Step One: Design the Question
In the Design the Question area, you enter the text of the question and other basic details. Think of how you want the question to appear to your students and be as clear as possible.
The question label is used to identify the question within the Test Builder. It is not shown to students. If you do not enter a label, the system will generate a label based on the question text.
You use the Question Text field to create the question that will be shown to students. This field is required. It can include any combination of the following:
Text—You input this using the rich-text editor.
One or more images—To input images in the text editor, you can drag and drop them in, or you can click the Insert/edit image button
and then click the Add Image(s) button to select an image to upload. Images uploaded in this manner will appear below the text as a gallery of thumbnails that can be clicked to display the full-size image.An equation—To add an equation, use the Add equation link to open a LaTeX-format Equation Editor.
You can leave your images and equations in a gallery that will be displayed below any text you’ve entered, or you can drag them into the rich-text editor to resize them and arrange them alongside your text.
If you need additional help with images, click the link labeled How Do I Use Images. If you need help with the Equation Editor, note that after you open it, you can display instructions using the link labeled Show help text.
Note
If you want students to answer using the Equation Editor, make sure you select “equation” as this question’s answer type.
If you want to assign a point value to a question, enter it in the Point Value field.
Eventually, every question must have a point value before you will be allowed to mark the test as ready—but you don’t have to enter the value now.
If you do not see a Point Value field, that means that this question belongs to a question pool—all questions in the pool must have the same value, and you can set this when you edit the section.
If you want the question to be one that can only benefit the student, click the checkbox labeled Make this question extra credit.
When you do this, the point value for the question is not added to the total for the test. This means the student will not be penalized for skipping or missing the question.
To help you keep track of which questions you have designated as extra credit, the system adds an extra-credit icon next to the corresponding questions in the main Test Builder view. It also makes a notation about the section’s total extra-credit point value.
When they take the test, students will be able to easily see which questions are extra credit.