Upload questionnaire
Introduction
Most teachers already have their tests written down: a quiz saved as a document, slides from last term, a printed exam typed up years ago. Rebuilding every item by hand in GradeChum would take longer than writing the test did.
Uploading a questionnaire lets you reuse that work. You give GradeChum your file, and our system reads its questions, answers and tests and turns them into items you can review before you save. It usually takes 1 to 5 minutes.
In this segment, we will explore how to create an activity by uploading your own questionnaire.
Steps
Note: Start the activity first. Under the Activities tab of your class, click + Create activity > Create new, enter the activity name and select the type of activity, as shown in Create new.
To create an activity by uploading a questionnaire, follow these instructions:
- Under Add tests for this activity and add items per test., click + Add test, then select Upload questionnaire.
- The Upload Questionnaire modal opens, with an Upload file button and a drag-and-drop area above its Instructions:. Check your file against those instructions before you upload it:
- The file is a .pdf, .docx, .pptx or .txt file.
- The file is no larger than 10MB.
- For multiple-choice questions, we read up to 5 options (A to E) per item.
- If an item in your file has no answer, we generate one for it automatically.
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Click Upload file and choose your questionnaire among your files, or drag and drop the file into the modal. You can upload one file at a time.
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Your file's name now shows in the modal. Click Upload to import it. If you picked the wrong file, click Remove and choose another one.
Note: If your file is too large, the modal shows "File size must not exceed 10MB." If it is not one of the supported formats, it shows "File type not supported. Please upload a valid file type." Save or export the questionnaire in a supported format and a smaller size, then choose it again.
- Wait while GradeChum imports your questionnaire. The modal counts up the progress, for example "[45%] Importing questionnaire...". Keep the Create Activity modal open until it finishes.
Note: If the import fails, the modal shows "Something went wrong. Please try again later." Click Upload to try again. If it keeps failing, the modal asks you to contact customer support, and you can report the issue to us.
- Once the import finishes, the banner Successfully imported test/s items! appears above your tests. Each test in your questionnaire becomes its own test in GradeChum, with its own tab (Test I., Test II., and so on).
- Review the imported items and edit any item you want to change. Imported items use the points you saved with Set default points, and essay-like items come with rubrics already written at the grading level you set as your default. To edit an item, follow Add new test.
Note: An Online activity cannot hold Code on paper or Visuals items, so any of those in your questionnaire are left out of the import.
- To import another questionnaire into the same activity, click + Add test beside your test tabs, select Upload questionnaire and repeat steps 3-7. The new tests are added after the ones you already have.
- Once you are done reviewing the items of your activity, click Create activity to save it.
Note: Before you click Create activity, you may open the Optional step, Create copies for other classes., and pick the other classes you want this activity in. The same activity, and for a Handwritten activity the same answer sheets, is created for every class you select, so a change you make in one class applies to all of them. To learn more, see Linked classes.
- For a Handwritten activity, GradeChum asks "Do you want to generate shuffled item sets for this activity?" To make sets, click Autogenerate set/s and follow Create sets. Otherwise, click No thanks. For an Online activity, click Finish on the Success modal instead.
- Finally, GradeChum opens the activity you just created, with the next things to do listed under Here's what to do next:.
Upload to a mock board class
A mock board class has one test that holds only multiple-choice items, so its Create Activity modal has no + Add test button. Click Upload questionnaire under Add tests for this activity and add items per test. instead (on a phone, the button reads Upload), then follow steps 2-7 above.
For a mock board class, we read only the multiple-choice questions in your file, up to 5 options per item and at most 100 items. Once the test holds 100 items, both Upload questionnaire and Add item manually are disabled, and hovering over them shows "You cannot add any more items as you have reached the 100-item limit." To learn more, see Mock board classes.
And that's how you create an activity by uploading a questionnaire! Next, let's explore how to autogenerate a test with AI.