Education for a Digital World Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe, 2008a

14 – Assessment and Evaluation
Once the URL is pasted, click GO.
This then takes you to the Submissions
page, listing all the students
in the course. Click the yellow
which turns to a green . This
identifies the data that you want to
import from WebCT into Excel.
Click Import, importing the data
from the Submissions page into
your Excel spreadsheet.
This screen capture displays an
Excel spreadsheet, in which I wrote
macros and formulas to analyze
the data pulled from the Submissions
page. Excel has tools that
allow you to continuously update
the data being generated from
WebCT. With WebQuery you are
basically creating a real-time Excel
window into the Submissions page
of your WebCT Quiz. Excel WebQuerys
can be used to mine data
for a variety of different purposes
in WebCT; they are exceptionally
useful.
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