Setting up and playing a Response assessment

Create a formative assessment to test student understanding so you can guide learning effectively.

Here is an example of a Response assessment. The screen on the left shows the classroom display, which show how far students are in answering quiz questions. The screen on the right shows a student device with questions appearing.

This example was created by entering a set of questions about fractions.

Follow these instructions to create your own version of this activity. When you’re done, tap Preview to see how the activity will appear to students.

  1. Click New to start creating a new lesson file.

    OR

    To add the assessment to an existing lesson, open the lesson in Editing mode, browse to the page that you want the activity to follow and click Add and select Response.

    The Response assessment editor opens.

  2. Select the question type for the first question. You can choose multiple choice, true or false, multiple answer, poll/opinion or short answer.

    Note 

    The question type determines the answer format. For example, a multiple-choice quiz gives four potential answers from A through D, while a true or false quiz will give only True and False answers for students to select.

  3. Enter a question and its answers. You can use up to 150 characters.

    Note 

    Each question requires at least two answers.

    Tip 

    To add an image, tap Imageimage.

  4. Select the correct answer for the question you just added.

  5. Use the Add Question button to continue adding questions. Above the Enter a question text box, you can change the question type for each question that you add. To go back and edit questions, use the Previous button.

  6. When you’re done adding questions, click Next to review all your questions.

  7. Click Finish.

    The assessment loads and then appears on a new lesson page.

  1. Direct students to hellosmart.com and have them connect their devices to your class so that they can participate in the assessment.

  2. After the students are connected, tap Start for class to begin the assessment.

    The assessment appears on students’ mobile devices, showing the first question.

  3. Students select their answers and tap the arrow in the bottom right of their screens to advance to the next question.

    As students answer questions, a live feed of assessment progress appears at the display.

  4. When all questions have been answered, students tap Submit all Answers and then tap Submit again to confirm their submission and complete the assessment.

    Tips 

    The activity controls appear on the left-hand side of the page:

    • Use Activity settings to display the class ID and see a list of connected students.

    • Use Reset to erase activity data and start over.

  1. To end the activity, tap End Activity and then tap End and Review in the End Activity? dialog that appears.

    Question-by-question results appear on the classroom display.

  2. Use the arrow in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next question’s results.

  3. When you are finished reviewing results with the class, you have the following options:

    • Export results – tap Export Results in the bottom right corner of the screen to save assessment results in a Microsoft Excel file.

    • Reset the activity – tap ResetReset in the Delivery mode control bar on the left to reset the assessment.

When you end the assessment, students get instant feedback on their devices for each question.

Students can review results by:

  • Using the arrows at the top of their screen to scroll through the questions to see how they did on each one.

  • Tapping the hamburger menu in the top right corner to display results for all of the questions together with the percentage of questions answered correctly at the bottom of the screen.