Elearning:Effective practices for Quiz Preparation

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Best Practices for Students Taking a WebCT Vista Online Quiz/Assessment

Some general tips to pass along to your students prior to taking a Quiz:

  • Advise students to verify their browser meets WebCT Vista requirements by running “check browser” located on myVista page or click on this link: verify your browser compatibility (auto-check)
  • Advise students to be aware that after 90 minutes of inactivity (i.e., user logs onto WebCT Vista but does nothing during the session), their session will time out.
  • Prior to taking the quiz, users should log out of the session, close the browser window and then log in with a fresh browser window.
  • Remind students to click “save answer” for each question (good practice).
  • For quizzes that require long paragraph answers, the students should compose the response in a text editor then cut/paste the response in quiz (good practice – student maintains a copy of the answer in event of session timeout).

File submissions

When attaching a submission, please exclude special characters such as (% # - @ *) in the file name as they are not supported within WebCT Vista.

Discrepancies in User activity

Please also view the WebCT Vista System Information