Compare assessment tools
This overview is created to help lecturers of the TU Delft in choosing a tool they can use for assessments, ranging from assignments to (on-campus digital, on-campus paper-based, or remote) written exams.
Ans has won the digital assessment tender and will be TUDelfts’ assessment system for all basic assessments the coming years. For more information, please also visit the Intranet page for the Ans implementation.
Summary
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Ans Delft is the recommended tool for exams, both on-campus as well as remote.
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Brightspace Assignments is recommended if you want students to hand in assignments that you grade online. It contains a plagiarism scanner.
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Brightspace Quizzes can only be used for classroom quizzes only, and not for summative (graded) assessments.
Comparison of the main assessment tools
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Main Application | Standard exam tool, suitable for the majority of courses. 1) on-campus digital exams 2) on-campus written exams 3) remote assessments | Handing in documents, e.g. reports (pdf, word), powerpoints, pictures, movies, audio recordings. | Formative quizzes, the options are limited and it is hard to set the correct settings, as it was not developed for summative examinations. |
Entering questions (teacher experience) | 1) Direct test creation (digital or paper-based): Easy. Preview of the exam looks like a traditional exam, which makes it intuitive. 2) Creating an exam after entering questions in a question bank: Intermediate. | Easy | Easy |
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Type short answer
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| Click on answer option Type short answer * This requires the use of regular expressions, which is not straight forward. |
How can manually graded question types be graded? | |||
Parametrization | Not available No built-in functionality, possible with a work-around using student numbers. | Intermediate Only with Arithmetic Questions | |
Versioning (anti-fraud) | Question pools. | No built-in functionality, possible with workaround to publish different versions of exams without students knowing the group they are in. | Question pools. |
Ease of setting up exam settings | Digital Exams will do this for your scheduled exams. | NA | NA |
Data entry by students | Uploading Files/pictures | Uploading files /pictures | Uploading files /pictures |
Grading | Manual and/or Automatically (depends on the question type). Offline grading before scanning is possible. | Manual only. | Manual and/or Automatic (depends on the question type) |
Giving feedback |
| Annotations: Lecturers appreciate the ease of annotations with balloon |
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Regrading of automatically graded answers | Manually | NA. | Manually per student |
Students reviewing graded exam | Easy to publish feedback | Easy to publish feedback. | Intermediate. There are quite some settings. Most of them are developed for formative assessments. |
Possible to keep track of similar mistakes, might enable fraud detection. No plagiarism scan available, yet. | Plagiarism scan available for typed student work. (Ouriginal: similarities between students, and between student and internet sources.) | By hand only, or write your own script. | |
Security | Only employees from Ans Delft and graders have access to student answers, question & answer models. TAs with student accounts who grade exams can only access the questions and student answers that you appointed them to. | Brightspace helpdesk SAs have access. All TAs and teaching staff in your course have access to questions and everybody with grading rights has access to student answers & grades. | |
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Support | Website: Ans support page 2) Other assessments (mostly formative): | Website: Teaching & Learning support page about Assignments / Quizzes | |
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