From Remindo to Ans
Starting in the 2024-2025 academic year, the entire university will use testing platform Ans for digital testing. For the Faculty of Social Sciences, this means a transition from Remindo to Ans.
The FSW project team is working with the university project team to ensure a smooth transition from Remindo to Ans - with as little extra work as possible for our lecturers. On this page we will keep you updated on the transition to Ans and what this means for you as a faculty member.
Migration activities and your role
The faculty’s Digital Testing team (DT-team) will migrate the questions. To ensure that the desired questions are transferred in the correct version we informed the course coordinators on the following points:
- Only approved questions will be transferred to Ans. Questions in Remindo with a status other than ‘approved’ will not be included in the migration.
- To learn how to change a question’s status to ‘approved’, please see Changing the status of a question.
- Quality check before migration. Psychometric data will not be transferred from Remindo to Ans. Therefore, we strongly advise you to check the quality of your questions – and consequently your question bank – based on the psychometric data before the migration. See the migration schedule below to discover until when you perform this check for your question bank(s).
- Guidelines for evaluating exam questions in Remindo can be found in the attached Guide to item analysis for FSW examiners.
- The faculty offers lunch workshops to support this quality check before the migration to Ans. More information and registration.
- Cleaning up question banks. The migration offers the chance to start with a freshly-organised question bank in Ans. This will need some cleaning activity in the current question banks. The biggest focal point here should be deduplicating questions that have been entered multiple times in the past years of intensive Remindo use. The DT-team will send you an overview of all the questions in your question bank in an Excel document. Following the instructions provided, you will indicate which questions should not be transferred. See the migration schedule below to discover when you will receive the question overview for your course(s) and by which date your reaction is needed to be processed in Ans.
Migration schedule
The migration of the exam questions will be executed in stages and is roughly divided between semester 1 and semester 2 courses. The schedule below contains the most important dates for course coordinators.
- 22 April: you will receive information and instruction regarding the cleaning up of the questions.
- 31 May: deadline for you as course coordinator: quality check in Remindo & send reaction to cleaning of the question bank to the DT-team.
- 1 June: the DT-team will start exporting questions from Remindo, no more changes possible.
- 30 August: import in Ans finished, any needed corrections and cleaning actions carried out by the DT-team.
- 2 September: you can access your new question bank in Ans!
- 31 July: deadline for you as course coordinator: quality check in Remindo & send reaction on cleaning up of the question bank to the DT-team.
- 1 August: the DT-team will start exporting questions from Remindo, no more changes possible.
- 16 September: you will receive information and instruction regarding the cleaning up of the questions.
- 1 November: deadline for you as course coordinator: send reaction to cleaning of the question bank to the DT-team.
- 29 November: import in Ans finished, any needed corrections and cleaning actions carried out by the DT-team.
- 2 December: you can access your new question bank in Ans!