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Item page

See an item as a candidate would, try it, and read its metadata and results.

For authors

Every item has its own page, opened from its row on Resources. The buttons at the top act on the item; the tabs below show it.

Preview

The item drawn exactly as delivery draws it. Answer it, then press End Attempt (on items that have one) to have AIB score your answer: the outcomes it set, such as SCORE, are listed under the item. Nothing is recorded.

  • Show Answer adds a note after each interaction naming its correct response, and outlines the correct choices. Your answer is untouched, so End Attempt still scores what you chose.
  • Show Feedback appears on items with feedback. Ticked, End Attempt shows the feedback your answer earns; unticked, the item stays as first shown.

Both boxes are remembered for your account. On an item with random values (a template item), each view draws new values, and Show Answer and End Attempt use the ones shown.

Edit

Edit turns the Preview into the item editor. See The item editor. The button explains itself when editing is not possible:

  • Locked: a locked test uses this item. Editing it would change a test already in use.
  • Edit draft: you have unsaved changes from before. They open where you left them.
  • Override draft: someone else has a draft open. Taking it over discards their changes.
  • QTI 2.x items can be viewed and scored but not edited.

Duplicate

Duplicate copies the item, with its media references and answer key, under a new title and identifier, and opens the copy in the editor. The copy records what it was based on, shown on its Metadata tab. Duplicating is the way to change an item that is locked.

Delete

Delete removes the item and all its versions. It is refused while a test or section uses the item, or a draft is open; the message lists each one. See Deleting a resource.

Export

Export › QTI package makes a QTI 3.0.1 package of this item and everything it needs: its stimuli and media. The package is built in the background and listed on Exports.

View Source

</> opens the item’s QTI XML in a new tab, laid out and coloured, with every element and attribute name linked to its definition in the QTI standard. Copy XML copies it. The drop-down’s Raw XML gives the file itself, which opens and validates in an XML editor.

Metadata

The item’s descriptive records: title, subject, standards, difficulty and whatever your tenant’s metadata profile asks for. Press Edit on a record to change it. Fields marked as derived can be filled in from the content with Refresh from content, which shows the changes before applying them. Records belong to the item’s identifier, so every version shares them.

The Attributes card lists the item’s own settings (title, adaptive, time-dependent, language) and warns when they disagree with its scoring. The Lineage card shows what the item was duplicated from, and any copies made from it.

Usage

Appears in tests lists the tests that use the item. Response statistics counts the submitted attempts that answered it: how many were correct, how many incorrect, and the percentage correct. Results are for the whole tenant; no candidate is named.