AVElife TestGold Studio

Purpose: create a new simple educational test consisting of 3 questions from scratch.

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Lesson 1 – Creating a new simple educational test from scratch

Test questions:

1. Is Washington a capital of USA?
– Yes (reference answer)
– No

2. Is cactus a spiny plant?
– Yes (reference answer)
– No

3. Is cherry a berry?
– Yes (reference answer)
– No

Instruction:

1. Choose File - New - Educational Test (see the image below).

2. Test Editing Dialog Box opens. This dialog is multipage, therefore to choose some page, click the appropriate node of the test properties category tree in the left part of the dialog.

3. Go to the Description page and enter “Lesson 1 – Creating a new simple educational test from scratch” in the Test Name entry field (see the image below).

4. Then go to the Questions page (see the image below).

We will consider the creation of a new question on the example of the first one “Is Washington a capital of USA?“.

4.1. press Add New Question button on the Questions toolbar (see the image below).

4.2. Test Editing Dialog Box opens.

4.3. When you open this dialog, General Tab is offered by default, or you can go to this tab by clicking its caption on the top of the dialog.

4.4. First of all, to specify some question type, choose appropriate value in the Question Type list. TestGold contains 12 question types, 11 can be used in educational tests. As the question means full agreement (“Yes”) or full disagreement (“No”) only, we can use the Alternative question type (see the image below).

4.5. Now we will specify question formulation.

You can use both formatted (using built-in text editor) and unformatted question text in TestGold. Here formatting is not necessary and we can use Unformatted text. Choose appropriate value in the Text Type list (see the image below).

To specify question formulation, go to appropriate entry area and enter the text “Is Washington a capital of USA?” (see the image below).

4.6. To specify possible choices for this test question and specify the right one, go to the Choices Tab by clicking
its caption on the top of the dialog.This tab contains answer list and appropriate toolbar, which you can use to add a new answer or select it from the list of existing ones. We used alternative question type and predefined choices “Yes” and “No” registered in the list automatically – a part of our task is already completed (see the image below).

Now we must specify Reference Answer. In this case – “Yes“. Select the “Yes” item (it should be selected) from the choice list and press Define Reference Answer toolbar button. Appropriate tick will appear in the left part of the selected item (see the image below).

Now press OK button in the bottom-right part of the dialog (see the image below).

Question dialog box will be closed, new item will be added to the Question List (see the image below).

Congratulations!
You have just created your first question!

Repeat actions described above by analogy for 2 left questions.

5. Now you must save the test you have created in the file. Choose File – Save. When standard Save file dialog box opens, you must specify the file name AVELife_SAMPLE01.test and press Save button (see the image below).

Congratulations!
You have just created a new simple educational test consisting of 3 questions from scratch!

Location:
{TestGold} DataTestsSamplesAVELife_SAMPLE01.test

Notice:
To use a new test, register it in the test list of the application:
1. Go to the Testing application mode.
2. Choose Testing | Register Test.

See Also:
Test Editing Dialog Box
Create a new test question from scratch
Create a new test answer from scratch
Save current edited test
Register the test

Lesson 1 – Creating a new simple educational test from scratch