This lesson provides step-by-step guidance on creating an Inline Choice item in the Item Bank. This item type requires students to select the correct response from one or more dropdown menus within the question. This question type can be administered online or on paper, offers full, partial, and relative scoring, and is automatically scored.
Before You Begin
This lesson begins assuming that users have the permissions to create new Item Bank items, and are familiar with the item creation process. To learn more about creating Item Bank items, take a look at the Create Items article.
Create Inline Choice Item
General Item Settings and Question Creation
- Select the Inline Choice item type.
- (Optional) Choose one or more passages by selecting Link Passage.
- Passages must be published and located in the same Work Space to be available for linking.
- Use the slider to determine if the item should Include Teacher Instructions.
- If the slider is set to Yes, enter teacher instructions into the text box.
- Enter the Question in the text box.
- The Question may also include audio, video, images, equations, or tables, as shown in the CKEditor formatting tools. Take a look at CKEditor Formatting Tools for Staff Users for more details.
- To add an Inline Choice dropdown to the Question text, select IC in the CKEditor formatting toolbar. Select Clear IC to remove the selected Inline Choice dropdown.
- Use the Partial Credit slider to enable or disable partial credit.
- If Partial Credit is disabled, students must answer every Inline Choice correctly to receive points; if any response is incorrect, students receive no points.
- If Partial Credit is enabled, students can receive points for partially correct answers.
- If Partial Credit is enabled, use the checkbox to enable Relative Scoring.
- If Relative Scoring is disabled, each Inline Choice can be assigned an independent number of points.
- If Relative Scoring is enabled, points are awarded according to how many Inline Choices are answered correctly.
- Enter the maximum Total Possible Points students can earn. If Partial Credit has been enabled, the Total Possible Points field becomes uneditable, and instead displays the maximum number of points for the question according to the points assigned to each Inline Choice.
- Select numbers or letters from the Type of Choices dropdown.
- Select Generate Inline Choices. Setup options will generate for each Inline Choice that has been added to the Question field.
Inline Choice Setup
- Once generated, the Generate Inline Choices button will update to display Update Inline Choices. Select Update Inline Choices to update the Inline Choice table after adding or removing Inline Choice dropdowns in the Question.
- The generated table displays a list of the Inline Choice dropdowns added to the Question. Enter the Inline Choice Options that should be available under each dropdown menu for students.
- If Partial Credit is enabled, but Relative Scoring is disabled, this table also displays the Points column, where each Inline Choice can be assigned an individual point value.
- By default, two Inline Choice Options are available. Each Inline Choice must include at least two Options, and allow up to nine Options.
- Select Add Option to add another Inline Choice Option.
- Select the trashcan icon to remove the Inline Choice Option.
- Select the circle next to the Inline Choice Option that is the correct answer.
- The Inline Choice Option circles will initially display as grey in color, and will turn green if it is selected as a correct answer.
- Select Preview to view how the item will display in the Student Portal.
- If Relative Scoring is enabled, the Relative Scoring table appears underneath the Inline Choice table. Enter the Points Awarded to students for each successive level of Correct Answers Selected.
- Select Save to save the item progress, or select Next to save and continue to the next step.
Next Steps
To learn more about creating different item types, take a look at the other articles in the Item Types manual.