Add/Modify Questions –Essay Question

 

Overview

After selecting the Essay question type on the Test Canvas the Add/Modify Essay Question page appears. Essay questions require the Instructor to provide Students with a question or statement. Students are given the opportunity to type and/or cut and paste an answer into a text field. Sample answers can be added for users or graders to use as a reference. These types of questions must be graded manually on the Grade Assessment page. Essay questions may use the Math and Science Notation Tool.

 

Note: Survey questions cannot be assigned a point value, keywords or to a category.

 

Add / Modify Essay Question

 

Find this page

Follow the steps below to open the Add/Modify Essay Question page.

 

Step 1                 Select Test Manager in the Assessment area of the Course Control Panel.

 

Step 2                 Click Modify next to an existing Test.

 

OR

 

Step 1                 Select Add Test, complete the Add Test page and select Submit.

 

Step 2                 Select Essay in the Add Question: drop-down list and click Go.

 

Fields

The table below details the fields on this page.

 

Field

Description

Essay Question

Question text: [r]

Enter the question, as it is to appear on the Assessment.

·          Smart Text: Automatically recognizes a link entered in the text box. Smart text recognizes the ENTER key as a paragraph tag and accepts HTML tags as well.

·          Plain Text: Displays text as written.

·          HTML: Displays text as coded using HTML tags.

·          ∑: Opens the MathML Equation Editor.

·          +: Opens the WebEQ Equation Editor.

Click Preview to view the text as it will appear.

Point Value: [r]

Enter the point value for this question.

File:

Click Browse to select a file to attach to the question.

Action:

Select an action for the attached file in the drop-down list:

·          Create a link to the file

·          Display the media file within the page

URL:

Enter a URL to include with the question.

Title:

Enter a title for the URL as it should appear on the Test.

Answer

Answer

Enter an example of an answer. Students will be able to view this sample.

·          Smart Text: Automatically recognizes a link entered in the text box. Smart text recognizes the ENTER key as a paragraph tag and accepts HTML tags as well.

·          Plain Text: Displays text as written.

·          HTML: Displays text as coded using HTML tags.

·          ∑: Opens the MathML Equation Editor.

·          +: Opens the WebEQ Equation Editor.

Click Preview to view the text as it will appear.

Categories

 

Categorize

Click Categorize and the Categorize Question page will appear, enabling the Instructor to associate the question with an existing category or to create a new category. Categories are only available if the Add categories to questions option is selected on the Creation Settings page.

 

Keywords:

ENTER keywords for this question. When searching for questions in another Test or Pool, Instructors may search by keyword. When this type of search is performed the system will search through the keywords entered in this field.