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Speaking of topics and questions ...

The topics and questions catalog is a collection of topics which store and organize questions by different subjects and areas of knowledge and are shown in a tree format in order to display an organized and user-friendly structure.

Questions of the evaluation. These questions may be: multiple choice, drop-down list, fill-in-the-blank, scale/value, correlation/multi-value, essay, and sorting.

Access permissions or restrictions are defined for each catalog item for specific users, user groups, disciplines or classes. Users can also define the inheritance of permissions or restrictions from parent items to child items.

Besides creating, editing and deleting catalog items, users with due permissions can also move them.

Users can also create question versions in order to ensure proper information traceability. Whenever questions must be edited, new versions can be created while maintaining the previous versions until all changes are completed. Upon completing changes, the new version can be released as the current and effective question version.

There are four different types of question versions:

• Editing: version still not released, which allows editing all question data;

• Current: released version available for use in evaluations;

• Previous: version previously used and which is now obsolete;

• Canceled: canceled version which is no longer available for use.

All question types can receive new versions. Only released versions can be used in evaluations.

Basic Path

01. In the main menu, click Evaluations.

02. Click the tab Manage.

03. Click Topics and questions.

04. View the catalog of available topics and questions.

Alternative Paths

Edit catalog

01. On the homepage, select the folder root topic on the right side of the window.

02. Press Edit.

03. In Permissions, click Add to define catalog access permissions.

04. Enter the user name, user group, class or subject to which you wish to assign permissions.

05. In the presented listing, select the user, user group, class or subject to which you wish to assign permissions.

06. In the level table, select the option that determines the permission level that will be assign to the selected item.

07. Press Add.

08. Press Restrictions.

09. Press Add to insert catalog access restrictions.

10. Enter the user name, user group, class or subject to which you wish to assign restrictions.

11. In the displayed listing, select the user, user group, class or subject to which you wish to assign restrictions.

12. In the level table, select the option that determines the level of restriction that will be assigned to the selected item.

13. Press Add.

14. Press Save or Cancel to discard the changes made.

Access catalog

01. Select the folder root topic on the left side of the window.

02. Browse through the catalog and view all available topics and questions.

Create topic in the catalog

01. Access the location where the topic will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Press Topic.

Create multiple choice question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the multiple choice question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Multiple choice question.

Create objective/drop-down list question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the objective/drop-down list question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Objective/drop-down list question.

Create fill-in-the-blank question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the fill-in-the-blank question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Fill-in-the-blank question.

Create scale/value question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the scale/value question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Scale/value question.

Create correlation/multivalue question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the correlation/multivalue question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Correlation/multivalue question.

Create essay question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the essay question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Essay question.

Create sorting question in the catalog

01. Access the location where the sorting question will be created.

02. Press New.

03. Click Sorting question.