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Test and section pages

The structure of a test or section, what one delivery comes to, and how candidates did.

For authors

Tests and sections share one page design. Open either from its row on Resources. At the top: Edit, Export, Launch and View Source; below, four tabs.

Structure

The test drawn as a tree: test parts, sections and the items they refer to, in the order they are written. Each item links to its page. Pills and notes say what changes delivery:

  • selects 3 of 10: each candidate gets only some of a section’s children.
  • shuffled: the children are given in a random order. fixed children keep their place.
  • not delivered: a reference to a separately stored section. Delivery does not follow these yet, so its items are not given to candidates and are left out of every count.
  • not found: an item reference that leads nowhere. Delivery would fail to find it too.
  • Time limits, branch rules and preconditions, where the test has them.

The tree always shows every child in document order; the pills say when a candidate will not meet it that way.

Summary

Figures for one delivery: how many items a candidate is given and the maximum score. When selection or branching means it varies, a range is shown (3–7) with a banner saying why.

Metadata

Descriptive records and the Attributes and Lineage cards, as on the item page.

Usage

How many attempts there have been and, for each question, how many candidates were given it, how many answered, and the average score. Scores are those awarded when each attempt was submitted. Results are for the whole tenant; no candidate is named. On a busy test the averages may be taken from a sample, and the tab says so.

Launch

Launch opens the test as a candidate meets it, so you can sit it yourself. It is disabled, with the reason in its tooltip, when delivery would refuse the test: an impossible selection, an invalid time limit, or a rule AIB cannot follow.

Export

  • QTI package: the test and everything it reaches (sections, items, stimuli, media), as a QTI 3.0.1 package. See Exports.

Sections on their own

A section page is the same, without Launch’s test parts. A separately stored section can be referred to from tests, but see the not delivered note above.