Using Examview on Chromebooks

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ExamView on Chromebooks

You can use ExamView to deliver assessments to students via their Chromebooks.  Two known issues with Chromebooks:  1. Be sure that the students choose "download" instead of "view" in their emails.  2. Students may see two broken images at the bottom of the assessment. The one on the left is the submit button!  NOTE: The setup of the Exam View assessment should be done on a PC with the Exam View software.  Document created by Cheryl Hunter SV Uploading an ExamView Test to the Internet If you want images in your test, you have to do it a slightly different way.  1. You create and save the test using ExamView, which also creates an image folder for that test.  2. Put both the .htm (or .html) file and the folder in your Public HTML folder.  3. Click on the file so that it launches in a browser. You will see an address for that document that looks like this:  file:///H:/public_html/paddock_test.htm That address only has the location information for your local computer and cannot be used by other users to take the test. Instead you have to do one more thing.  4. Copy ALL of the text after file:///H:/public_html In this case, that would be /paddock_test.htm If I organized tests in folders inside my public_html folder, it might look something like this:  /tests/unit-1/paddock_test.htm 5. Attach that ending on to the end of this address: http://www.svh.richland2.org/~username/    (so for me, this would be http://www.svh.richland2.org/~jpaddock/) Full example: http://www.svh.richland2.org/~jpaddock/paddock_test.htm You can now send that link in a number of different ways to your students.  VERY IMPORTANT! Keep in mind that when you create the link this way, you are creating an open web page for anyone to view. It would be easy for a student to forward an emailed link to another student in a later class who then can see the whole test. Here are a couple of ways to address that:  1. Remove the test file from your Public_HTML folder when not testing.  2. Generate more than one version of the test.  3. Instead of emailing the link, create a TinyURL and write it on the board. This would make it a little bit harder for the students to write an email and send, though it would still be pretty easy to do. We do not recommend this method for major assessments for the security reasons, but it is a good way to fairly quickly deliver quizzes and provide the students quick feedback. Ideally, this testing method would be used more for formative, low-stakes assessments.