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

14 – Assessment and Evaluation
Besides linking to images, you can
also link to other types of web
documents, everything from standard
HTML pages, to audio files,
video files, PowerPoint files, etc.
These links can be to files within
your course or to files external to
your course. For example, I frequently
provide a link to the Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary
for many of my quizzes.
A simple JavaScript to generate
a pop-up window is shown here.
[The code in red is not part of the
JavaScript required to create the
pop-up window link.]
< !-- hide from old browsers
function new_window(url) {
link =
window.open(url,"Link","toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,resi
zable=yes,width=550,height=300,left=60,top=100");
link.focus()
}
// end script hiding -->
< /SCRIPT>
< HR WIDTH=50% ALIGN=center SIZE=5 NOSHADE>
< H3 ALIGN=center>Reference Links
< P ALIGN=center>
< a href="javascript:new_window('http://www.m-w.com/home.htm')">Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary
< P>
< P ALIGN=justify>Say whether the item on the left is SUFFICIENT, or NECESSARY, or BOTH (necessary
and sufficient), or NEITHER (necessary nor sufficient) for the item on the right.
This script can be placed in the
question field of a question template
(only a portion of the
JavaScript is shown in the following
field).
LINKS FROM THE WEBCT QUIZ MODULE
The quiz module is created/edited through the Quizzes/Surveys
link. Go to the Quizzes/Surveys page and
select the quiz. When you click on the quiz name you
are automatically put into the quiz editor. The quiz editor
assembles and connects the various parts of a quiz
(which I am referring to as the quiz module). Most importantly,
through the quiz editor you link the questions
from the question database to a quiz. Here you can add
questions, delete questions, modify the settings for a
quiz, and preview the quiz, to name but a few of its
functions. This is where you can program WebCT to
randomly generate a set of questions from a database of
questions.
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