Ans for formative testing

Your course should be visible in your Ans environment if it was migrated from Mobius. Please check that you are using the correct URL: www.ans.app.
Can’t find your Ans course or want access to one? Please get in touch with Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl .

If you already had a question bank in a previous assessment tool, it should have been migrated to your Ans environment.  
 
Don’t have a question bank?  
Note: You can still create assignments (exams or tests) without a question bank. You are free to create exercises and questions within an assignment without a question bank.  
 
If you don’t already have a question bank copied to your course, or you would like one, please request a question bank for formative testing purposes by contacting Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl .

1. Go to the assignment where you wish to create a new exercise. Select the tab Digital test.  
2. Click on New exercise.  
3. Name the exercise in the pop-up and click save. You may now add content to your exercise.  
4. Click on New description > description to add text for, e.g., instructions, at the start of the exercise.  
5. Click New question and a dialogue box will pop up to choose a question type. Select a question type to continue creating.  

Please visit the Ans website for an overview of the question types. Note: The settings within TU Delft may differ. 

1. Go to your desired course. 
2. Select the assignment you want to add a grading scheme to. 
3. Select Digital test from the bar.  
4. Select Grading scheme from the bar.  
5. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.  
6. Click on the three horizontal bullets ••• icon and click on Edit. 
7. Select the Grading type from the dropdown menu. This may differ depending on the question type.
8. Click on the three vertical bullets for more grading options.  
9. Click on Save when you are done. 

After you have added a grading scheme to your test, you can adjust the settings of this test. There are several aspects you can adjust.  
 
Go to Attachments to add an attachment and make it visible to the participants (students).  
 
For access, utilities, and navigation settings, go to Accessibility.

If your students need to do multiple assignments in Ans, you can create links to these assignments from the course's Brightspace environment. This way, students can easily access these Ans assignments in the order of your Brightspace content. 

After you have created an assignment in Ans, you can add the assignment to your course in Brightspace using the steps below:
1)    Go to Course > Content and go to the Module where you want to add the assignment.
2)    Click Existing Activities and select Ans. A pop-up will open.
 

3)    Select which Course you would like to link

4)    Select which assignment you would like to link

5)    If you do not want students to see the assignment yet, make sure to select hide the assignment from users.

To unlink an Ans assignment, it must be removed from both Brightspace and Ans. Follow the steps below to unlink your Ans assignment:

1)    On Brightspace, click the downwards arrow on the selected topic and click remove topic.

2)    Then, go to the Ans environment and Click on Courses at the top.
3)    Choose your course or search for it.
4)    Select your assignment or use the search bar.
5)    Click on the Settings tab.
 

6)    Go to Integrations in the left menu.

7)    Click on the Brightspace LTI-link. From there, you can uninstall it.

1)    In Ans, select your course or use the search bar.
2)    Select your assignment or use the search bar.
3)    Click Results at the top.
 

4)    Click Send marks to LMS.

If your colleague has access to your Brightspace course, they can get access to your Ans course by clicking on the Ans link in your Brightspace environment. This will automatically give them instructor role access in the Ans course you have linked to your Brightspace course.

In case your exam is part of a joint program with other universities, Ans offers the option for instructors to give external parties (e.g., an external instructor) access to a course relevant to them. When you have access to your course, you can add teaching staff with a TU Delft employee account. The external teaching staff must have a TU Delft account to be able to access TU Delft Ans environment. To receive a TU Delft account, please contact your HR department.

Follow the steps below to add someone to the course as an instructor:

1. Go to the Members tab and click on Staff on the top-left.

2. Click on Add staff and choose Add instructors. Search for the person you wish to add, and click on Add.

3. If you cannot find the person, request this person to log in to Ans via: https://ans.app/users/sign_in. After the person logs in, this person will appear on the Staff list, and you can add their to the course.

When you a course in Ans, students who will partake in the test can be added to it in two different ways, either via Brightspace or via DigitalExams, depending on the course.

For formative testing, you can do this via Brightspace. 

To create a link in your course to Ans, please follow the steps that are described in ‘How to link my Ans assignment to Brightspace?’. Any student that clicks this link will be automatically granted access to the Ans course.

If you would like to practice, you can do so in the Ans- Edu environment.

This environment is meant for training, practising, and experimenting with the Ans tool. 

To get access to this environment, please contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl

This is for TAs that assist exclusively with the grading of assignments. TAs that need access as a reviewer don’t need an employee account. The course instructor (in Ans) can assign a TA’s student account with a reviewer role. 

How to assign a TA as a reviewer:

1. Go to your desired course in Ans and select the Members tab and click on Staff on the top left. Click on Add staff.
2. When the pop-up menu opens, select the role reviewer and turn on the filter for Student.
3. After doing this, type in the name of the student you wish to invite as a reviewer and check their name. 

How to assign a reviewer to a task:

1. Go back to the original member’s option in your course and see that the student has now been added as a reviewer inside the course. Please note that this does not mean the process of adding reviewers is complete; the student also needs to be assigned what they will review.

2. After verifying that the student has correctly been added as a reviewer, go to the assignments option inside your course and select the subsequent assignment.

3. Once you are inside the desired assignment go to the option review and select assign.

4. Next to the assign button you should be able to see the list of names from which you will be able to choose. This should also include the name of the student previously added as reviewer.

5. After clicking the assign button you will be taken to the next page where you can select the student in question and click on assign exercises.

6. Select the question(s) from the pop-up menu that you would like the student to review and click on save. The student will now receive the invitation to review the specific question(s) in your course.
   
   Student reviewers can only see the content that they have been invited to review.
    

TAs that assist with the creation of questions and assignments can be assigned the Instructor role, granted that they have an employee account (incl NetID). 

A guest account or regular NetID for this can be requested through the HR Assistant for your department, please see: https://intranet.tudelft.nl/en/-/netid-account-or-guest-account and https://intranet.tudelft.nl/en/-/guests for more information. 

If the TA has a TU Delft NetID, please contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl with your request to assign your TA an instructor role in Ans for formative testing.