Add an Offline Item
Online Documentation ANGEL 7.2 > Lessons Tab > Add an Offline Item
Offline items allow the instructor to add additional questions to an assessment that may be answered or turned in by means other than assessment submission. The student may be advised to upload their response to the assessment or a drop box, attach to course mail or by other means, including physically handing in the additional question/exercise.
To add an off-line item, do the following:
- Log into your ANGEL course and click the Lessons tab.
- Navigate to the assessment.
- Click the Add Question hyperlink.
- Click the Offline item hyperlink or icon (
).
- Complete the following fields:
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. |
Correct answer |
Enter the correct answer or the elements that compose a correct answer. |
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. |
Allow file uploads |
Allow users to upload files in response to this question |
Restrict file types |
Enter the file extensions of acceptable file types (e.g. .doc, .txt) separated by commas. Leave the field blank to accept all file types. |
Add to question bank |
Adds the current question to the Question Bank Manager for the course. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
For more information regarding managing question bank questions, see the section of this document titled Question Bank Manager.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied or re-used at least once within the same course.
This option will only appear if the question being edited has been copied from a different course or repository.- Click the Standards tab to map the question to one or more standards.
- Click the Objectives tab to map the question to one or more objectives.
- Click the Done button.
It is advisable to either leave the answer and feedback text fields blank if your assessment settings are set to provide immediate feedback to the student. Otherwise, the display of your grading criteria may provide the students with the answer before the student has the chance to complete the off-line item.
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