An R-Type Items consists of a rich text passage known as Lead-In and a set of Answer Options that are shared by all the items included in the R-Type items. Questions Stems for an R-type item can be submitted either from already available R-Type items or by creating new R-Type Question Stems.
Create R-Type items
- Select the Develop Questions → Write Item menu.
- Click the Write Question link.
On the Write Question page, select Shared Option List (R-Type) from the Question Type drop-down list.
The screen appears very similar to the MCQ type of items.
- Enter the Lead-in text for the R-Type item. The Lead-in text relates to each of the items in the R-Type item.
- Enter the Answer Options in the Rich Text editor in the Options tab. The Options are the answers that can be selected for each of the items on the Stems tab.
- You can use the automatically populate the R-Type options group list via template that is saved in the R-Type Options setting of the project Configuration.
- Click the drop-down list in front of Select template options group in the Options tab and select one of the saved templates.
Click the Populate Options List button to automatically populate the options list with options saved in the selected template. This only pulls data from the templates. You can modify the data to suit your requirements.
- Enter the Lead-in text for the R-Type item. The Lead-in text relates to each of the items in the R-Type item.
You can add additional Answer Options by clicking the
Add Distractor icon. If you wish to remove an Answer Option, then you can do so by clicking the
Remove Distractor icon next to it.
The minimum number of Answer Options is 2.You can select the check box next to Custom Option Label if you wish to specify your own custom label(s) for the Answer Options.
You can use the corresponding arrow
Move Up and Move Down icons on the right to manually reorder the Options as required.
Now click the Stems tab. You can enter the Question Stem in the Rich Text editor.
Select the correct Answer Option for this Question Stem from the Correct option drop-down list. The selected Option text is displayed in the Correct option text.
You can also add Question Stems previously created in other R-Type items by clicking the Search for Stems button to add Question Stems present in previously written R-Type items. A pop-up window with controls to search and retrieve opens. You are only adding the questions to your R-Type item. You must provide the correct answer to these items in the Options tab of your R-Type item.
Retrieve Questions button. You can then select the Question Stems to be added to the R-Type item by selecting the check boxes corresponding to the item listed in the search result, and click the Add Question Stem button to add them to the R-Type item. In case a selected R-Type item in the search result has more than one Question Stem, then all the Question Stems from that item are added to the R-Type item being created.You can add additional Question Stems by clicking the
Add New Stem icon. If you wish to remove a Question Stem, then click the
Remove Stem icon next to it.
The minimum number of Question Stems is 1.- If you have more than one Question Stem, then click the corresponding arrow on the right to reorder the Question Stem with reference to the ones before or after it. There is no confirmation message upon clicking the arrows and the Question Stems are immediately reordered.
Blueprint, references, comments, and metadata can be specified as mentioned in other Item types.
After entering all the data for the item, you can click on one of the below buttons:
- Click the Add Question to Case button save the item and create a new case. The item is automatically attached to the case. Only users with permission to create cases will see this button.
- Click the Save button. The item is saved and the item is checked-out preventing other users from making edits to the item. You remain on the Write Question page where further edits can be made to the item.
- Click the Preview button. Changes to the item are saved, the item is checked-out, and the item is opened in the Preview window. Only users with permission to preview items will see this button.
- To save an incomplete item, click Save and Exit. The item is saved in a Draft state and checked-in so any users with access to the item may make edits to the item. It is visible in the Draft/Returned Questions tab of the Project Writing Summary page.
- To submit the item for review, click Submit. The item is saved and checked-in so any users with access to the item may make edits to the item. The item is advanced to the next reviewer in the list or to the next stage in the workflow.