Questionmark Perception - Support and Guidance
Questionmark Perception
QMP (Questionmark Perception) is an online tool for creating, delivering, and analysing assessments, available to all staff and students at Warwick. It supports various formats, including exams, quizzes, surveys, and questionnaires. With 20 diverse question types, QMP enables the integration of instant feedback, adaptive branching, and hyperlinks to learning materials. Assessments can be organized using topics and folders, with features like randomisation and secure environments to enhance reliability. Students can take assessments anytime on internet-enabled devices, and staff can access detailed reports, item analyses, and exportable data for custom insights.
QMP is a complex but powerful tool. It requires a significant investment - both staff resource and time - to use fully but can be used for everything from class tests to formal exams. Support is available from the Digital Learning team who provide consultancy, training and support to help you create questions, upload students and set up groups, deliver assessments, and report on results.
The online assessment lifecycle
Plan Your Assessment - Decide on the purpose, question types, and any feedback or time limits needed.
Create a Question Bank - Organise questions into topics and ensure variety in question types.
Design Your Assessment - Select questions, set time limits, and add feedback where appropriate.
Verify and Peer Review - Test the assessment thoroughly to ensure accuracy and usability.
Schedule the Assessment - Define start/end times, user access, and any required accommodations.
Deliver to Students - Notify students of the assessment details and provide access.
Generate Reports - Analyse performance and export results for further review.
Review and Revise - Update questions and content based on performance and feedback.
NB This process is valid for other tools including WAS and Moodle Quiz.
Questionmark Perception Help
QMP has detailed online guidance. You will need to sign up to access using your Warwick email address. The following guides cover some of the basics.
- Getting Started with AuthoringLink opens in a new window
- Creating topics (classic interface)
- Overview of question typesLink opens in a new window
- Adding questions to question blocksLink opens in a new window
- Creating an assessmentLink opens in a new window
- Making assessments accessibleLink opens in a new window
- ReportingLink opens in a new window
You can see our own summary guides below.
Planning and Designing Assessments
Delivering Assessments
Question Types
We recommend the use of the following question types. You can see a full list of questions here or on the QMP websiteLink opens in a new window.
Reviewing and Reporting
Why use QMP?
QMP offers a rich set of features
- Secure or open environment for your assessments
- Online authoring tool
- 20 different question types
- Topics and folders for organising your questions and assessments
- Default assessment types for simple error free assessment set-up (e.g. survey, quiz, exam)
- Easy selection and randomisation of questions
- Instant feedback to participants at item, topic and/or assessment levels
- Feedback can include hyperlinks to learning materials and web applications
- Adaptive assessment branching based on how questions are answered
- Online viewing of results, reports and item analysis
- Exporting answers for custom reporting
Benefits of using QMP
- Assessments that can be taken any time, from any internet-enabled device
- Instantaneous feedback and marking
- Sophisticated question types that can include images, video, audio, drag and drop etc
- Formative learning activities that can be repeatedly used by students for revision without additional workload on teaching staff
- The ability to track the performance of an individual student or a group of students.
FAQs
- What type of question design is available with QMP?
There are 20 different question types available - How can I access the results for my students?
Browser-based instant reporting offers secure access to twelve report types. - Is it possible to set a time limit for web-based sessions?
Yes, you may set up a time limit for the assessment or leave it unlimited. Also, tests can be scheduled automatically (for those registered on a module) and down to the second. - Is it possible to randomise questions for the session?
Yes, Perception allows you to create a question bank and select questions randomly for each student to minimise cheating. - Can I allow students to see the results immediately after the test?
Yes; results may be made available for students immediately after the submission of the test or may be sent to the lecturer electronically. Perception allows you to create feedback for correct and incorrect answers and gives your students the possibility of seeing it, helping their learning and understanding. - Is it possible to allocate students to the test?
Yes, students may be allocated to the session on a group basis or session may be created as 'open', so any student may have access to it.
List of guides
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Assessment review | Assessment review |
| Assessment Types | What's the difference between quizzes, tests, exams, and surveys? |
| Deliver assessment to students | How to deliver the assessment to the student audience |
| Drag and Drop question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create and edit a Drag and Drop question type. |
| Essay question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create an Essay question type. |
| Fill in the blanks question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create and edit a 'fill in the blanks' question. |
| Filtering Data for reports | Depending on report type data can be filtered by group, date, participant details, assessment results and status. |
| How to reset password manually | How to reset password manually when a participant has login issues. |
| How to unblock the users | How the users could be unblocked using the option Unblock user. |
| Introduction to Questionmark Perception (QMP) | Questionmark Perception is an online assessment, delivery and reporting tool available to all staff and students at Warwick. It can be used to create individual questions, which are brought together to form an exam, assessment, questionnaire or survey. |
| Knowledge matrix | How to create a Knowledge matrix question. |
| Matching question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to design a Matching question type. |
| Multiple choice question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create and edit a multiple choice question. |
| Multiple Response question (right/wrong) | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create and edit a multiple response question. |
| Multiple Response question (score per choice) | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create and edit a multiple response question. |
| Numeric question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to design a Numeric question. |
| Perception Lifecycle | Understand the eAssessment lifecycle when using Questionmark Perception including training, authoring, testing, reporting and review. |
| Plan your assessment | Plan your assessment |
| Pull-down list question | Watch a short video demonstrating how to design and edit a 'pull-down list' question type. |
| QMP Reports | Introduction to QMP reporting. |
| Question types | Due to the nature of online assessments, there is a wider variety of question types available compared to paper-based exams. This gives you as teaching staff more freedom in finding the most suitable question type for your subject matter. |
| Schedule an assessment | Contact the eAssessment team and provide information to schedule an assessment. |
| Select a blank question | How to Create a Select a blank question type. |
| Set up an assessment | Watch a short video demonstrating how to create a new Assessment. |
| Verification / Peer review | Verification / Peer review |
| Working with questions and questionbanks | Working with questions and questionbanks |