The Question Options panel, located on the right-hand side of the question editor, contains crucial settings for designing and refining your questions. 

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the various options available within this panel, including scoring configurations, content attachments, labeling, and other general question properties.

Standard features

Question options are available for all question types. Here's an overview of the options you can configure in the right-hand panel of the question editor:

• Marks: How the question is scored
• Mark Scheme: The ability to create a mark scheme for the question
• Feedback: Automatic feedback linked to the question
• Main illustration: Add an image, or embed code as a header to the question
• PDF Panel: Add a PDF as stimulus to the left of the screen
• Labels: Tag the questions to aid in sorting and filtering within the Question Bank.

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  These settings determine how the question is scored. There are different ways of setting up marks for automatically marked questions and manually marked questions. 

  To learn more about Marks, visit our Help Center articles:

  • Basic Method for Question Scoring
  • Advanced Method for Question Scoring

  Threshold values

  This feature requires activation. 

  This feature allows you to calculate marks on questions using predefined threshold levels. Available for all automatically marked questions except Matching/Pairing, Drag and drop, Hotspot and Code compile. 

  To learn more about Threshold values, visit our Help Center article Thresholds on question level.

  Bands and Criteria

  This feature requires activation. 

  This feature enables you to award marks using bands and criteria, primarily for Essay and Oral question types. 

  To learn more about Bands and Criteria, visit our Help Center article Bands and Criteria.

  Criteria

  This feature requires activation. 

  This feature allows you to award marks using specific criteria. It is available for the question types Essay and Oral.

  To learn more about Criterias, visit our Help Center article Criteria marking.

  Rubrics

  This feature requires activation.

  This feature enables awarding marks using rubrics. It is available for manually marked questions such as Essay, Oral, Text Area, Upload Assignment, Programming, Math Working, and Audio Record.

  To learn more about Rubrics, visit our Help Center article Rubrics overview.

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  This feature requires activation.

  You can add a mark scheme to the question for the graders to use in the grading process.

  To learn more about Mark schemes, visit our Help Center article Mark scheme for questions.

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  This feature requires activation.

  This feature allows you to add automatic feedback linked to the question or its alternatives.

  To learn more about Feedback, visit our Help Center article Predefined feedback per question and per alternative.

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  All questions can make use of illustrative media in the heading. You can use the following media:

  • Image (supported formats: *.jpg, *.gif, *.png)
  • Embed code (ie. embed code from Youtube to show a video). iframe must be added to the embed code.

  Within the Questions options, select the Main illustration drop-down. The default is set to None. Choose either Image or Embed code.

  While the player will resize images for candidates, larger images take longer to load. Scaling the image before adding it is recommended; a width of around 800 pixels is generally a good practice.

  Note that Inspera does not change or verify the embedded content, and we recommend Authors verify that the embedded content displays as expected in the browsers to be used by the candidates.

  Make sure to add iframe to the embed code. On lockdown tests using SEB or IIB, embedded code from Youtube works, but videos from other places (eg. Vimeo) may not. You should open the test in SEB as a candidate to ensure the video plays as expected.

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  Attach a PDF file. The PDF will not be visible in question edit mode, please preview your question to ensure it is displayed correctly. The PDF will be shown to the left of the question, and the candidate can resize the panel.

  To learn more about attaching PDF files, visit our Help Center article How to Attach PDF Documents to Questions.

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  Use labels to tag your questions with, for example, specific subjects, to aid in sorting and filtering within the Question Bank. 

  To learn more about Labels, visit our Help Center article Add labels to questions.