Learning library
How to use the Assessment Item Bank, screen by screen and task by task.
The Assessment Item Bank (AIB) is where your organisation keeps its assessment content: the questions (items), the passages and images they share (stimuli and media), and the sections and tests that put them together for candidates. Everything is stored as QTI 3.0, the open standard for assessment content, so it can be exported to, and imported from, other QTI systems.
Look for the icon on AIB’s screens. It opens the part of this library that explains what you are looking at.
Start here
If you write content (authors):
- Creating an item walks through a question from a blank starter to a scored, saved item.
- Building a test puts items into sections and a test, and checks how it will be delivered.
- Importing a QTI package brings in content made elsewhere.
- Interaction types describes every kind of question AIB can deliver, each with a working sample to try.
If you look after a tenant (tenant admins): read Tenant Admin first. It covers members and roles, the starter files your authors create from, and the standards the editors follow.
Words used in this library
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tenant | A separate bank of content, with its own members. Most screens have a Tenant picker. |
| Item | One assessment item: a question or a group of questions, with its answer key and scoring. |
| Interaction | The part of an item a candidate answers: choices, a text box, a drag and drop, and so on. Each interaction is one question. |
| Stimulus | A passage, picture or other material that several items share. |
| Media | An image, audio or video file, PDF or stylesheet that items, stimuli and tests use. |
| Section | A group of items (and other sections) that can be reused in tests. |
| Test | What a candidate sits: parts, sections and items, with the rules for delivering them. |
| Starter file | A template that the Create menu copies to make a new resource. |
| Draft | Your working copy while you edit. Nobody else sees it until you Save. |
| Candidate | The person taking a test. |
Roles
What you can do depends on your role in a tenant:
- Tenant admins manage the tenant: its members, settings, starter files and standards.
- Authors create, edit, import, export and delete resources.
- Reviewers read everything in the tenant and can try items and tests.
- Test takers sit the tests they are given.