1. GETTING STARTED
To use ExamPad, you are expected to have logged in with your login email and password. If you have not registered on Acadar, you need to register first.
2. NAVIGATION
Once you are logged in, you click ExamPad in orange bar. At the ExamPad dashboard, you can see the following links:
Set Questions:
You use this to set new questions. You are expected to have added the course you want to set questions in to you pad. If you have not used ExamPad before or you want to add questions to a course you have not added to your pad before, first go to Manage Exams and add select the Exam and then the course. Remember that if you chose any exam during registration, the courses under that exam are automatically added to your pad.
Manage Exams:
You use this to add a course from an exam area you need to contribute questions in. You select the exam and click Go. The courses under the selected exam will then be listed down. You then tick against the course or courses you want and when you are done, make sure you click Add Selected To Pad. When successful you will see them among a listing of courses you have in your pad. You can also delete courses from your pad using the Edit link there or suggest a new exam that not yet on Acadar.
Manage Questions:
You can manage the questions you already have using this feature. This shows all your approved questions that are already in active mode in Acadar. Note that after editing a question, it may be relegated to the Sandbox pending another fresh approval.
Sandbox:
This is where all your submitted questions await approval. Once approved they will be promoted to the Exambank.
Recycle Pad:
Questions that did not survive the approval process are buffered in the Recycle Pad for 60 days. You are expected to refurbish it and repost within the first 30 days. After that anybody can improve upon it and take the credit. If after 60 days, nothing is done, it may be queued for deletion.
3. SETTING QUESTIONS
Setting questions is very easy. Just fill in the body of the questions and the options and submit. All questions are multiple choic questions with a question body and options numbered A to E. The Exampad engine expects fields for options A to D to be filled. Each question is expected to be accompanied by an Answer, Detailed Explanation, Memory Hints, and Area of Focus. These fields must be filled. However, you can fill in anything in these fields and submit if you plan on touching on them later. However, there different kinds of questions you may encounter. let's take them one by one.
Simple Multiple Choice Questions:
This is just a simple question with body, options, answer, explanations, memory hints, and area of focus.
Simple Questions with Illustrations:
Sometimes, a question may be accompanied by an illustration or picture. Use the Upload fields next to each field to upload the images. Accepted image formats include jpeg, png, gif.
Questions with Passage:
Some questions are linked together to one scenario, case study, or illustration. The passage which two or more questions depend upon is added using the Add Passage link. Once added a passage is available for as many questions as rely on it. Once the questions that rely on it are exhausted, click Quit Passage to unset. An illustration of what a passage is can be seen on click the dark icon next to the Add Passage tab.
4. QUESTION APPROVAL
Every question is vetted for quality,relevance to subject matter, degree of match to real exam question, correctness of grammar, and adherence to Acadar question format. All freshly-added questions are retained in the Sandbox pending approval. Once approved, the questions can be added to the Exambank where they are available for use. Approval is done on question-per-question basis and may altered in form and quality in the process
5. APPROVAL RATING SYSTEM
Each question is assessed for approval based on 5 standard parameters:
ORIGINALITY: This measures how original the question is. In a nutshell, it tries to ascertain whether you are the one who created the question or whether you are reproducing another person's work. Bear in mind that Acadar only defines originality by comparing your question against the ones in our exambank: it does not attempt to ascertain whether you are indeed the creator of first instance. This means that as long as the question you submitting does not already exist in our Exambank, you are deemed to be the original creator.
QUALITY: This assesses the extent to which the question measures when compared to sample exam questions from the target exam.
RELEVANCE: