Möbius Exams
Ans is now TUDelfts’ main assessment system for all basic assessments. In the first half of 2023, most question banks from Mobius were migrated to Ans. If you have any questions about migrating your content or your already migrated material, please contact Teaching Support (for formative assessment) and Exam Support (for summative assessment).
We are here to help make the process to Ans as smooth as possible. For more information about Ans, please visit our Ans page.
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This page focusses on summative testing. For more information about formative testing using Möbius, please follow this link.
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For summative testing Möbius offers the following types of Exams:
- Proctored exams are exams that are written in a secure environment in a computer room on campus, where students are monitored by invigilators. The Exam server of Möbius is used for these types of exams when on campus exams are allowed again.
- Online proctored exams are exams that are written at home where the audio, video and screen of the student is recorded and later reviewed to see if any fraud has been committed. The Online -Exam server of Möbius is used for these types of exams. Möbius uses RPnow as an online proctoring agency. Watch this short video to see how RPnow works. This video represents the process until 2:38, then the video switches to “Canvas” where TU Delft students will be redirected to Möbius.
- Unproctored or online exams are exams without any proctoring. The Online-Exam server of Möbius is used for these types of exams.
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The Exam support (ExamSupport@tudelft.nl.) can help you with:
- Advising and supporting you on the process of administering a digital exam in Ans.
- Setting up the final policies on your digital exam.
- Adding your students to your Ans course.
- Monitoring the course of events during open book or digital exams scheduled in a secure environment.
- Solving technical problems during exams in cooperation with the functional application manager.
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Möbius is only supported in Chrome and Safari. If you have trouble using Möbius, please make sure you are using one of the supported browsers before contacting Teaching & Learning Support.
Firefox, for example, is no longer used for testing and development. This means Möbius will still work with Firefox for now but it is not guaranteed to stay that way going forward.
Work with Möbius
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If you want to make use of Möbius, the Digital Exams Desk will create 2 classes for you on the Möbius online-exam server. A Question Bank (also known as the Parent) and a Year Class (also known as the Child):
- Question Bank (parent class):
e.g. ‘IO2070-18 Design for Sustainability – Question Bank’ - Year Class (child class):
e.g. ‘IO2070 Design for Sustainability – 2019-2020’
To keep it organized we advise you to create and manage your Questions in the Question Bank (parent class) and manage the Assignments in the Year Class (child class). The questions you create in the Question Bank will then automatically appear the Year Class of this year but also in the Year Classes of the coming years. This way you can reuse questions each year. Digitalexams will create Assignments in your Year Class when they create the class, so that you can insert your questions and edit it to your liking, while they already set up the policies needed for the exam.
- Question Bank (parent class):
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DigitalEd – the developer of Möbius – has made many videos on:
- Question creation
- Authoring Assignments
- Gradebook
You can find the videos on the website of DigitalEd by clicking on this link, you will have to scroll down. Beware that TU Delft does not support the courseware functionalities (Lessons, Slideshows) of Möbius as we have Brightspace for this.
Beware that TU Delft does not support the courseware functionalities (Lessons, Slideshows) of Möbius as we have Brightspace for this.
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- Always use Notepad if you want to paste text into Möbius while creating questions. Notepad removes all unnecessary codes.
- After moving, importing or adding questions. Click on F5 to refresh the screen. This applies to more actions in Möbius.
- It is not possible to copy/paste an image from a word document. You will need to upload the image via the image button in the edit menu of the question.
Important to know when editing/creating questions
- Do not open Möbius in multiple tabs. Because you can be logged out of one tab (timeout for inactivity), while the other tab looks fine – but then when you save work in the other tab, it doesn’t get saved because your global session is logged out. Information can also get crossed over and the data can get corrupted between tabs/ sessions.
Checklist for question settings:
- Are the number of points per question correctly assigned?
- Check sub questions as well!
- Do all questions have an option to answer the question?
- E.g. a text box in case of open questions and options in case of multiple choice questions?
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- Are all questions suitable for Möbius? E.g. no design questions?
