Students who access the practice lesson can record answers or practice their pronunciation as many times as they wish.

The instructor can however administer the material as a test instead of a practice.

The behaviour of the software for that activity will change if it is set as a test. Furthermore, depending on the Planner options selected, students will or will not be allowed to redo skipped item.
The table below shows the difference between the same activity in Practice and in Test mode:

Changing the Lesson Mode

To change or set the mode of an activity, select Test in the top menu bar.
The options listed under TEST allow an instructor to set the lesson to practice or to administer supervised tests to a class or to one or more individuals.

When the Test menu is displayed, a check mark will indicate the current selection for the activity.

1. Practice

This is the default mode of any activity created in CAN-8. In practice mode, the colour of the items in the student menu indicate if the item has been done or not, and in the case of the Fill-In-the-Blanks and Multiple-Choice Items, if the answer was correct or not.

• Green item titles are for correctly answered Multiple-Choice and Fill-in questions and for all recorded answers, corrected or not.
• Red item titles are incorrect Multiple Choices and Fill-in answers.
• Black titles mean the item has not been answered.

In this illustration, the 3 first items have not been answered, the next 3 have, but 2 are correct and one is wrong.

2. Test Sequence

The sequence to assign an activity in TEST mode involves 3 steps.

1. Wait to start,
2. Start test,
3. Review results.

Wait to start

This is the very first step to start a test. This option places the test offline while the students are signing on to the test.

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  Students signing on to the test receive a message indicating that the test is not yet available. Students scheduled for a test must wait with that window displayed on their screen until the instructor starts the test. The names of the students who are waiting to take the test are highlighted in blue (see Online user list). Depending on which options below is chosen for the test, the instructor either waits for all scheduled students to be online or, for an open test, can start it anytime.

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  The wait to start status is also indicated to the instructor in the Tracker's information field at the bottom of the screen.

As soon as the lesson is placed in one of the 3 Test modes, the Wait to Start message will disappear from the students' screens and the test will start automatically.

NOTE

when a lesson is set to TEST, the students cannot access oral messages previously left by instructors.

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Start Test For All Students

This mode opens the test to all users who select it in the menu, independently of the class they belong to or when they enter it, and it will remain available until it is placed in the Wait to Start mode again.

NOTES

• When in Test mode, the student will not receive feedback when taking a Multiple Choice or Fill-in Item if there is a mark assigned to these items.
• To help students identify the items that have been completed and those that were skipped, the completed items will show in green font in the menu, items that have been skipped in black font.
• As opposed to the Practice mode, if the Planner setting includes to leave the test menu to the students, the items titles will not turn red if incorrect. They will only show in green, for completed.

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For test with the default Menu layout, students can select which question they want to answer first and redo some of the questions at will.
Placing the lesson in sequential or random mode in the planner will remove the menu but not prevent the student from retrying items or submitting answers to skipped items unless the enable back button option is removed in the Planner.

NOTES

• To stop the test, but leave the students a chance to review their answers or view the questions they missed, select Review Results. Students will not be able to submit any answer.
• To stop the test and remove it from the test takers' screens, select the Wait to Start option. Student will no longer have access to their answers or to the questions they missed.

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Start Test for Selected Student

If testing needs to be done on an individual basis, it is possible to start one student at a time while preventing all other students from accessing the test.

The procedure is as follows:

• The lesson must be on Wait to start.
  When the student logs in and selects the lesson they will see the Waiting... window.

  
  
  
  
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  Once the student is in the lesson, the name is highlighted in blue in the Tracker's name section.
  
  Click on the student's name to select it.
  
  In this illustration the instructor selected User 14




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  To start the test, the instructor selects Test Options from the menu bar, and then Start Test For Selected Student. This starts the test for this student and this student only.




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  When the test starts, the student's name is highlighted in green in the Tracker.
  
  In the example on the left, there are 2 users started in this test: User 11 and User 14.

NOTES

• You can start several users individually, one at a time, by repeating this procedure for each one.
• You cannot stop the test for one student only if other students are taking the same test.

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Start Test for Online Students Only

The Start Test for Online Students Only option is a variation of Start test for all Students
Whereas Start test for all Students makes the test available to all users who access the lesson until the test is placed back in Wait to Start mode, Start Test for Online Students Only makes the test available to users who are waiting to start (Highlighted in blue in the Tracker) at the time the test is started.

Users attempting to access the test after the online group has started will receive the Wait to Start window and will be denied access to the test unless the instructor starts them individually.

To use the Start Online Students function:

• Highlight one of the students whose name is highlighted in blue.
• select the option Start Test for Online Students Only from the test menu.

