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Creating Training Test Questions and Answers

The following procedures describe how to create a question that can later be associated with one or more skills tests and how to create an answer for each question.

To create a question for use in skills tests

  1. From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Training Administration > Test Questions.
  2. In the Questions list, click New, complete the fields, and save the new record.

    3. The following table describes the fields.

    Field
    Comments
    Category
    Use this field to indicate the general type of information sought in the question. The choices are All, Industry, Product, Job Role, and Organization.
    Explanation
    A text field optionally used to specify a single question pool to which the question belongs.
    Points
    The default point value of the question within a test. You can specify a different point value when you specify test details.
    Release
    Select this check box to lock the test and release it to end users. After release, administrators have to create a new test version to change the test.
    Text
    The question text that appears to test takers.
    Type
    The type of question you are defining. This value is used to determine how the question appears, and what options are available. Choices include True or False, Text, Essay, Multiple Choice, Single Choice, Header, Range, Random Pool, Footer, Sub-Header, Ranged Response, and Survey. If you want to randomly draw a question from a pool, you must create a placeholder question by choosing the type Random Pool.

To create an answer to the question

  1. From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Training Administration > Test Questions.
  2. In the Questions list, select the question, and click the Answers view tab.
  3. In the Answers list, click New, and complete the fields.

    4. A number is automatically entered in the Sequence field.

    The following table describes the fields.

    Field
    Comments
    Answer Text
    The text of a possible answer that test takers see.
    Correct
    When selected, indicates that the current answer is correct. When there are multiple correct answers, select this field for all of them.
    Partial Value %
    Point value for the selected answer.
    Sequence
    Indicates the order in which possible answers appear to test takers.

    Repeat Step 3 for each possible answer you want to appear to test takers.

  4. Click the up arrow or down arrow in the header of the column to sort the column in ascending or descending order, respectively.
  5. If you remove an answer, leaving a gap in the sequence numbers, click Renumber.

 Siebel eTraining Guide 
 Published: 21 April 2003