- If possible, refrain from using multiple select questions.
Students are punished harder for incorrectly not checking a box, than for incorrectly checking a box. - Did you check for asking the same question twice in a single exam?
- In case of a resit: are the question types the same as in the regular exam?
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- Did you implement parametrization in order to give students unique exams?
- In the case of multiple-choice questions, is Möbius set to present each student with a random question from a question pool of similar questions?
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Follow the steps below to grade the Assignment:
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- Login to Möbius and go to the Year Class.
- Click on Gradebook and choose Class Grades in the menu bar.
- Select the Assignment(s) you want to view or review.
- At Filter Results, choose the Filters:
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- List: Students with grades.
- Results: All (Best).
- Progress: All.
- Select which data you want to see presented in the results list in the View Panel.
- Make sure you adjust the number of Rows to the number of students that may have taken the test.
We advise you not to select too many rows as the system will slow down.
- If this is done, hit the Search button.
- All students who have taken the test will be shown with their final scores:
- Click on the title of the test to see the Manually grade this activity button.
- Click on the Manually grade this activity button.
- You will now see this overview:
- A question/answer that is graded is green, a question/answer that is not graded is purple.
- Select this box if you want to give all students the same grade.
- Click on a row to see the question/answer on the right.
- Click on the edit-grade-icon to edit a grade and click on the floppy-disc-icon to save the grade.
Use a decimal point, not a comma.
If you want to grant zero points, please enter a zero (0) and save. If you enter nothing then the system will regard the answer as Part Ungraded.
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In Möbius it’s possible to Regrade your exam when you have made a mistake in the answering model. There are however some limitations:
- You can only change the response area. Changing what is asked in the question or swapping out images will not work.
- When changing answers in Matching, Multiple Choice, Sorting and Clickable image questions, you can only change which answer is the correct answer. It does not work to change the content of the answers.
Example: If a Multiple Choice question with options a,b,c where b is correct is changed to a,c,b where now c is correct. The students that originally answered b (index 2) will still be considered as having the correct answer when regraded. - You cannot change existing algorithm variables. Changes in existing algorithm variables will not be recognized. The original state of the algorithm is used upon Regrading.
Follow the steps below to Regrade a question:
- Login to Möbius and go to the Question Bank Class.
- Click on content Content Repository in the top-menu.
- Click on Questions and open the question that you want to change.
- Change the response area in your question.
- After saving the correct answer, go back to home and click on the Year Class.
- Click on Gradebook and choose Class Grades in the menu-bar.
- Select the Assignment(s) you want to view or review Möbius.
- Select the Filters:
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- List: Students with grades
- Results All (Best)
- Progress: All
- Select the data that you want to see presented in the results list.
- Make sure you adjust the number of Rows to the number of students that may have taken the test.
We advise you not to select too many rows as the system will slow down.
- Click on the Search button.
- You will see a list of all the students.
- Click on the grade of one student.
- Scroll to the question you have changed (in this case Q3) and click on the regrade button.
- Now you will see an overview of what the new grade does in the column New Grade.
- If you want to save this change: select all students
- Click on Submit Grades, you have 2 options here:
- Submit Selected Grades: Regrade all students.
- Submit Selected Increased Grades: Only regrade students that will receive a better grade.
- If it is a large amount of students you want to change, the job will take longer and will be placed in the Gradebook under Regrade Jobs.
- This is an easy way to return to the job and see if it has been processed: click on Return.
- And you’ll see the result again.
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You can export results of a test to a CSV document.
- Go to Gradebook and click on Class Grades.
- Select Assignments, make your selection and select Search
- Click Export to CSV.
Make sure to adjust the number of Rows to the number of students.
- Open the CSV in Excel en select the first column, select the Data-tab on the Ribbon in Excel and click on Text to Columns.
- Select Delimited in Step 1 of the Wizard and click Next.
- Select Comma for Delimiters and none for Text qualifier and click Next.
- Click Finish in Step 3 of the Wizard.
- The result:
- To generate a grade you must translate the final score to a grade yourself.
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