Oral Assessment Builder (OAB) Training
The Oral Assessment Builder enables a tutor to create, manage, assign and grade vocal assessments through the Voice Tools Server. The Oral Assessment Builder is not a fully featured assessment engine, though it does focus on the vocal interaction between the tutor and a Student. Wimba assessments are most often used in second and foreign-language courses, but also have applications wherever oral communication competencies need to be assessed.
Your Voice Tools Server administrator will need to create user accounts in the Voice Tools Server for each of your students and put them into groups before you can assign assessments to them.
Question Types
The Oral Assessment Builder offers five types of questions:
Voice Dialog. This question type simply has a question to which the student must respond. It's a standard free-response question, but oral instead of written
Fill in the Blank. This question type is based upon a Voice Dialog, so it includes everything found in that type of question. Additionally, it includes one or more sentences with blanks that students must fill in.
Multiple Choice Question. This question type is similar to a Voice Dialog, but with the addition of multiple choice questions (MCQs). The question can include as many MCQs as you like.
Vocal Multiple Choice Question. This question type is like a multiple choice question, but the student must choose between several vocal answers rather than textual answers.
Pairing Question. This question type is similar to a multiple choice question, but with multiple questions and answers, each answer corresponding to a single question. The student must match each question with its corresponding answer.
Exercise - Take an Assessment!
- The tutor has set up a OAB Assessment Activity - information will be given during the session
- Please take the assessment in order to gain an understanding of the available question types.
