Cisco Packet Tracer

Skills Assessments
Overview

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Cisco Packet Tracer

Skills Assessments

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Students Learn By Doing

Networking Academy uses teaching and assessment methods that
help students develop the skills needed to succeed in the
classroom and on the job
We emphasize the hands-on, e-doing aspect of learning to reenforce skills
Cisco Packet Tracer Skills Assessments help students gain
confidence that they can actually perform the tasks they have
learned in their courses

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Packet Tracer Skills Assessments

Innovative New Assessment Offering
Authentic tasks, complex and performance based
Rich, immediate feedback
Online, centrally administered environment
Automatically scored and integrated with gradebook
Students practice in familiar simulation environment
Measures performance in addition to knowledge
Allows simultaneous testing for large numbers of
students
Practice without accessing real equipment
Helps instill confidence in mastery of learned skills
21st century assessment integrated with networking
technology curriculum

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Packet Tracer
Practice SBAs

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Practice Assessments for CCNA Courses

PT Practice Skills Based Assessments (SBAs)
are the first Packet Tracer Skills Assessments
available
Each CCNA course has a final hands-on skills
exam
Administered on real equipment in person, or on remotelyaccessed equipment
Assess ability to apply knowledge and perform real skills to
succeed in the workforce

PT Practice SBAs provide a technology-based

solution to practice for the final hands-on exam
Available for all CCNA Discovery & CCNA Exploration
courses
Help indicate a students readiness for final hands-on exam

Note: PT Practice SBAs were designed to practice for the final

summative skills exams on real equipment, not to replace
them
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Benefits of Packet Tracer Practice SBAs

Provide students with a way to
assess their performance and
knowledge of networking concepts
and skills
Assessment environment presents
complex and authentic tasks,
immediately scores the exams,
and provides rich, detailed feedback
integrated with the gradebook
Helps students and instructors
identify areas that need
improvement to increase student
confidence, satisfaction, and
success when preparing for the final
hands-on skills exam

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PT Practice SBA Exam Experience

Launch

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Take Exam

Submit It

Automatically
Scored

View
Feedback

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PT Practice SBA Exam

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PT Practice SBA Detailed Feedback

Helps Students Identify Areas for Improvement
Proficiency Estimates

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Detailed Scoring Feedback

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PT Practice SBA Feedback

Additional Feedback for Instructors
Access Student Work Product

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Time Stamped Student Log

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PT Practice SBA Feedback

Additional Feedback for Instructors

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PT Practice SBA Feedback

Additional Feedback for Instructors
View Activity

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View Proposed Solution

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Administration, Resources
and Support

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Activating a PT Practice SBA

Instructors activate an exam from the course Assessment Home
page using the normal assessment activation process
Use the default activation settings or modify as needed

Default Value
Login Period

Number of
Exam Attempts

Exam Duration

Comments

1 hour

Can be increased up to 14 days

20 exam attempts

Allows students to take exam as

many times as needed to gain
proficiency

2 hours

Can be adjusted up or down as

needed up to a maximum of 10
hours

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Software Requirements
Required! Packet Tracer 5.2.1 or above & Java 1.6 or above
We recommend using the latest version of Packet Tracer
Log in to Academy Connection
Click the Packet Tracer image on the left side of your Home Page

Select Software Downloads then choose the appropriate download option

To obtain the latest Java version

Download from www.java.com

To verify that your local computer has required software

Click the PT Skills Assessment Environment Checker on your class home
page
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Instructor Support Available

Instructors should report issues, errors,
or bugs through the Curriculum and Assessment
Quality Support site
To access this site, log in to Academy Connection
and click Help at the top of the page, then select
Curriculum and Assessment Quality Support
Select the Contact Curriculum Team tab, provide
as much detail as possible, and then click Submit

To collaborate with other instructors, join

the Cisco Packet Tracer Skills Assessments
community discussion
To access the discussion board, log in to Academy
Connection and click Forums & Chat under
Resources, then select Instructor Community >
Online Assessment > Cisco Packet Tracer
Skills Assessments

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Zkuenosti
Windows & Linux supported
32bit and 64bit
IE8, Opera, (Chrome), Firefox .
Verze PT & Java
Padn PT monost uloen/pokraovn
Zptn nahrn vsledku
Mal/velk psmena
een na vc
Prbn vsledky
Jedna verze

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