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In this article you find the following information:
- Background
- Opening Quick publish
- Creating a draft assignment
- Creating an approved assignment and schedule it
- Limitations of Quick publish
- Roles and permissions related to Quick publish
Background
As an author, you can use Quick publish to create an assignment starting from a folder in the assessmentQ item bank. You can choose to create:
- a draft assignment, or
- an approved assignment and schedule it for your participants
Quick publish thus allows you to speed up the process of creating and/or scheduling your assignment, as you don't need to go to the Assignments or Scheduling modules first.
Note: When you create an exam, you can also choose to secure your exam with Safe Exam Browser. This is not possible for exercise assignments. More information.
Opening Quick publish
Proceed as follows to open Quick publish :
- Go to Authoring > Items.
- Go to the folder containing the items you want to add to your assignment.
- Click on the three dots next to the folder of your choice.
- Click on Quick publish.
Result: A dialog window with a wizard appears. The wizard will guide you through the Quick Publish process. See below for more info about Creating a draft assignment or Creating an approved assignment and schedule it for your participants.
Creating a draft assignment
Proceed as follows to create a draft assignment using Quick publish :
- Open Quick publish. More information.
- In the step Goal, choose Create a draft assignment and click Next.
Result: You go to the next step Settings.
- In the step Settings, determine the settings for your assignment and click Next.
Notes:
- The name of the assignment will be shown to your users in the assessmentQ player.
- When you create an exam assignment, the Security step will become active.
Result: If you create an exam, you proceed to the Security step. If you create an exercise, you proceed to the Overview step.
- In the step Overview, verify your assignment settings and click Save at the bottom right.
Result: The dialog window is closed and you see a message confirming that your draft assignment has been created. You can now edit and approve your assignment in the Assignments module. More information.
Creating an approved assignment and schedule it
Proceed as follows to create an approved assignment and schedule it using Quick publish :
- Open Quick publish. More informatio
- In the step Goal, choose Create and assignment and schedule it for your participants and click Next.
Note: If you don't see the option to Create an assignment and schedule it for your participants, you may not have the required permissions. For more information, see Roles and Permissions related to Quick Publish below.
Result: You go to the next step Settings.
- In the step Settings:
- Determine the settings for your assignment.
- Select the delivery type. More information.
- Click Next.
Notes:
- The name of the assignment will be shown to your users in the assessmentQ player.
- When you create an exam assignment, the Security step will become active.
Result: You go to the next step Timing.
- In the step timing:
- Define the availability period for your schedule.
- Optionally, define a review period.
- Optionally, define a time limit for your assignment in your schedule.
- Click Next.
Result: You go to the next step Participants.
- In the step Participants, determine for whom the assignment should be available (individual users and/or groups) and click Next.
Result:- If you are creating an exam, the Security step appears.
- If you are creating an exercise, the Overview step appears.
- In the step Overview, verify the settings for your assignment and schedule and click Save at the bottom right.
Result: The dialog window is closed and you see a message confirming that your schedule has been created.
Limitations of Quick publish
With Quick Publish, backoffice users who have the required permissions can deliver content from within the item bank. In this way, the basic workflow (from creating items to publishing them) is fully supported from the assessmentQ item bank.
Because this is a Quick Publish, you do not have all the options available that you would have in the corresponding assessmentQ modules, only the most important ones.
In Quick Publish, you cannot:
- Add a time limit for a part.
- Override assignment template settings.
- Change the order of parts or items in an assignment.
- Publish the items in alphabetical order.
- Add or remove parts.
- Define different minimum scores per part (all parts have the same minimum score).
- Publish the results for a schedule.
- Send notification emails for a schedule.
- Add more than one assignment to a schedule.
All of these options remain possible in the Assignments and Schedules modules.
Roles and permissions related to Quick Publish
As a backoffice user, you may not necessarily see all the options of Quick publish depending on your role.
Overview
Admin | Author Scheduler |
Author | Scheduler | |
Has access to the item bank | X | X | X | |
Quick publish: create draft assignment | X | X | X | |
Quick publish: create a validated assignment and schedule it | X | X |
Notes:
- If you want to allow an author to schedule the assignment for participants, he needs to get the Scheduler role as well.
- If you want a scheduler to use Quick publish, he needs to get the author role as well to get access to the item bank.