Question Metadata

Overview

Instructors have the option to create categories, keywords, Learning Objectives, and Levels of Difficulty for questions to help organize them for future use.

 

Note: The Question Metadata options are only available if Add categories and keywords to questions is selected in Creation Settings.

Add Metadata to a Question

Follow these steps to add metadata to a question.

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

  2. Create a new Test or select Modify next to an existing Test.

  3. Select a new question in the Add Question: field or select Modify next to an existing question.

  4. Click Categorize to add a category, Set Learning Objectiveto add a Learning Objective, or Set Level of Difficultyto add a Level of Difficulty. For Keywords, enter the words, separated by commas, directly into the Keywords field.

  5. Select a value from the drop-down list and click Add. The metadata will be assigned to the question. To organize the list of available values, click Manage.

Manage Metadata

Metadata values can be added, removed, and changed. Metadata created in one question can be used when creating other questions in the same course.  Follow these steps to add values for metadata.

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

  2. Create a new Test or select Modify next to an existing Test.

  3. Select a new question in the Add Question: field or select Modify next to an existing question.

  4. Click Manage Categories, Set Learning Objective, or Set Level of Difficulty.

  5. To add a value to the list of available values, enter it in the field and click Add. Available values appear below. Click Modify to change the name of a value or Remove to delete the value from the list.