Test Centre
Test Centre enables staff to create and manage a variety of assessment tasks ranging from simple online quizzes to multi-part assignments. It is now available in project sites and as an elective tool in subject sites.
Subject Coordinators are encouraged to read the approved updated (October 2011) Guidelines for the use of Test Centre including risk management and appropriate use of the software for summative and formative assessment to ensure they comply with good practice in online assessment.
There is an LTS Common Teaching Standards workshop on online assessment available on request (contact your ED).
Decommissioning OASIS. At the end of 201190 OASIS will no longer be available for use as an elective tool in Interact. Any staff who have tests or student results data in OASIS which they wish to save and/or move into Test Centre can find information about the processes and support available on the Interact OASIS Help page.
Student Guide
If you are a student and need help with Test Centre you should start by reading the Student Help Guide [.pdf]
Staff Guides
Overview & FAQ's
- Cheat sheet for Test Centre – the test creation process [.pdf]
- Guidelines to using Test Centre at CSU [.pdf] [Updated Ocober 2011]
- Quick guide to Test Centre – getting started with Test Centre [.pdf]
Creating tests and quizzes in Test Centre
- 1 How to create an assessment in Test Centre [.pdf]
- 2 Creating question pools and questions [.pdf]
- 3 Importing questions from a text file (offline question authoring) [.pdf]- and the sample file [.txt] you to show you the format should use when writing questions.
- 4 Importing questions from another interact site [.pdf]
- 5 importing questions from a other sources, eg from Textbook Publishers question banks [.pdf]
- 6 creating assessments [.pdf]
- 7 importing assessments [.pdf]
- 8 publishing an assessment [.pdf]
- 9 test-driving the assessment [.pdf]