ANGEL Help

Field Name

Description

Question Title

Provides the title of the question.

Points

Provides a point value 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 length

Sets the length (in rows) for the answer box.

Correct answer

Enter the correct answer or the elements that compose a correct answer.
Note: Because essay questions must be manually graded, the Correct answer field serves a similar purpose as the feedback field – to provide the correct answer, a grading rubric, or feedback regarding the criteria to receive a good grade on 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.

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.