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YouTestMe Distance Learning SoftwareUser Presentation

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests

Reporting and statistics

Effects of YouTestMe

What is YTMRole managementCreating courses & classesCreating question poolsGenerating testsReporting and statisticsEffects of YouTestMe

Agenda

Let us introduce ourselves…

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Who Are We?

We specializeWe are We strive

We are an information technology company offering the business

world new options and ideas in the computer

industry

We specialize in software development, consulting and delivery

of complete information technology solutions for

our clients

We strive to see the world through our

clients’ eyes and offer advice and solution for

their most pressing problems

We have provided solutions to over 500 companies

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



What Is YouTestMe?

Teachers and professors

YouTestMe is a distance learning software specialized in test generating

Students and learners Educational institution

WE OFFER BENEFITS FOR

• Easy administration• Time saving testing• Knowledge data base• Automatic grading• Criteria based test

generating

• Real-time results• Test knowledge whenever• Previous performances

insight• Flexible test taking• Intuitive environment

• Easy implementation• Easy data manipulation• Flexibility• Scalability• Safety• Easy maintenance

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



This Is How YouTestMe Work

Core elements of YouTestMe software

Reporting engine

Web User Interface

Test Generator

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What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



YTM Specifications

GDAO technology

DB Analyzer

Java Server Faces JSF 2.0

JasperReports

Prime Faces

Easier development

Easier manipulation of structure and data

Suitable for large number of users and features

Easier maintenance

Doesn’t limit the user

Possibilities of YouTestMe Software

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



This Is How YouTestMe Works

Test generating funnel

How do we make it happen?

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Types Of Profiles And Accesses

3 types of roles: Administrator, professor and student

Profile type Authorization

Administrator

Professor

Student

• Authorize accesses to question pools to other roles

• Have total access

• Create question pools• Generate tests• Authorize access to students

• Take tests• View authorized content

Level of access

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3* 1 - the widest access

3 - the narrowest access

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Types Of Profiles And Accesses

Example 1: User profile information

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating Courses & Classes

Hierarchy of courses and classes enables easier filtering and organizing

Course 1 Course 2 Course 3

Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6

Flexible organization of courses and classesEasy filtering when sharing tests

Adjustable for any courses & classes structure

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Examples of use of courses and classes relationship

Case Study Competitors – Advanced Marketing

1 class - 1 course

A7 Group – Finance Management, Economics, etc.

1 class - N courses

A1, A2, A3 Groups – Numerical Analysis

N classes - 1 course

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Example 2: Course overview

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 3: Assignment of classes to courses


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 4: Class management


We would like to introduce you to the concept of

Knowledge database…

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating Question Pools

Creating a question funnel

Enter new question

Define question type

Define level of difficulty

Define frequency factor

Enter into an existing pool or create new

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Hierarchy of pools

Allowed access to other users

1. Pools2. Sub pools

1. Private2. Read-only3. Modify

Supported features

1. Math functions 2. Styling3. Images

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Add question




Define explanation and save

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• Select an existing question pool • Create a new pool

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Add question





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• Single answer• Multiple answers• True/false• Gap fill• Ordering• Match• Essay

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Add question





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• Easy• Medium• Hard

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Add question





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• Never • Rarely• Normal • Often• Always

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests




Add question





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• Feedback• Explanation• Correct answer

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 5: Pool preview


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 6: Question editor


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 7: Single choice and Multiple choice questions


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 8: Matching and Ordering questions


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Example 9: Fill in the blanks question


Now, we are proud to present you our

testing engine!

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

Alternatives for test creation

Multiple options for generating tests

Entering new questions manually Not using

Generating the test automatically without criteria Fully using

Generating the test automatically with criteria Fully using

Mixing manual and automatic test generating Partial using

Use previously created tests /

Use of existing questions from pools

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

Test design

Questions criteria

Standardization

Grading system

Test taking

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Creating the test funnel

• Template• Type of test• Duration• Look type• Feedback• Random order

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• Template is referring to the grading scale, look type of the test, used pools, used criteria, etc.

• Create test from scratch or use previously used templates

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• Quiz Creation Type is referring to the choice weather to create all of the questions manually or select questions from pools using criteria

• Test can be fully manual, fully automatic or mixed

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• Duration is referring to time limitation that can be per whole quiz or per single question

• Quiz Duration is referring to the disposable time to submit the test if limitation is per whole quiz

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• Look Type is referring to appearance of the questions to the students

• Questions can be all on one page or each question on separate page

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• When to show report is referring to the time of giving the feedback about performance to students: as soon as they submit, or delayed, on professor’s approval

• Report comments is referring to the content of the feedback given: grade only, explanation, etc.

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests


• Random Question Order for Every User is referred to shuffling of questions of the same test for each student that a test is being shared with

• Random Answer Order For Every User is referred to shuffling of offered answers for each question.

