Answering Questions

Question page(s) for this assessment contains multiple features and instructions that are important to recognize.

This page contains one or more questions that have been created for this assessment. Questions may be presented one at a time, several on a page, or as part of a question group that may contain its own set of instructions that you should read carefully. Helpful information about these pages is presented below. If you have further questions, please contact the assessment administrator.

Timed Assessments (Optional)

If this assessment has a time constraint, you will be notified upon login, and a clock will display the remaining time available. Once time has elapsed, the assessment will automatically be closed, barring any additional answers from being saved. Note: Once the timer begins, it runs continuously, even if you exit and reenter the assessment.

Marking Questions for Review (Optional)

If enabled, a checkbox to the right of each question allows you to mark questions you wish to review at the end of the assessment. Unanswered questions are also displayed at the end of the assessment.

Comments (Optional)

If enabled, a text box allows you to enter your own comments to provide feedback for any question or answer.

Navigate the assessment using the buttons at the bottom of each page. While button names can vary, typically there is a Next Page button that moves you forward, and a Prev Page button that returns you to the previous page of questions and the answers recorded there. (Note: Some assessment types only allow you to navigate forward.) A Back to Start button on the first page of questions allows you to return to the page with the beginning instructions. The final page presents a Finished button that you must click to end the assessment and calculate your results.

How to Answer Questions

General Rules

Most question types, such as multiple choice, true/false, and multiple select, require the selection of an answer via a circular radio button.

  • When round radio buttons are displayed, select only one answer.
  • When Checkboxes are displayed, select one or more answers.
  • When a dropdown list is displayed, select one item from the list of items
  • When you see a text box, type your answer directly in the text box.
Matching

The column to the left presents dropdown boxes from which you select the letter corresponding to the correct matching question found in the column to the right. The number of items in the left and right columns does not have to be the same.

Fill-In/Short Answer

Type a brief answer in the space provided. At the assessment author’s discretion misspellings may be allowed, in which case the “sound” of the answer you type will be matched against the “sound” of the correct answer.

Essay/Opinion

Type your answer in the space provided without limitation on length. You may format your answer with carriage returns and spaces, but text formatting features such as bold and italics are not currently supported and will not be saved should you include them in the answer you provide.

Tip

When providing a long answer (essay text), or answering a question that requires more than a moderate amount of time, some test takers like to use a text editor such as Notepad, Apple Notes, Microsoft Word, or Apple Pages to write the answer in order to save your draft information as you work. When satisfied with what ahs been written, copy and paste the completed answer into the assessment question answer space to submit.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

All onscreen help topics reference the buttons and labels found within the software by their default names. However, these buttons and labels may be customized by the assessment author, so it is possible that a button referenced in the help topic will have a different name from the actual button you see that serves that function. Additionally, authors have the ability to remove buttons from the interface that they feel are unnecessary, so if the help topic references a button that you cannot locate, then it is likely that that button has been removed from your assessment and you can just disregard it.