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What’s in the new assessment experience?

The new and improved OHM assessment experience includes:

  • Modern, simplified student user interface
  • Updated equation editor makes entering answer easier for students
  • Awesome mobile keyboard experience using equation editor
  • True test retakes
  • By part submission for multi-part questions

Information about the additional value and features of this assessment experience, can be found here. 

 

When should I upgrade the assessment experience?

The new OHM assessment experience introduces new features and functionality that positively impact the user experience, and we’re eager to see students benefit from it. We originally launched a beta version of the new assessment experience in July 2019. Since May 2020, the new assessment format has been the default in all new OHM courses. As of May 25, 2021 the previous assessment format will be officially retired and no longer supported. If you need to upgrade your courses to the new experience, the questions below will help you prepare for the transition:

  • Are other faculty looking to you for training? If others rely on you for training, you’ll want to get very comfortable with the new experience before training colleagues.
  • Are there internal department training materials or other documentation that need updating? If your department uses training materials for faculty or students, you should make sure these materials or other documentation are updated to reflect the new assessment experience when you deploy it.
  • Are there classroom instructions that need updating? If you or your departmental colleagues have developed classroom instructions for students using OHM, you should make sure your upgrade timing allows you to have these instructions updated to reflect the new experience.

 

What if I want to stick with the old assessment format?

After May 25, 2021 the old assessment format will no longer be officially supported. This means all new courses will automatically utilize the new assessment experience and there will be no updates, upgrades, or bug fixes to the old assessment format. 

Note that currently, users can only convert OHM courses to the new format by creating a copy of an existing or template course.  If there is a need to convert an existing course (without creating a new course), please submit a ticket at support.lumenlearning.com

 

How do I upgrade to the new assessment format?

Note that currently, users can only convert OHM courses to the new format by creating a copy of an existing or template course.  If there is a need to convert an existing course (without creating a new course), please submit a ticket at support.lumenlearning.com

To opt in for the new assessment experience:

For direct log in users: 

  1. From your OHM course page, click on “Add new course”.

  2. Click either "Copy a template course" or "Copy from an existing course" and select the course to copy.

  3. Click "Course Copy Options" to show the options and select the “Upgrade assessment version” checkbox. 

  4. When you click on “Submit” at the bottom of the screen, it will automatically upgrade the new course’s assessments to the new experience. 

 

For LMS integrated OHM users:

  1. Within your Learning Management System (LMS), follow course copy steps to copy your existing LMS integrated OHM course into your new semester course site.

  2. When clicking on an OHM assessment link from your LMS for the first time, you will be prompted to either Associate or Copy. Select Copy and check the “Upgrade assessment version” checkbox.

  3.  When you click on “Submit,” it will automatically upgrade the new course’s assessments to the new experience.