With Cadmus, you can release instructions to students in stages, creating an authentic assessment experience. This is a great way to contain the entire assessment experience within Cadmus, encouraging students to prepare notes and research before completing a structured, time-limited task.
Here are a few ideas for creating staged assessments:
- Give students an initial topic for research, followed by a focused essay topic or question.
- Provide students with a case study to analyse in Cadmus, before releasing questions to answer in a limited time.
To set up a staged assessment:
- Create a Cadmus link, and use the LMS functionality to set when you would like students to access the task
- Set up your Cadmus assessment as you’d like it to be in the first stage of your assessment
- Release these instructions immediately to students
- Update the instructions to what you would like students to see in the second stage of the assessment
- Use a scheduled release to set the date and time at which you would like the second stage of instructions to become available
You'll then be able to review the two stages of released instructions from the Instructions tab.
NOTE: If you have set a scheduled release for your first stage of instructions, you will need to wait until these instructions become visible to students before releasing or scheduling the next instructions update — that is, you can only set one scheduled instructions release at a time.