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Multiple Choice
Questions
Back - True / False Up - Questions Next - Check All That Apply

In addition to the common question definition controls, the options below offer specific control over multiple choice question presentation and evaluation.

You may have any number of choices. A space for entering a new choice/feedback/point combination is always provided.

    To add a choice, simply enter the data into the new choice box and click the update button. You may also use the quickly add box to specify a number of new choices to be added in a single update.

    To delete a choice, check the choice's delete checkbox and click the update button.

Expert Feature - multimedia choices
You may choose to have images or sounds as choices instead of text. The media must be one of those types supported by Test Pilot. The media must be specified as a simple filename or a URL. Simply enter the filename or URL in the space provided for the choice.

In the case of a URL, it must be a fully qualified URL including the server's name and path to the media file. An example of this would be:

http://www.clearLeacning.com/images/apple.icon.gif

In the case of a simple filename, the file must refer to a media item stored in the same web server directory as the assessment's .tp3 file. An example of such a filename would be:

bonjoursSound.au

You may choose to add an additional response choice of other and leave space for a participant to enter a choice of their own. This choice cannot be made the correct answer and will result in a zero point award when entered by the participant. This is typically used on survey questionnaires.

You may choose to have the choices presented in a popup menu or shown one after the other as radio buttons. Radio buttons allow all choices to be seen at once. You can choose to have the participant's response reported as the actual choice, an ordinal letter (a, b, c) or an ordinal number (1, 2, 3).

You can enter point awards and custom feedback in the spaces provided for each participant response. In order for this feedback to be shown, the appropriate options in Step#4 - Submit Actions must be set. That is, you must enable the issuing of feedback for your assessment. Point awards must be positive integer numbers.

Expert Feature - custom feedback links
If you are versed in HTML, the language of web page design, you may include links to remedial material in your custom feedback. This permits the construction of powerful tutorials using Test Pilot. For example, if a participant gets a question wrong, hyperlinks may be included in your custom feedback that, when clicked upon, will take the user to a web site where material assisting the participant in answering the question is available. A hyperlink may be entered as follows:

Click <A HREF="http://SITE/page.html">here</A> for additional help.

Substituting the appropriate URL in place of the text shown in red. If you wanted the page opened in a new window, the link could be entered as follows:

Click <A TARGET="_new" HREF="http://SITE/page.html">here</A> for additional help.

If this assessment is being offered a question-at-a-time and you have enabled branching based upon the participant's response, additional popup menus are shown to permit defining to which question to branch upon a response. It is generally recommended to first define all questions before setting up branching. The presentation of the popup menus is nearly identical to that of yes/no questions as shown below.


Help is Available!

    Please note that, at any time while you are editing an assessment, you can click upon the titles of the fields listed for your entries. If you do so, a popup window with an explanation of the items use and features will be shown.

Saving your Changes - Don't forget to Update

    It should be noted that on the editing panels, you will see one or more Update buttons. Whenever you adjust a setting or make changes to any item, you must click an update button to record the changes. You may make multiple changes and then click Update, but if you fail to click the update button, your changes may not be recorded.

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