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Create a Multiple Choice Item

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Delia Armijo
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This lesson provides step-by-step guidance on creating a Multiple Choice Item using Illuminate's NEW Item Bank. This item type allows for a single response to a posed question. These questions are automatically scored.

Where to Start

  1. Click Assessments.
  2. Select Browse Item Bank NEW.

Create a New Item

  1. Click Create Item at the top right hand side of the screen.
  2. Use the dropdown menu to select Multiple Choice as the item type.

Multiple Choice Items

  1. Enter the Item Stem. The stem is the beginning part of an item that presents a problem to be solved, a direct question, or an incomplete statement to be completed, as well as any other relevant information.
    • To insert a line break in the Stem, use shift-return (or shift-enter, depending on the keyboard).
  2. Click the radio button to indicate which answer choice is correct. It will highlight in pink.
  3. To have fewer available answer choices, click the Trash Can icon to remove an answer choice. Click Add Choice to add additional anser choices.

Drafted items are automatically saved.

A limit of 9 choices may be added to Multiple Choice items.

Item Details

  1. To link a Passage to the item, select the Book icon.
  2. To link Standard(s) to the item, select the Three Pages icon.
  3. To add Tags to the item, click the Tag icon.
  4. Additional Settings are available to edit per item such as Choice Labels, Locking the Choice Order, and Enabling/Disabling Teacher Instructions, Item Stem, and Rationale.

Users must link at least 1 standard when creating an item. If attempting to publish an item without standards, an error message will appear asking for standards to be aligned before publishing again.

Item Preview

  1. Click Item Preview to see a preview.
  2. You can select to preview the item from a Student or Instructor role.
  3. Test the item by selecting a response.
  4. Click Check Answer to verify the answer key. Correctly-selected answer choices will be indicated with a green checkmark. Both incorrectly-selected answer choices, and answer choices that should have been selected but were not, will be indicated with an orange X.

Publish Item

  1. When you've completed creating/editing your item, click Done.
  2. To make your item available to use in an assessment click Publish.
  3. To save an item that you aren’t ready to publish, click Save Draft.
  4. To delete your item click Discard.

Once items are Published, you can Lock, Edit, or Delete the item.

Next Steps

Now that you have created a Multiple Choice item, learn about Creating a NEW Item Bank Assessment.

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