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Self Test allows you to create a test consisting of multiple-choice questions that students can use to test their knowledge. No grades are assigned or recorded. Instead, when a student answers a question in a self test, they are informed immediately whether the answer is correct. You can also provide feedback on the answer.

You can create a general self test for the course or a self test for a specific content page in the Content Module. Students can access the self test for the course from the Course Menu, and they can access the self test for a content page from the Action Menu. Note: To create a self test for the course, you must first add the Self Test tool. See Add Page or Tool.

What do you want to do?

• create a self test for a content page
• create a self test for the course
• add questions to an existing self test
• add additional answers to an existing question
• edit a question
• edit an answer
• delete a question or answer
• delete all questions and answers
• move questions and answers
• download questions
• import questions

Creating a self test for a content page| Top

You can create a self test for a content page by entering multiple-choice questions and answers. You can also import questions and answers from a file. Questions, answers and feedback can include:

• plain text
• simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. From the Table of Contents, click the page of content to which you want to add a Self Test. The Content Page Settings screen appears.
3. Under Action Menu, click Self test. The Self Test screen appears.
4. Under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
5. Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
6. Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.
7. If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
8. To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
9. Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
10. To add more question and answer sets, repeat steps 5 through 10.

Note: Questions and answers are automatically displayed in Student View as soon as you enter them.

Creating a self test for the course| Top

You can create a self test for the course by entering multiple-choice questions and answers. You can also import questions and answers from a file. Questions, answers and feedback can include:

• plain text
• simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)

1. From the Course Menu, click Self Test. The Self Test screen appears.
2. Under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
3. Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
4. Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers at the bottom of the screen.
5. If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
6. To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
7. Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
8. To add more question and answer sets, repeat steps 5 through 10.

Note: Questions and answers are automatically displayed in Student View as soon as you enter them.

Adding questions to an existing self test| Top

1. From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
2. Under Question, in the Question text box, enter a question.
3. Under Answers, enter possible answers in each of the Answer text boxes. If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.
4. If you want to provide an explanation for each correct and incorrect answer, in the Feedback text box, enter the explanation. The feedback appears each time the student chooses an answer.
5. To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer and select Correct answer.
6. Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and the question is added to the Question List.
7. To add other question and answer sets, repeat steps 2 through 7.

Adding additional answers to an existing question | Top

1. From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Add question. The Add Question screen appears.
2. From the Question List, select the question to which you want to add an answer.
3. Under Answers, scroll down to the first available Answer text box. Add your answer. You can include:
   • plain text
   • simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)

   If you require additional Answer fields, click More answers.

4. If you want to include an explanation of each additional answer, in the Feedback text box, enter an explanation. You can include:
   • plain text
   • simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, colors)
5. To add more answers, repeat steps 4 and 5 for each Answer text box.
6. To indicate which answer is correct, return to the correct answer, and select Correct answer.
7. Click Add. The Self Test screen appears and each new answer is added to the Question List.

Editing a question | Top

1. From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question you want to edit.
2. Under Options, click Edit. The Edit Question screen appears.
3. Edit the text in the Question text box.
4. Click Update. The Self Test screen appears and the Question List is updated.

Editing an answer | Top

1. From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the answer you want to edit.
2. Under Options, click Edit. The Edit Question screen appears.
3. Edit the text in the Answer and Feedback text boxes for the answer you want to change.
4. Click Update. The Question List appears with the edited answer.

Deleting a question or answer | Top

Note: When a question is deleted, the answers associated with that question are also deleted.

1. From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question or answer you want to delete.
2. Under Options, click Delete. A warning message appears.
3. Click OK. The Self Test screen refreshes and the element is removed from the Question List.

Deleting all questions and answers | Top

1. From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Delete all. A warning message appears.
2. Click OK. A final warning message appears.
3. Click OK. The Self Test screen refreshes and all questions are removed from the Question List.

Moving questions and answers | Top

You can change the order of the questions in a Self Test. You can also change the order of the answers in a question. Note: Answers can only be moved within questions.

1. From the Self Test screen, from the Question List, select the question or answer you want to move.
2. Under Organize, select the direction and distance of the move, and click Go. The Self Test screen refreshes and the Question List is updated.

Downloading questions | Top

You can download all the questions contained in the Self Test Question List to your computer. Note: You cannot select individual questions to download.

1. From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Download questions. Your computer's file download screen appears.
2. Save the file on your computer.
3. When the download is complete, close the file download screen. The Self Test Question List appears and a text file containing all Self Test questions is saved on your computer.

If desired, you can edit the text file by changing, deleting or adding questions. You can then upload the updated file to your WebCT course and add them to Self Test again. For more information, see Importing questions.

Importing questions | Top

You may create a text or HTML file with questions and answers, upload the file into your WebCT My-Files folder, and then import it into Self Test. Imported questions are appended to any existing questions.

Note: If you create an HTML file, only include simple HTML tags (e.g., bold, italics, color) in the question and answer text.

First, create the file.

1. For each question, begin with :TYPE:MC
2. On the next line, enter :QUESTION
3. On the next line, enter the text of the question.
4. On the next line, enter :ANSWER, followed by the answer number, followed by :0 for an incorrect answer, or :100 for a correct answer. (See table below for examples.)
5. On the next line, enter the answer.
6. If you want to include a reason for the answer, on the next line enter :REASON, followed by the reason number. (See table below for examples.)
7. On the next line, enter the reason.
8. To create more answers and reasons, repeat steps 4 to 7.
9. To create a new question, repeat steps 1 through 7.

Now, upload the file to the My-Files folder and import it into Self Test.

10. From the Self Test screen, under Options, click Import questions from file. The Import From File screen appears.
11. Next to the Filename text box, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears. Upload and select the file. For more information, see Uploading a file with the WebCT Browser.
12. Click Import. A Final Confirmation screen appears.
13. Click Continue. The Self Test screen appears and the questions are added to the Question List.

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