assignment name and directions, with a drag-and-drop area for adding questions. Save and preview buttons are visible.

Click anywhere on an individual question and drag it onto the assessment form. 

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page displaying multiple-choice questions related to sentence corrections and research resources. The Assessment Preview section contains a test with an added multiple-choice question. Options to clear, save, and preview the assessment are visible. A delete icon is present for removing the selected question.

Or, select the link icon to move all the questions to the assessment form.

Coach Digital Compass Question Bank page displaying multiple-choice and essay questions. A question related to research resources has a linked questions icon highlighted. The Assessment Preview section contains a test with two added multiple-choice questions. A red banner at the bottom indicates that dragging will add all linked questions to the test. Save and preview buttons are visible.

Once completed, be sure to name the assessment and include any instructions to students. Then, select SAVE.

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