The item editor
Editing an item or stimulus in place: the canvas, the menus, the properties panel and scoring.
Press Edit on an item’s or a stimulus’s page to edit it where it is shown. The editor has three parts: a toolbar, the canvas (the item, drawn as a candidate sees it) and the properties panel for whatever is selected.
Everything you do is kept in a draft. Nobody else sees it until you Save.
The toolbar
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Question | Adds a choice question with one answer or several, already scored, or a Likert scale. |
| Insert | Adds an element where the selection is: an interaction, a paragraph, a list, a table, an image, feedback. Only what is allowed there is offered. Interactions are listed by name (Choice Interaction); other elements by their QTI name. |
| Stimuli | Ticks the shared stimuli this item uses. (Items only.) |
| B, I, x², x₂, T | Bold, italic, superscript, subscript, clear formatting, while you type. |
| Inline | Puts something in the text you are typing; see Inline elements. |
| Item properties | Selects the item itself: its title, adaptive and time-dependent settings, and its stylesheets. |
| Add modal feedback | Adds a feedback message shown after the item. |
| Check | Validates the draft against QTI 3.0 and lists the problems, without saving. |
| Save | Validates and stores the item, then closes the editor. |
| Close | Closes the editor and keeps the draft for later. |
| Discard | Throws the draft away. |
Selecting and typing
Click anything on the canvas to select it. A tag beside the canvas names the selected element; its ↑ selects the element around it. Clicking in text starts typing where you clicked.
Keyboard: Alt+arrow keys move the selection between elements, Enter starts typing in the selected text, and Escape stops.
Inline elements
While you are typing, the Inline menu offers what can go in the text: a link, an abbreviation, emphasis, an image, a line break, or a question in the text (a text entry box, an inline choice or a gap). Select some words first to wrap them, or put the caret where the new element goes. AIB asks for anything the element needs, such as a link’s address.
The properties panel
The panel shows the selected element’s settings, from its schema: required ones first, then Advanced. Change a value and it is applied at once. The panel also carries actions for the element, such as Add choice, Delete question or Delete.
- An identifier that has been saved is read-only: statistics are gathered on it.
- The class field offers the QTI style classes that suit the element, best matches first, as your tenant has configured them.
- Data attributes are your organisation’s own labels (
data-topic, for example). The values offered come from your tenant’s dictionary and what the bank already uses. - A file address (an image, audio, a stylesheet) has Choose…, which opens the media picker.
Scoring
Select an interaction and its panel opens on Scoring (the Properties tab beside it has its attributes). Each question has one scoring recipe:
- Exact match: the correct response earns the Points.
- Accepted answers: several answers, tried in order; the first that matches scores. One of them can stand for the correct response.
- Mapped (points per answer): each answer given earns its points, added up, optionally with a lower and upper limit.
- Not scored: the question adds nothing, for example when a person marks it.
Optional arms set what No answer scores and what Anything else scores. For typed answers, Answer type chooses text, whole number or number; numbers can be compared within a tolerance or rounded, and text can be Case-sensitive or not.
Select the item body to see the item’s Scoring: how its questions add up into SCORE, each
with a Weight, and an optional floor and offset.
An item whose scoring was written by hand and fits no recipe shows it as Its own rule (kept as written). It keeps working. Replace with recipes rewrites it as recipes you can edit here.
Moving things
Drag the selected element by its tag to move it; a line shows where it will land, and only allowed places are offered. Alt+Shift+↑/↓ moves it past its neighbour. Undo move (or Ctrl+Z) puts back the last move.
A choice cannot be moved out of its interaction, because the answer key names it.
Shared stimuli
On an item, the Stimuli menu lists the tenant’s stimuli; tick one to use it. The stimuli pane beside the canvas shows each, with Place in body to show it at a chosen point in the item and Remove. A stimulus not placed is shown beside or around the item, as your tenant has set.
Saving and validation
Save checks the whole item against the QTI 3.0 schema and AIB’s rules, and refuses an invalid item. The problems are listed above the canvas; click one to select the element at fault. Your draft is kept, so nothing is lost.
AIB also refuses content that could run code in a candidate’s browser, such as scripts.
When you cannot edit
An item is locked while a locked test uses it, and a stimulus while such an item shows it. Duplicate it to make an editable copy. See Item page › Edit.