What's new in ToetsTester

Until now ToetsTester could only assess text, which meant questions asking students to draw something stayed manual work. In the correction model editor you can now pick the "Image answer" question type and upload a reference image of the expected answer. Your assessment criteria and maximum score still count, and the image is added as extra guidance.

While grading, ToetsTester locates the drawn answer on the scanned page and compares it with your reference image. As long as that is running you can see which question is still being assessed; the grade only appears once everything is done. Sometimes it does not work out, for example when the answer could not be found on the page. That single question is then clearly marked as "manual review needed", along with the reason. The rest of the assessment is graded as usual and you only fill in those points yourself.

Your work revolves around the assessment, and that is now reflected in the app. Your dashboard has a "Recent assessments" section you can search through and collapse or expand with one click — just like your recent classes. From there you open an assessment in its own overview, showing the student portals that belong to it and how grading is progressing. You can edit an assessment title right on that page, separately from the correction model title.

When grading scanned assessments you no longer have to hunt through the PDF yourself. As you scroll through the questions, the document follows along to the matching student answer. You can also click a question number to jump straight to that answer in the PDF.

You switch this automatic navigation on or off in the settings menu with the "Automatically scroll" option. It becomes available once the answer positions in the PDF are known.

Until now ToetsTester calculated grades with a fixed N-term formula. From now on you decide which norm best fits your assessment.

You can choose from six methods: points per grade point (counting correct answers), points per mistake, steering towards a target class average, the classic N-term, an N-term with a cutoff, and a score table where you link a grade to each range of points yourself. As you adjust the settings you immediately see the effect on the grades and the class average.