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Add a Multiple Select Question

Online Documentation ANGEL 7.2 > Lessons Tab > Add a Multiple Select Question

To add a multiple select question, do the following:

Field Name

Description

Question Title

Provides the title of the question.

Points

Provides a point value for the question.

Grading

Sets how a question is graded:

  • Normal: Grading is based on sum of the point values assigned to each correct choice selected by the student. Students are automatically penalized for selecting incorrect answers, but the final score for the question cannot be less than 0 points.
  • All or nothing: The student is given full credit for an exactly correct answer. Partially correct answers are given a zero for the question.

Question Text

Type the question text in the Question Text field. Optionally enter question prompt text (i.e. extra text such as a hint or background information that displays with the question text) or footer text (displays following the last question choice). Click the HTML Editor hyperlink to insert images, apply formatting to the question text, etc.

Answer Choices

Provides possible answers for each question. The correct answer is designated by clicking the Correct radio button. Select the ‘view advanced options’ checkbox and type a percentage in the appropriate % fields (denoting percentage of points possible assigned to the partially correct choice) to assign partial credit to partially correct choices. Negative percentages can specified for incorrect answers, but the final score for the question cannot be less than 0 points.

Enter feedback for answer options

When selected, feedback fields are displayed for each answer choice allowing the editor to provide unique feedback based on the choice selected by the student.

More answer choices

Allows the editor to add additional answer choices to the question.

Feedback

Allows the editor to provide unique feedback based on whether the student provides a correct or incorrect answer.

Keywords

Allows the editor to associate new or existing keywords with the question. When used in conjunction with the ‘Add to question bank’ option below, the resulting question can be easily searched for and added to other assessments based on the keywords.

Difficulty

When selected, the course editor can assign a difficulty level to the question (very easy, easy, average, difficult and very difficult). When used in conjunction with the ‘Add to question bank’ option below, the resulting question can be easily searched for and added to other assessments based on the difficulty setting.

Answer labels

Sets the type of label to display for your answer choice. Options include alpha listing with A), a) or 1) and by drop down list.

Maximum possible selections

The maximum number of answers students may select

Add to question bank

Adds the current question to the Question Bank Manager for the course.
For more information regarding managing question bank questions, see the section of this document titled Question Bank Manager.

Update all instances of this question in this course

When selected, changes to the question will be to all instances of the question being used in the course.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied or re-used at least once within the same course.

Automatically accept changes made to this question from the master source

When selected, changes made to the source question (located in a different course or repository) will be automatically applied to the copy of the question being used in this course.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied from a different course or repository.

Add another

Select a question type from the dropdown menu and click the Add question button to save the current question and add another question without returning to the Add Question screen.



 

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