NOTES

• Users entering the lesson after the test is started will be highlighted in blue as they will not be able to access the test.
• It is possible to start another group or individual students using the procedure for Start Test For Selected Student or Start Test for Online Students while others are already taking the test.
• Switching the test mode to wait to start will stop the test for all students and make it u\inaccessible again.

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Review Results

At the end of a test the instructor can select Review Results.
This ends the test for all students, even if they have not yet reached the end of the test.

Students can see the questions and their own answers if they previously took that test, but can no longer record or change previous answers, as indicated in the item's header bar.

Any attempt to record or type an answer while the test is in review mode will bring the warning message illustrated.

Students can access any oral message left before the test, or after the evaluation.

If a menu is present, Multiple-Choice and Fill-in Questions that were correct are show in green; they are shown in red if the answers were incorrect.

Since Multiple-Choice and Fill-in Questions are corrected by the system, the marks for these items are available right away and displayed. If the test is made entirely of Multiple-Choice or Fill-in items, the students will see their results right away.

All other types of items that need to be corrected and marked by instructors are displayed in green if they have been answered. If the Instructor has already marked them, the score shows beside the item name. If the answer has not been marked yet, only the score the answer is out of is displayed.

Items not taken are displayed in black.

To confirm that that the test is no longer available and that students are now unable to record, the instructors have a red alert located at the bottom of their Tracker screen

3. Show Scores

Selecting this option sorts the students on the Tracker screen by score. The highest scoring student is displayed at the top of the screen.

The scores for each student out of the maximum possible (only for the questions taken) are shown at the right of the screen. If students continue to work and answer more questions, or the instructor assigns more marks, the scores and the maximum for the questions are updated. However, the list of students is not sorted again until Show Scores is selected again.

NOTE

This option has no effect on the students' screen, only on the instructors' screen. It can be combined with any of the lesson modes.

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4. Final Mark

This option will display the final results onto the students' screens.

Only the Class Average and Highest (Mark) are common to all students who took that test. All other information like Mark and Rank are given individually. Each student sees his\her own mark out of the maximum possible in the test

The Final Mark is displayed to the student when the test is in Review Results or Practice mode.

The Final Mark window will be removed once the instructor deletes the student's data from the Tracker.

NOTE

This option should only be used at the end of the test, as the information it contains will not be updated if the students answers additional questions after it has been set.

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Monitor Students' Progress

The Progress Area.

To the right of each student's name is a set of colour-coded boxes that show the student's progress through the lesson.

This area, composed of coloured and/or empty cells, represents the entire lesson, with one cell per item that require an answer.

Unless the user list has been customized, the first cells row represents the answers of the user who first connected to that lesson. But if you click on the Progress header, the data below will be listed by order of progress for the section:

• The lines with the most correct answers first
• followed by the lines with the most answers, including wrong answers
• and finally, the lines with less answers, or no answers at all.

Independently of the order in which the student is recording the answers (for example when a lesson is set to random mode, the student may have to answer the last item of the lesson before being presented with the very first item of the same lesson) the cells will always be placed in the order they appear in the planner.

Each box or cell corresponds to a lesson item that requires a response from the student. Instruction, Teaching, and Conversation items do not have cells to represent them since the student cannot record in these items.

As soon as a student submits an answer (selects Next after recording in an item), the corresponding cell in the tracker is filled with the color that represents its content type. If the student skips an answer, the corresponding cell remains empty.

The cells' colour code is as follow:

zoom level			Response Type	Colour Code
			Empty cell	Default display of an empty Tracker cell. The student has not given an answer to that item.
			Audio or text	The student has submitted a response. The response is now available for listening.
			Audio or text	The instructor has listened to or viewed the response for this item.
			Audio or text	The instructor has recorded special audio instructions (left an audio message) for this item, but the student has not yet listened to the message.
			Audio or text	The student has listened to the message that was left and submitted a new response.
			Text	The student has correctly answered this Multiple-Choice or Fill-in question item.
			Text	The student has incorrectly answered this Multiple-Choice or Fill-in question item. The incorrect answer is available for review by the instructor.
NOTE: The largest view of a cell displays None instead of a score when the item has not been assigned a mark in the Planner.

• The default display is the middle zoom that shows fixed size cells with icons.
  Since a lesson can hold up to 240 items, all items cannot be displayed all at once on the same screen and a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the display area allows to view the rest of the lesson.
  
  
• The cells can however be displayed in a smaller size to give the entire overview of the students' progress for the entire lesson, even if it holds 2240 items.
• Alternatively, the cells can be displayed in a larger size to show additional details about each recorded cell and to facilitate the navigation when viewing the content.

