Ans for Summative 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 contact DigitalExams@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?

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 summative testing purposes by contacting DigitalExams@TuDelft.nl.

1. Go to the assignment in which 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.

1. Click on New description > description to add text for, e.g., instructions, at the start of the exercise.
2. Click on New question and a dialogue box will pop up to choose a question type. Select a question type to continue creating.
3. For an overview of the question types, please visit the Ans website here. Please bear in mind that 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.

Please get in touch with DigitalExams@TuDelft.nl with your request to remove an assignment in a summative course.

Ans allows you to create a paper-based assignment that you can print for your students. When the exams are filled in, you can scan them and upload them to Ans, after which you can review them online. Ans can also grade-specific questions once the exams are scanned automatically. In case you want to have a paper-based exam, you can contact the following parties for support: In case you want to have a paper-based exam, you can contact the following parties for support:

• Your faculty assessment advisors for printing and scanning your exams. They will be able to either help you themselves or direct you to the party responsible for this process.
• DigitalExams for help creating the assignment and questions and adding your students to your Ans course.

You can add teaching staff with a TU Delft employee account when you have a 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. The external teaching staff must have a TU Delft account to be able to access the TU Delft Ans environment. When you can access your course, you have the ability to add teaching access to the TU Delft employee account. To receive a TU Delft account, please get in touch with 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.
3. Search and check the person you want to add and click on Add.

Contact DigitalExams via digitalexams@tudelft.nl if your Ans course contains “EXAMS” in the title.

Please do not link this course to your Brightspace environment. If your course is created for an exam that students need to register for via Osiris, DigitalExams will be able to get the list of students from Osiris to add them to your course. If this is not the case, please deliver a list of students that need to be added yourself.

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 does not 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.

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 a 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 they have been invited to review.

TAs that assist with creating questions and assignments can be assigned the Instructor role, granted that they have an employee account (including 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 DigitalExams@TUDelft.nl  with your request to assign your TA an instructor role in Ans for summative testing.