Create a question for Learning Catalytics

1. In the top navigation bar, click Questions.

   

2. Click + Create a new question.

3. From the horizontal slider, select the Question Type for the new question.

   As you point to each question type, you see a description of what students see and how they must respond to that type of question.

   Note: If you plan to record scores for student responses to questions, some question types can be automatically scored by Learning Catalytics, and other question types require individual marking as correct or incorrect. For more information, see Learning Catalytics scores and Learning Catalytics automatic and manual scoring.

4. From the Discipline drop-down list, select a subject area for the question, which will help locate the question in the future.

5. In the Prompt box, enter the text of the question.

   To format this text, you can use Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX.

6. If the question will contain an image, click Add Images and select an image to upload.

   For more information, see guidelines for images you use in questions.

7. In the Options section, instructions vary according to the Question Type (format).

   You can't format text you enter here, as you can in steps 5 and 10 for the Prompt and for any Answer/Explanation you supply.

8. [Optional] In Sharing and Copyright, you can select the check box to make the question available to other instructors, and you can edit the attribution message.

9. [Optional] In Tags, enter content tags that you and others can use later to locate this question.

   When you click in the Tags box, you see an alphabetical list of tags that have been applied to questions in the discipline you selected for the question. You can scroll to select tags from this list, start typing to see if the list contains matches for the characters you enter, or continue typing and press Enter to add a new tag. Select or add as many tags as you'd like, and click x to remove any tag you don't want to save.

10. [Recommended] In Answer/Explanation, enter text that students will see when they review the question after class, or after exhausting allotted answer attempts for a Team-Based assessment.

    To format this text, you can use Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX.

11. [Optional] In Notes, you can include notes for yourself (and other instructors if you share this question) that are never shown to students.
12. Click Save & Preview or Save before you leave this page.

Do one of the following:

• At the end of adding a question, click Save & Preview.
• Use filters on the Questions page to find the question, and then click the question in the results list to display the question, answer(s), explanation, and sharing settings.

You can create a new question by cloning an existing question—a question that you or another instructor created. The changes you make do not affect the original question, and changes to that question do not affect the copy you create.

Note: You cannot clone a question provided by Pearson.

1. If it is not already open, find the question on the Questions page, and then click the question in the results list.
2. Click Clone near the top of the page.
3. In the Edit question window, make changes in any of the fields used to add a new question (see above).

4. In the Describe change box, at the bottom of the window, consider adding information about the changes you made. This note appears in the annotated list when you display the list of previous versions of the question.

   When you open a question, you can click Previous versions near the top of the page to see an annotated list of versions of the question.

5. Click Save & Preview or Save.

You can ask a new question at any point during a session for an Instructor-Led Synchronous module.

1. Open the course and the module.
2. Click Start session.
3. Click + Ask a new question on the fly in the upper right of the instructor dashboard.

4. Select a Question Type, Discipline, Prompt, and any other fields required for the type of question you are creating.

   Keep in mind that you can edit this question later if you want to keep it for future use. You might want to add information such as feedback (which students see when they review the session), tags, or notes.

5. Click Deliver.

1. Filter to find the question to delete.
2. Click the question in the results list to open it.
3. Click x Delete near the top of the page, and then click OK to confirm the deletion.