To change from the default display to a global display or a more detailed one, click on the icons or of the zoom bar located at the bottom right of the interface or slide the zoom cursor at the desired level:

Default display	The colour code indicates the type of item The cells display an icon for: correct, incorrect and evaluate. The size of the cells is fixed. If there is more cells than can be displayed in one screen, horizontal and vertical navigation bars are present.
Global Display	The Global display shows the entire activity in one screen. the colour code indicates the type of items included in that activity. The size of the cells is not fixed. The more items are included in the activity, the smaller the cells will be to accommodate all the cells. It may be difficult to select the cells in this smaller display, but it does give a full overview of the students' progress through the activity.
Detailed display	The cells' colour code indicates the type of the item. The cells show the same icons than in the default display. The cells indicate the maximum mark the item is scored out of. For Multiple-Choice and Fill in items, the mark obtained is shown in the cell as it is given by the computer and does not have to be evaluated; grey cells will show a mark of 0/X as the instructor has not yet evaluated them. Green cells show the score given by the instructor after the item was evaluated. If there was no mark assigned for the item in the planner, the cell will show None. The size of the cells is fixed. If there is more cells than can be displayed in one screen, horizontal and vertical navigation bars are present.

Answer Display Section

For monitoring purposes, students' answers are divided into two types: Those the computers can evaluate, and those the instructor must evaluate and mark.

Whereas a computer can evaluate if an answer from a Multiple-Choice or a Fill-in question is correct or not by comparing it to the instructor's answer, it cannot evaluate an answer that does not meet these criteria, such as a recorded answer to an open question. These answers are easily identified in the Tracker by their colour. All answers (oral or written) that must be evaluated by an instructor are represented in the progress area by a grey cell.

To view or listen to an answer that requires an instructors' evaluation, double click on its corresponding cell.

Listen to Audio Responses

While a student is in an item that requires a recorded response such as an Example, a Read, or an Ask item, the student may record the response, listen to it, and re-record it several times to try and get it right. The item indicator (or corresponding cell in the Tracker) remains empty (light grey) during that time.

Only when the student has completed a satisfactory recording and presses the Next button does the indicator turn grey to show that the recording is available for listening by the instructor.

The instructor can then listen to the student's answer and to the original audio that was recorded in the item by the instructor.

Listen to Students' Recordings

To listen to students' recordings the instructor can:

• Using the mouse, select the item by clicking on it.
  
  
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  Right click on the cell and select Listen to Student Response


• Using the arrow keys of the keyboard, navigate to the cell you wish to listen to, and then press F2.

The Sound graph of the student response appears on lower part of the Tracker interface ( Answer Display section) and the response starts playing automatically.

The Play and Pause buttons can be pressed to listen repetitively to the recording, or part of it.
Alternatively, the Play cursor can be moved by clicking the mouse on any spot on the volume display. The sound will play from that point.

Listen to the Sample/Instructor's Recordings

It might be necessary for the instructor to listen to the question the student was responding to or compare the student's recording with the audio example given:

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  Press the Example button in the button bar.


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  Right-click again on the cell you are listening to and select Listen to Instructor Audio
  
  
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  The sound graph of the instructor's recording appears above the student's sound graph. To differentiate them, the audio part of the sound graph is displayed in cyan for the instructor, and green for the student.

To navigate from one recording to another, the instructor can:

• Use and on either sound graph respectively.
• Use and in the button bar, where the Play button activates the student audio and the Example button activates the Instructor's audio.
• Click directly on either volume graph to place the sound cursor at the desired pace and activate it.
• Use any combination of the above methods.

Once the recording has been listened to:

• select the Exit button located at the top right corner of the Sound graph if you wish to exit the listening mode.
• Or click on the next item cell if you wish to continue listening to more answers.
• Alternatively, use the Arrow keys and the F2 key to navigate through the Tracker and listen to another item.

As soon as you exit the volume graph, or move to another cell, the previously selected item now appears in green to indicate that it has been listened to.

View Students' Written Responses

Answers to the Written open questions can be viewed by double clicking on the items.
Alternatively, you can right click on the cell and select LISTEN TO > STUDENT'S ANSWER

To listen to the instructor's question, right click on the cell and selecting LISTEN TO > INSTRUCTOR'S RECORDING.
Once you exit the display window, the cell will turn green to indicate that it has been evaluated.

Self-Correcting Answers

The computer corrects the student's answers to Multiple-Choice and Fill-in answers.
Question items that are answered correctly are displayed in cyan cells. Question items that are incorrect are displayed in magenta cells.

These answers can be displayed for verification, independently of their status.

View Multiple-Choice Answers

In the Tracker, the answer to a Multiple-Choice is represented by a Cyan cell if it is correct or a magenta cell if the answer was incorrect.

Double-clicking on one of these cells displays the question text and the answers. The response the student selected is shown on a red or on a green background.

