USMLE-Easy User Guide Faculty/Admin

USMLE-Easy User Guide Faculty/Admin

USMLE-Easy: Types of Users There are three types of users on USMLE-Easy: Admin, Instructor, and Student. This guide covers Admin and Instructor functionality only. Admin- An Institutional admin allows you to see all registered users associated with your account, and run reports on the number of user logins. This is also where you set up classes (please note the class functionality will not be available until early 2015). If you are a new subscriber, your admin login can be found in your welcome letter. If you have migrated to the new platform, your admin login is the same as your institutional username and password on the old site. Instructor- Instructors have access to a completely separate Question Bank than USMLE-Easy students. Instructors can assign custom tests to students and view detailed reports on student progress. Instructors can send feedback directly to individual students, or interact with all students via the Course Stream feature. Student- Student users can create a personalized Study Plan and take adaptive quizzes and practice tests. They can also take tests assigned by an instructor and interact with students and instructors via the Course Stream feature.

USMLE-Easy: Admin User

Admin Dashboard The Admin Dashboard is where you can monitor all logins for your institutional account.

Admin Dashboard You can select a date range from the calendar, or choose to run a daily, weekly, or monthly report. All reports can be downloaded to a.csv file.

Admin Dashboard: All Courses If you subscribe to more than one site, you can switch between sites using the dropdown menu.

Manage Users: Search To view individual users, select Manage Users from the drop down menu. You can Search by name or email.

Manage Users: Browse Choose the Browse option to view the full list of users.

Manage Users: Browse You can view user information or reset a user s password by clicking on their name.

Add A New user You can create new student or instructor accounts from the admin account page. Students can also create their own accounts, but Instructor accounts must be created by the account admin. 1. Select Browse 2. Select the appropriate Course and Class Section 3. Click on + New user

Add A New user (continued) 4. Enter in the required information 5. Specify if the user is to be a Student or an Instructor 6. Click Save

Manage Courses This page allows you to see all of your subscribed sites and the number of registered users for each.

Manage Class Sections This functionality is not yet live, but will be available in 2015!

Access Reports Allows you to run login reports. Also available on the dashboard.

USMLE-Easy: Instructor

Instructor Dashboard From this dashboard you can monitor recent activity and access assignments

Instructor Dashboard (continued) View your recently created tests

Instructor Dashboard (continued) View snapshot of student performance metrics

Instructor Dashboard (continued) Average Class Participation: Calculated by student participation in Course Stream activities including posting links or files, starting or responding to a discussion, or liking a comment or discussion. Average Time Spent: Score is calculated from the time spent on any question and time spent while viewing any lesson content Average Question Performance: Percentage based on the number of questions answered correctly out of the total number of questions attempted. Average Questions Attempted: Average number of questions attempted among all students.

Instructor Dashboard (continued) See recent activity including new assignments and discussions and access the Course Stream.

Course Stream This tool allows you to collaborate with other users by starting a discussion, posting a link or a file, or responding to a question

Course Stream (continued) Your content can be shared with all users associated with your institution, or you can type in the name of individuals to share only with those users.

Assignment Summary Shows the status of all current and past assignments. From this page you can view student responses and create new assignments.

Create a New Assignment 1. Click on Question Banks 2. Click on + Create Custom Assignment

Create a New Assignment (continued) Enter in a name and description for the assignment, then select questions using the Search or Browse options

Search For Questions Enter in a topic or search term then select specific questions by checking the box to the left of the question.

Browse For Questions To browse questions, you can choose to filter by Objective, Difficulty Level, and Question Type

Browse For Questions (continued) Now you can select questions based on your selected filters and add them to your assignment.

Selected Questions This tab displays all questions selected for your assignment. You can delete questions, select the option to grade questions manually, or change the point value of questions.

Assign a Test Once you have selected questions, you have the option of assigning the test immediately or saving it to your library to assign later.

Assign a Test Now When you assign a test the Assign To field will automatically populate with all subscribers associated with your account. You can erase this information and type in the names of individual users, as well. You can specify when you want users to receive the assignment and the date and time that it is due.

Save Test to Your Library Tests saved to your library can be assigned at any time by clicking the blue icon.

Editing a Test If a test has been assigned but no students have begun working, it can still be edited or deleted. Once a student has started a test it becomes locked and can no longer be edited.

View Student Responses Once a test has been submitted, the instructor can view student responses

View Student Responses You can see the percentage of questions the student answered and view their responses to each

View Student Responses Instructors can leave feedback for students on individual questions.

Post a Message Instructors can also post a general message about the test. This can be sent to all students who completed this assignment, or only certain students

Proficiency Reports Proficiency reports combine student data from assignments, adaptive quizzes, and practice tests. These reports require a minimum of 10 answered questions from students before they will appear on the list. Factors included in these reports are number of questions answered, percent correct, and student confidence

Proficiency Reports (continued) Reports can be accessed from the dropdown navigation and reports can be exported to a CSV file.

Class Proficiency by Category The first graph shows student proficiency by test category. To drill down on specific objective, click on the hyperlinked number below each category.

Class Proficiency by Objective The second graph measures student performance by test learning objectives. To drill down to specific questions, click on the hyperlinked number under each objective.

Class Proficiency by Question This graph shows student performance on each question taken within a particular learning objective. The view a specific question, click on the hyperlinked number below.

Class Proficiency by Question (continued) Here you can view each question, see its difficulty ranking, see the percentage of students to answer it correctly, and see recommended study topics.

If you have additional questions about USMLE- Easy, or would like to schedule training, please contact us at userservices@mhprofessional.com