Create new

Introduction

Creating a test for your students can take many forms, depending on the skills and knowledge you want to measure. Just as there are different ways to design a test, GradeChum gives you three ways to build the tests inside an activity:

• Upload questionnaire brings in a questionnaire you already have. This usually takes 1 to 5 minutes.
• Auto-generate test/s with AI lets our AI write the test for you from a topic or your notes. This usually takes 1 to 3 minutes.
• Add new test lets you build a test from scratch, one item at a time. This one takes longer.

Every new activity starts in the same place: the Create Activity modal, one scrolling form where you name the activity, choose how your students will answer it, and add its tests. In this section, we'll explore how to create a new activity in GradeChum, and how to edit or delete one later.

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Steps

To create a new activity, follow these instructions:

1. Open your class. Under the Activities tab, click Create activity > Create new. This opens the Create Activity modal.

2. On the step "Enter the activity name.", type a name for your activity in Activity name.

3. On the step "Select the type of activity.", choose how your students will answer. Choose Handwritten if they will answer on paper that you print and scan, or Online if they will answer inside GradeChum. If the course linked to your class has learning outcomes, you can also choose Outside GradeChum for work you grade yourself, such as a project or an oral recitation.

4. On the step "Add tests for this activity and add items per test.", click Add test and choose how you want to build this test:

• Upload questionnaire, to turn a .pdf, .docx, .pptx or .txt file into items.
• Auto-generate test/s with AI, to have AI write the items from a topic or your notes.
• Add new test, to add each item yourself.

5. Once your activity has tests, each one gets its own tab: Test I., Test II., and so on. Click a tab to open that test, drag a tab to reorder the tests, or click the x on a tab to remove that test. If the test has items, confirm in the Delete test? modal by clicking Delete.

6. Check the totals above the items. Activity items: and Activity score: count every test, while Test items: and Test score: count only the open test. Bonus items are counted in Bonus score: instead. To mix up the order of the open test's items, click Shuffle. It stays disabled until the test has more than one item.

7. If you teach the same lesson in other classes, open Optional step and pick the classes that should get a copy of this activity. See Linked classes for how the copies stay in step.

8. Review your activity, then click Create activity. For a Handwritten activity, the button stays disabled until the answer sheet has something on it, so add your items first. If something is still missing, GradeChum takes you to it, for example "Name is required" or "You need to have at least one item to create an activity".

9. Finally, for a Handwritten activity, GradeChum asks whether you want to generate shuffled item sets. Click Autogenerate set/s and choose how many to add (see Create sets), or click No thanks. An Online or Outside GradeChum activity shows a Success modal instead. Click Finish.

Save your progress as a draft

If you close the Create Activity modal before you create the activity, GradeChum asks whether to keep what you have filled in:

1. Click the back arrow at the top of the Create Activity modal. The Save as draft? modal opens, offering Save and close and No, discard changes.

2. Click Save and close to keep your progress for later, or No, discard changes to throw it away. If saving fails, you see "Failed to save draft." and the modal stays open so you can try again.

Edit an activity

You can change an activity after you create it, from its card in the Activities tab:

1. Click the three dots on the activity's card, then click Edit. This opens the Edit Activity modal, with the same steps you filled in when you created it.

2. Make your changes. Once you change something, a banner reads "You have unsaved changes." To undo every change, click Revert to original, then Proceed.

3. Finally, click Save activity, then click Finish on the Success modal.

Editing an activity made with an older answer sheet

Activities created before the current answer sheet keep their original layout. In one of them, Add new test first asks what kind of test to add:

1. Choose Shading for multiple-choice items that students answer by shading, or Answer Box for every other item type.
2. An activity can hold only one shading test. When it already has one, Shading is grayed out with "You can only add one (1) shading test for an activity."
3. If your school's administrator has turned off shading tests, Shading is grayed out with "Your administrator has disabled shading tests.", and saving an activity that still has a shading test is blocked with the same message. Put your multiple-choice items in an Answer Box test instead.
4. An older answer sheet holds at most 10 pages. When it is full, Add test is disabled with "You cannot add more test types because you have reached the 10 page limit."

Delete an activity

Deleting an activity removes it from your class:

1. Click the three dots on the activity's card, then click Delete.

2. In the Delete? modal, click Delete to confirm, or Back to keep the activity.

3. Finally, click Finish on the Success modal.

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And that's how you create a new activity in GradeChum! Next, let's build a test by uploading a questionnaire.