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Delivery

Below is a summary of the functionality of student delivery in Mneme.

List of Assessments

Mneme has a single list of all the assessments the learner needs to see. See sample screen.

A few minutes later, the same list of assessments may look like the following:

Description of the columns / data available to learners:

1. Type -- assignment, test, survey
2. Assessment title
3. Status
   • Ready to Take
   • In Progress
   • In Progress / Attention Required
   • Attention Required / Now Overdue!
   • Complete
   • Complete / May Try Again
   • Closed: Past Due
4. Open/due date
5. Time limit
   • Column shows time, if timed
   • Column shows a bar with remaining time if assessment has been started
6. Tries
   Column shows attempts allowed versus completed
7. Finished column
   Column shows finished date and time
8. Grade
   Column shows total points earned and (optionally) a link to Review of results.
   • If Review is set to 'immediate,' a link to Review is available upon completion.
   • If Review is not available until a specific time, the date of Review is listed.
   • If no Review is available, no Review link will be shown for learners.

Notes:

• If the assessment has been graded / released, the highest score/review is shown in the Grade column. If the test is ungraded, the Review page, if allowed, shows the latest try.
• If the test allows multiple tries, the highest score is always used for grading.

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Navigation

An action/navigation bar is included at top and bottom of all pages of an assessment (flexible or strict order assessments). 'Finish' is included on every page, along with next, previous and Table of Contents (TOC). If not used, buttons are grayed out (as in linear order where there is no 'previous' and no TOC).

Reason for Answer

Reason for answer has its own icon in the legend of the table of contents. If learners have left the "Reason" box empty in a question, this is highlighted in the TOC. They are reminded to complete it.
 

Finish Behavior

Learners can finish an assessment from anywhere, if they are done or partially done.

There are two behaviors for Finish:

• Finish is available from any question and the TOC. When there are no unanswered questions and no questions are marked to review prior to finishing the assessment, upon clicking on Finish, Mneme submits the assessment / answers after a single 'Finish' confirmation for the learner.
  
  
   
• The other Finish is when a learner has left questions unanswered. Upon clicking on 'Finish', Mneme takes learners to TOC, where they are alerted about what's not completed. Learners can complete what's not answered, review what's marked to review before finishing, and fill in incomplete reason for answer. Learners can click on Finish at any time to complete the assessment. Even if questions are unanswered, upon clicking on Finish, after a single confirm, they can finish an assessment.
  
  
   

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Auto-Submitting Assessments with Hard Due Dates

Mneme treats assessments with hard due dates (i.e. no late submissions allowed) as timed assessments. If learners take an assessment that has a hard due date, they will see a "near due" timer. "Near due" is defined as within 2 hours of the due date, for "no late expected" hard due date assessments.

Students see a timer in the enter screen and in all the question views (question, remove upload, TOC, instructions). The timer is also shown in the list view.

The timer sits in the "due" column in place of the normal date display. It's displayed, running, when the assessment is within 2 hours of due. It only shows with the status is "ready," "in progress", or if the assessment is near due; this means that the timer only shows if the learner has not yet completed the assessment. If the assessment has been completed or if the assessment is actually past due, Mneme shows the normal text display.

The 'near due' timer turns red when the due date arrives.

When the hard due date is reached, the assessment will be auto-completed, saving the learner's answers.

If a learner is in the middle of an assessment with a hard due date, exits to continue later, and returns to the assessment after the due date has passed, she will find the assessment auto-completed (along with the answers).

Whether learners are just sitting on the screen, staring at a question, at the TOC, or exit to continue later, when the hard due date reaches, the assessment will be auto-completed for the learners.

Strict Order Assessments

In Mneme, if an assessment is set to "strict order," it means that learners can answer a question only once. Students are given clear instructors as to what to expect in strict order assessments.

In strict order assessments, learners can see a question, leave and continue later, again, quite again, etc. Learners can move forward. They cannot go to previous or the TOC. They can enter / exit as often as they like till they say they are done. Once done, they cannot come back to the question. If learners click on "Continue later" and return, they are taken to the last unanswered question.

If learners 'see' a question but don't answer it, Mneme alerts them to answer it. But, the software doesn't keep them stuck. Learners can proceed to Next, after the alert, leaving a question empty.

Special instructions are added at the beginning of strict order assessments to alert learners that they can answer a question only once. The instructions are included in a link at the action bar on every page.

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Review Elements

• 'Answer Key' and 'Feedback' are highlighted in bold, and are easily identifiable with icons.
• Grader comments in the student review scores page are highlighted to stand out.
• A note icon is provided for additional emphasis by the grader's comments.
• Model answer is highlighted for learners.
• The total grade and part scores are also flagged with a 'grade' icon.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Enter Screens

Upon clicking on an assessment's title, learners are taken to a "Ready to Begin?" page that includes assessment instructions (if provided by the instructor) and system notices. Learners can begin or cancel. System notices are included for flexible order, strict order, and timed assessments, providing learners with clear information about the setup of the assessment and the behavior that they should expect. 

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Instructions Link

Learners have access to all instructions (instructor instructions, timed, flexible order, strict order, or part instructions) via a link at the action bar of an assessment, accessible from every page or question.

The Instructions View allows learners to review the instructor's and system notices (all provided in one page) at any time, and continue from where they left off, as in the following example:

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Review Options

Instructors may choose to show students feedback, answer keys and their scores immediately upon submission, after they releasing grades, after a specific date, or never.

Further, instructors can choose what to reveal to students in review: a) Show student responses to questions, answer key and item scores, b) show answer key and item scores only for correct answers, or c) show no answer key and no item scores. Students see their responses but not how they did.

Instructors can change the Review (or other) settings at any time, even if a test has started and students are in the process of taking it.

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Grading

The following Grading Options control what students see in Review and in the Gradebook:

Final Confirmations

Upon finishing an assessment, the learner is taken directly to Review (if settings are set to immediate) OR to the list of assessments (if set to no review or show review at a specific date), where learners can see a time stamp for their submission, their score (if graded), if they have more tries, status, etc.

No final confirmation page is shown to learners if a final message is not included by the instructor.

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Security

Mneme supports a secondary password for additional security when giving high-stakes assessments. A secondary password may also be assigned for special access to a test to one or more students.

• If a password has been assigned to an assessment or to a group of students, upon clicking on "Begin," the learner is prompted to enter the password prior to gaining access to the assessment.
• Once the learner is in the assessment, he may re-enter it as many times as he wishes within the open/due dates, including logging out and returning, without having to re-enter the password.

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