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Want to learn how to use EDU?
While EDU is a tool that anyone can master, it is a complex assessment tool which requires more than a link to a 'how to use' document. Based on best practices we have learned here at Babson, kicking off your EDU use with a chat with a faculty member using EDU or a member of CITG is the best starting point. Contact CITG to get the name(s) of a faculty to chat with or to schedule a face-to-face session.
Why should I use EDU?
Lots of reasons! The goal is to help students learn material. Simply put, EDU helps students learn. How?
- Provide students with self-service skills mastery within a course and between semesters
- Help students prepare themselves for an exam
- Gain feedback on where students are having trouble with various concepts
- Give an in- or out-of-class quiz or exam
- Use for placement assessment
- Reinforce class concepts
- Provide "active learning" for students (i.e. hands-on learn-by-doing)
- Provide remediation for basic skills without taking away from class time
- Provide challenges for advanced students without pacing the class too advanced for the average students
Check out who is currently using EDU at Babson!
What types of assessment can be created with EDU?
While you might think that EDU is only useful for creating exams and quizzes, those are only two of the many types of assessments you can create, including:
- Student study session
- Mastery
- Homework/quiz
- Anonymous practice
- Proctored assessment
What types of questions can be created using EDU?
Don't balk at the sound of "multiple choice" or "fill in the blank." Using EDU does not mean taking a step backward from the robust assessment that takes place at Babson. You'd be surprised about the depth with which faculty can assess using EDU's many types of questions, including:
- Short Answer/Essay
- True False
- Mathematical
- Computational
- Clickable image map
- Numerical calculations
- Fill in the blank
- Matching
- Multiple Answer
- Multiple Choice
Take a look at the EDU features chart!
What else does EDU offer?
EDU is not just a test engine. Its features help faculty create all sorts of skill-building tools.
- Randomization of questions (so no two students have the same questions in the same order)
- Randomization of variables (so even if two students have the same problem, the variables can be different)
- Time restriction (to simulate a test environment and help students learn how to do their best in a certain amount of time)
- Display a hint for a question (useful when the student just needs one more piece of information, like a formula, to successfully complete a problem)
- Display a comment for a question (useful as a study tool to encourage students to study more and help direct their studying to what they still need to learn)
- Show student(s) feedback at the end of an assessment (because it's nice to get feedback!)
- Show student(s) grade information at the end of an assessment (even in a self-paced skill-building tutorial, students can get "graded" on their work so they know how they are doing on a particular topic)
- Immediate student feedback
- Automatic assessment grading
- Automated communication of grades
Thinking about using EDU?
Take a look at some of these helpful online resources focused on online assessments:
Ready to use EDU?
Contact CITG to get started today!
Available Babson Documentation
Using EDU and need student instructions? Take a look at this pdf.
Want more details on EDU? Take a look at the CITG and Babson faculty created EDU Planning Guide.
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