Create Sections on Formative Assessments?

mcdonald_emily

It would be helpful for teachers to have the ability to create sections in a Formative Assessment so that certain tools can be enabled for question items in certain sections of an assessment. For example, teachers want the ability to create an assessment with a section that does not have a calculator enabled and a section that does have a calculator enabled. Like Questions #1-5 does not have an online calculator enabled and Questions #6-15 does have an online calculator enabled as an online tool. I have received this request a few times from teachers in my district since sections are able to be created by district administrators on Benchmarks. Can the ability to make sections be available for teachers on Formative Assessments?

JenMurphyA

I agree this would be useful, @mcdonald_emily. You can create sections in benchmark assessments, but this is not currently possible in formative assessments. Would you be willing to contribute something about this to the Mastery collaborative roadmap?

A workaround might be to add tools such as calculators to individual items, but the items would have to be items that you or your district create, rather than items from an item bank.