• This is the answer the student selected and is the correct one. The number of the answer is displayed on a green background.
• This is the answer the student selected, but it is incorrect. Incorrect answers are displayed on a red background.

The status of the options (correct or incorrect) set by the instructor in the planner are also displayed and colour coded:

• The answer(s) the instructor set as correct in the planner are displayed in green on a dark grey background.
  
• The answer(s) the instructor set as wrong in the planner are displayed in red on a dark grey background.

In the example above, the student chose answer #1. 1. was the correct choice as set by the instructor. 2. and 3. were set as wrong answers in the planner. The number is red. Note that it is possible to set more than one answer as correct. If such is the case, the answer that was set as correct, yet has not be chosen by the student as another possible true choice is displayed in green on Dark grey background.

In the example above, the student chose 2. for answer. 2. was not the correct answer, and therefore the student's response is displayed on red background. 1. was set as correct in the planner. The number is green. The student did not select it. 3. was set as an incorrect answer by the instructor, and the student did not select it. The number is red.

View Fill-In items

In the Tracker, answers to a Fill-in question are represented by cyan cells if correct, magenta cells when incorrect.
When clicking on one of these cells, both, the question and the text, are displayed.

In the above image, the response given was correct. The student's answer is shown in the black text area.	The Answer given in the above example is wrong. The student's wrong answer is shown in the black text box, the correct answer is shown underneath and is highlighted in green.

Select the exit button on the Answer Display area to return to the full Tracker screen or select the next cell to view the next item.

Leave a Message/Oral Feedback

After listening to a response, the instructor may decide to leave some oral feedback for the student or decide that the student should redo the item.

The student at login will receive a notification of the message. The student can then opt to listen to the message by selecting the link provided and will be brought directly to the lesson and the item where the message was left, or opt out opt out and proceed with another lesson.

The alert will come back as the student opens the main menu, until the message has been listened to.

All messages left in an item over time are kept and accessible by the students until the students' answers are deleted from the tracker.

In this illustration, the instructor has left 7 messages as indicated by the number on the icon. If the number is red, it indicates there is an unread message. If the number is black, it indicates the student has listened to all 7 messages.

To listen to the messages, the student can click on this button, then select the message to play.

Procedure to Leave a Message:

1. Select a cell in the tracker
2. Press either on the sound graph or in the button bar, or right click on the cell and select Record a Message for Student.
   To differentiate the message volume graph from the student's answer graph or the instructor sample audio, the message volume graph is red.


3. Once the message is finished recording, and as soon as the instructor either exits the graph or selects the next cell, the following prompt is displayed:
   
   
   

   • OK - The student will have to redo the exercise. The student will not be able to move to another exercise until this one is re-done.
   • NO- The student will hear the message, but redoing the exercise is optional.
   • CANCEL- removes the message from the item.


4. As soon as an option is selected, the cells turn red to show it now includes the message.
5. Once the student has listened to the message, the cell turns green if no answer was required or yellow if a new answer has been submitted.
6. Any item on the Tracker Screen, whether it contains an answer or not, can be selected for a message.

Call a Student

While monitoring a test or a lesson, it might become apparent that one of the students needs assistance, either because that student placed a call request (The Background of the student's name in the student's list turns red) or because the instructor notices skipped items or irregularities in the answers.

The Net Phone can be used to initiate a real time conversation between an instructor and a student. Students cannot initiate that call; only instructors can. However, students can send a call request.
A similar phone is displayed on the student's screen.

To terminate the call to the student, the instructor presses the Exit key.

There are several ways to initiate a call to a student:

• If the students are in the lesson, the Instructor can initiate the call from the Tracker by either:
  
  
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    The instructor first places the cursor on the name of the user to call, and then selects Phone > student from the menu Bar.
    
    The Net Phone showing the instructor's voice in the volume display appears on the screen.

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    Select the student to call then the Phone icon in the Left button bar. The Net Phone will start.

  
  
• If the students are NOT in the lesson, the Instructor can initiate the call from the Tracker by either:
  
  
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    selecting the Phone icon

  
  
  
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    then the Student List icon

  • and finally double clicking on the user name in the list displayed. This list only displays users that are online at the time.

Broadcast to All Students

The instructor can speak in real time to the entire class at the same time using the Phone Broadcast function.

This function can be accessed:

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  By selecting Phone > Broadcast from the menu bar.
  
  

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  Clicking on the phone icon from the left button bar,
  
  

  
  
  
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  then the broadcast icon on the SV Phone interface.

The SV Net Phone appears on the screen showing the instructor's voice.
Each of the CAN-8 users in an active session will receive an on-screen message telling them to Listen to the Announcement.