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

Test design

Questions criteria

Standardization

Grading system

Test taking

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• Level of difficulty• Cut off date• Frequency factor


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Select Pool is referred to the collection of questions (pool) that questions for the particular test will be selected from

• For the same test you can choose from one or several pools and choose exact number of questions using criteria


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Level of Difficulty is a criteria that will help filter the questions you previously defined as easy, medium or hard

• From the same pool you can define exact number of each of the questions based on the level of difficulty


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Time of Last Occurrence is referred to selecting a point in time (cut off date) and not choosing questions who had appeared, when generating previous tests, after that point

• This criteria can be used when avoiding repetition of the questions through the same subject tests


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Frequency Factor is referred to the number of tests that will contain that question: every test, every other, none, etc.

• It is previously defined for each question and can be used as a criteria for filtering questions when generating a test


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

Test design

Questions criteria

Standardization

Grading system

Test taking

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• Number of unique tests• Universal number of points• Universal penalty points• Universal question duration

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Unique tests is referring to number of tests that will have the same question criteria but will choose different questions

• It is used for creating unique tests of the same difficulty


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Number of easy, medium and hard questions is referring to the criteria the questions are being selected by

• It is used for ensuring the same conditions for all the participants taking the test


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Points field is referred to number of points added to total score of a student, in case of a correct answer to a particular question

• Penalty field is referred to number of points deducted from total score of a student, in case of an incorrect answer to a particular question

• Each of these parameters is universal for all unique tests from the group


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Test design

Questions criteria

Standardization

Grading system

Test taking

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• Points per correct answer• Penalty per incorrect answer• Grading scale • Use/save template


Creating The Tests

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Grade Label is referring to type of grades: numeric or alphabetic and value for each interval of points

• Interval of points is referred to score of the student for the particular test

• Interval can be represented in points or percentages

• Grading System can be saved as a template and reused


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

Test design

Questions criteria

Standardization

Grading system

Test taking

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• Assigning• Scheduling• Sharing• Printing

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Assigning is referred to the students (users) who can take the test

• Students (users) can be filtered by course or class

• Students (users) can be invited to take the test and informed about performances after submission

• Generated tests can be shared, exported to pdf. For printing or just saved


What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Creating The Tests

• Scheduling is referring to the interval in future when the test will be available for taking

• Students get the notification when the test is scheduled and another notification when the test is available


We offer you a way to continuously improve through

feedbacks…

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Types of indicators about test success

Reporting and Statistics

Grade list

Report chart

Average performance

Question statistics

Points chart

Difficulty feedback

Successratio

Top and least answered

Automatic calculating of points and grading for each

Student based on predefined scoring system and grade intervals

Results and statistics displayed to professor and

notification sent to students about individual performance

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Grade list is referred to a list with individual results for each student

• Number of points, percentage and grade

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Report Chart is referred to grade breakdown graphically represented

• In number of users and percentage

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Average performance is referred to total performance on the test

• Average grade and average time of completion of the test

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Success ratio is referring to percentage of participants who have answered the question correctly

• Success ratio is measured for each particular question

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Question statistics is referred to each question individually

• For single choice, multiple choice and true/false types of questions

• Number of students who selected each of the offered answers

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Points Chart is referring to number of students grouped by the number of points they earned per question

• It can show total number of students who have answered correctly, not sure, incorrectly or earned specific number of points

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests





• Most occurred question is referring to the question that have appeared in most of the tests in case of multiple test groups of the same criteria

• Top answered question is referring to a question that had the most correct answers

And finally, we want to make sure you

are well familiar with the benefits of YTM…

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



What Do We Improve

Combining the best from both

Manual test creation Test creation with YTM

Specified criteria selection• Obligatory questions• Easy/medium/hard/advanced questions• Avoiding repetition of questions

Creation of different qroups of question for the same exam

Accurate evaluation

Preserved and automated



What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Benefits From Using YTM

YouTestMe offers benefits for all interested parties

Easy administration of courses and classes

Creating ad hoc and unique tests for each student

Creating different tests of the same difficulty

Test creating, evaluating and reporting within seconds

Application as a personal assistant – test appointments

Personal knowledge database

For educators

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Benefits From Using YTM

YouTestMe offers benefits for all interested parties

Level of prepareness evaluation before the exam/test

Insight into previous performances

Real time results provided with feedback

Probationary test creation from the authorized pools

Better interaction with the subject

Personal knowledge database

For students

What is YTM

Role management

Courses & classes

Question pools

Creating tests



Answering To Current Trends In Education

Increased number of distance learning students

Question pools as disposable knowledge databases

Need for more interaction between students and educators

Encouraged more frequent testing with feedbacks

Hard to adjust outdated testing softwares GDAO technology that enables any adjustment and modification

Significant time spend onmanaging testing related activities

Automated activities with same precision

Large percentage of educational institutions with e-learning programs

Complementary to any Learning Management System

YouTestMe is in line with the changes in education

Trends YTM Answer

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