The Assessment Coverage view is an Outline Editor view for analyzing assessments to ensure that the assessment questions adequately measure competency as related to the content linked to the assessment. The analysis in the Assessment Coverage view is based on associating a question with a module, section, or topic using the Associated Content property for the question. See Associated Content Property under Question Properties in the View Document Properties chapter for information about setting the Associated Content property for a question.

Note: You can include questions in your content by linking them directly to a module or section in the outline structure (inline questions), or by including them in a linked or associated assessment, or both. You can include assessments in your content by linking them directly to the outline structure (inline assessment), or by associating them with a parent document such as a module or section using the Assessments property.  

The Assessment Coverage view serves several functions. 

• It shows the question coverage in an assessment by the parent document in the outline to which the assessment is associated or linked.
   
• It shows the question coverage for all documents (modules, sections, topics) in the outline, allowing you to see the areas of the outline that have no associated questions in the assessment.
   
• It shows questions in an assessment that have no associations with documents in the outline.
   
• It helps authors find additional questions that can be added to improve coverage.

The Assessment Coverage view includes three components: 

• Assessment section: Used to select the assessment you want to analyze or improve.
   
• Questions Associated section: Used to view which questions in the current assessment are associated with the currently selected item in the outline. You can also use the tools in this section to add or delete questions.
   
• Questions column: This column is added to the Outline pane when you display the Assessment Coverage view. The numeric value in the Questions column shows the number of questions in the selected assessment that are associated with each document in the outline and its children, if the document is a parent.