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 student’s 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
Take Exam
Submit It
Automatically
Scored
View
Feedback
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PT Practice SBA Exam
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PT Practice SBA Exam
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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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Zkušenosti
 Windows & Linux supported
 32bit and 64bit
 IE8, Opera, (Chrome), Firefox ….
 Verze PT & Java
 Padání PT – možnost uložení/pokračování
 Zpětné nahrání výsledku
 Malá/velká písmena
 Řešení „na víc“
 Průběžné výsledky
 Jedna verze
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