Create “Descriptive” Type Question

Publishers, school/district admins and teachers can create different types of questions on the platform. Descriptive questions are open-ended questions. The answers could be in the form of a list, a single word, a few sentences, a paragraph or an essay. You can provide feedback on each question (question level feedback) for descriptive type questions.  These questions are added on the “Questions” page and can be used while creating a standard test.

Follow the below steps to create a descriptive type question:

1. Log in to the portal.

2. Click “Assessment” on the left-hand side menu.

3. Click “Questions” in the sub-menu. 

You will be redirected to the “Questions” page. Here you can view the list of questions that are already created. 

4. Click “New Question” to add a new question. 

5. Click on “Descriptive” type question from the Question Type menu.

You will be redirected to the “Descriptive Question” page.

6. Enter the question text in the space provided using the Wysiwyg editor .

7. Check the “Auto Evaluate” checkbox, if you want the student’s response to be auto evaluated with the “Ideal Answer.”

8. Enter the “Ideal Answer” in the space provided. 

Note: If the “Auto Evaluate” checkbox is not checked, the teacher will have to evaluate all the descriptive answers manually.

9. Click on the tick icon to save the question. 

Note- The platform also provides multi-language support based on user-language. The question author could create the version of assessments and question in multiple languages by selecting the language from the drop-down menu and based on the user language the appropriate language version of the assessment will be shown to the users. 

Example - If the question author creates an assessment in Spanish and English language both. When a user with the Spanish language will attempt this assessment then they will have all the questions presented in the Spanish language and if, it's an English language user then in  English translation will be shown.

You can opt the following optional question settings while creating a descriptive type question.

1. Add Hint -

1. Click on the “Add Hint” button to add a hint to the question. This hint will be visible to the student if they opt for the Hint option while answering the question. 

2. Click on the “New” in the “Hints” box to add a new hint. You can add a maximum of 5 hints for each question. 

3. Check the “Deduct Marks on Every Hint” checkbox and enter the number of marks to be deducted (equal to or less than the total marks of the question) in the space provided. These marks will be deducted if a student takes the help of hints to answer the question. 

2. Add Teacher Hint

Click on the “Add Teacher Hint” button to add a hint to the question. This hint will be visible to the teacher when they are evaluating the student's response for the question.

3. Add Question Level Feedback

Question author can provide correct and incorrect answer feedback for the descriptive type question, using this feature. This feedback will be visible to the student at the time of question evaluation.

1. Students will get the correct answer feedback if they have given the correct answer for the question.

2. Students will get the incorrect answer feedback if they have given the incorrect answer for the question.

1. Click on the “Setting” icon.
2. You will see a setting pop up on the screen. 
3. Toggle ON the “Feedback” option to enable question level feedback. 
4. Enter the “Correct Answer Feedback” and/or the “Incorrect Answer Feedback” in the space provided.

4. Set the Question Score 

The platform provides a default scoring of 1 for each question. You can change the score from the Settings. 

1. Click on the “Setting” icon. You will see a setting pop up on the screen. 

2. Enter the score in the space provided. 

5. Set the Question Tag

You can set meaningful tags with each question.

1. Click on the “setting” icon. You will see a setting pop up on the screen.

2. Search for a tag from the search box or click “Browse.” 

   3. You will see the below "Add_tag" pop up if you click on “Browse.”

4. Select a category from the dropdown list. 

5. Check the "Tags" checkbox in the Tag Description box. 

6. Click “Save.” 

6. More Setting

You can handle various other question settings by clicking on “More Setting.”

    You will see the below “More Settings” option

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