ANGEL Help

Description

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Type

The drop-down list provides an option to change the question type when in the question editor.

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Text

Provides an area for the question text.  How the text is formatted depends on the page format setting.

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Points

Allows you to assign points to each response

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Choices

Allows you to enter a list of choices or options to be provided when the question is presented.  Use the provided control to add or edit choices.  You can use the copy and paste controls to copy the list of choices and paste them into another question.  This prevents you from having to retype the choices for each item in a matching section or for survey questions that are using a common scale.

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General Feedback

Used to specify a comment that should be returned to the user when the user submits the test.  The feedback appears following the question.  This field can be used to increase the effectiveness of quizzes by providing additional information such as where the material is covered in the book.

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Image URL

Used if you would like an image to appear before the question.  To use, type the fully-qualified URL to the GIF or JPEG image in this field.  You can use this setting to include an image that you want to reference in a question or a series of questions.

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Feedback if Selected

Used to provide selective information to the user concerning the answer selected after submitting a quiz.  This may be used when several answers could be correct but one answer is better than then rest.  This provides an area to explain why one answer would be better than another.

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Never Scramble

Provides the option to not scramble the question answers.  This option overrides a quiz setting of “Scramble the order of choices on question” located on the Delivery tab.

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Keywords

Provides an area where you can add keywords that pertain to a question.  Setting keywords on a question allows it to be reused for additional quizzes based on a keyword selection.

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Difficulty

Provides an option to assign a difficulty level to a question (very easy, easy, average, difficult and very difficult).  This area is another tool that can be used when requesting a reusable question based on difficulty level.

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Advanced Options

Provides an interface for specifying advanced item settings.  The following options are currently available:

• EXACTMATCH=1 :Disables numeric rounding and “sounds like” algorithm.
• NOSOUNDSLIKE=1 :Disables the “sounds like”
• NOROND=1 :Disables numeric rounding
• MAXSEL=n :For use on Multiple Select questions.  Restricts the user to selecting n number of available choices
• FIELD_ATTRIBUTES= : Allows editor to specify HTML field attributes for the student response input field
• Multiple advanced options should be separated with a semi-colon (e.g. EXACTMATCH=1;FIELD_ATTRIBUTES=COLS=80;)
• CONTAINS: Auto-grades correctly with any text you use.  If any part of the user’s answer contains the specified text.
• MATCH: Auto-grades correctly if any part of the user’s answer matches the given regular repression. Example:  MATCH:[a-zA-Z0-9_] matches anything placed in a fill-in-the-blank question and automatically grade it as a correct answer as long as the answer is not blank.