Assessment Indices v4.3 and later (earlier versions)

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Test Pilot Assessment Indices provide:

• administrators with a means to delegate the tasks of managing individual assessments and access lists,
  
  
• authors with the means to manage their assessments, shared user and workstation lists, predefined e-mail messages, gradebook and event calendars, and
  
  
• participants with a single point (URL) to use to access an author's prepared materials.

The index list shows a list of assessment indices and their owners. This interface allows the Test Pilot administrator to create, delete and reassign ownership of an assessment index.

There MUST be at least one authorized author defined
in order to create an assessment index.

New Assessment Index

To create an assessment index, you must define a URL which will be used to access the index. Shown alongside the Make button is your server's name. You'll need to complete the URL including a valid Test Pilot index filename ending in .tpx. The name may ONLY include characters from a..z, A..Z and from 0..9 plus the slash (/) character. Once you have entered the completed URL, select an author name from the popup list to the right.

If you check the notify box and the author whom you have chosen to won the index has an e-mail address defined in the author list, an automatic e-mail message will be sent to the author informing them that an assessment index has been created for them including instructions and the URL's for accessing the index.

Once you have made your selections, click the Make button and Test Pilot will create an assessment index owned by the selected author and accessible using the URL entered.

In the above example, if you entered fred/index.tpx in the box and clicked the Make button. an assessment index accessible using the URL http://localhost/fred/index.tpx and owned by Fred Flintsone, Jr. would be created. The following URL's would then be available for accessing the assessment index from any internet browser:

• general access - http://localhost/fred/index.tpx
  
  
• management access - http://localhost/fred/index.tpx?manage

Note that in the case where you may specify a path to the index using slashes, the intervening directories as listed in the URL must exist. For example, if you entered tests/joe/index.tpx in the box, the directory tests must exist at your web server's root directory. Within tests, the joe subdirectory must also exist.

Managing Indices

Once you have defined an assessment index, it will appear in the list along with a management link. You may click upon the link to begin management of the index. You will be challenged to enter the owning author's id and password before management access is granted.

Reassigning Ownership

You may reassign an assessment index to be owned by another author. To do this, select a new author from the list provided and click the associated Assign button for the desired index.

Deleting Indices

You may delete an assessment index. But, be careful!

Note that if you delete an assessment index, all enclosed assessments, submissions, shared user and workstation lists, predefined e-mail messages, gradebooks, and event lists will be UNRECOVERABLY deleted. Thus, this option should be exercised with GREAT CARE!

To delete an assessment index, check the enable deletion checkbox and then click the Delete button associated with the index to be deleted.

Enabling and Disabling Indices

You may enable or disable an index by checking and unchecking the index's associated enable checkbox. When an index is disabled, no one, including its owner may access it or any of its enclosed assessments.