Creating Questions for Assessment and Practice Questions Activities

Note: the tools featured in this article will not work for existing assessments if you do not see any questions when selecting the questions tab of the assessment activity editor.

Important:

• Pearson enables administrators and teachers to customize courses in many ways. While this is one of the more powerful features of this next-generation platform, there is the potential that making customizations in some courses could compromise the functionality, alignment, or efficacy of your virtual program.
• Creating and modifying assessment questions is an advanced feature of Pearson Connexus. Refer to articles contained in the Editor Section of Pearson Connexus Support if you have questions on how to access or use these features.

Add questions

Adding questions to assessments and practice questions activities is easy.

1. Open the Editor from the Main Menu.
2. Add an assessment or practice questions activity to the desired folder, or select Edit (pencil icon) next to an existing assessment activity.  
3. Select the Questions tab.

4. Select:
   • The Add question (plus sign) icon to create a new question. See the Create and edit questions section below for more information.
   • The Link question (link) icon to add existing questions or question banks. From here, you can choose a question or question bank from the current course, or select the list (browse) icon to find questions or question banks from another course you have access to.

Create and edit questions

The question editor allows you to:

1. Choose from between eight question types using the question dropdown menu. Review each question type below.
2. Select editable fields to open and use the rich text editor.
3. Choose to edit questions using a purely Text editor.
4. Preview the selected question.
5. Preview all questions.
6. Edit all of the questions using the Text editor.
7. Reorder questions by dragging them to the location you want them.
8. Delete questions.

Question types

Question type	Description
Custom	Create questions that don’t fit any of the predefined types. These can range in complexity from simple, formatting overrides of standard questions to complete, custom-question rendering and grading systems hosted on external servers. This is an advanced feature; contact support for more information.
Essay	Ask students to answer with an essay. You can provide an example answer and feedback. Because practice questions activities are meant to give students immediate feedback to respond to, essay questions are not available for them. Students can record audio or video in essay questions and question workspaces in assessment activities.
Fill in the Blank	Ask students to provide a word or phrase to accurately complete a statement. You can provide multiple correct answers to account for possible variations and feedback.
Matching	Ask students to match items correctly. In January 2022, we enabled teachers to add drag-and-drop questions for Matching question types. Question authors can define target regions on images, and learners drag and drop answer options (either text or media) to the targets.
Multiple Answer	From a list of possible answers, ask students to identify all that are correct.
Multiple Choice	From a list of possible answers, ask students to identify the one correct answer.
Ordering	Ask students to put items in the correct order.
Passage	This is not an interactive question template. Use this to provide a passage of text and ask students to refer to it in order to answer other questions in the assessment or homework activity. You can provide a single passage for the activity and/or assign a passage to specific questions.
Drag and Drop Matching Question	You can format Matching questions as graphic drag and drop interactions where you give students an image with targets, and a list of draggable answer options that they can drag and drop on those targets.
Graphic Hot Spot Multiple Answer Question Type	This option gives teachers the ability to define: Border style, width, and color of the hot spots. A name for hot spots in this question type, so student choices in assessment analytics give more meaningful data. The border style, width, and color of drop areas in Matching: Graphic drag and drop questions.

Additional support: 

• For more information about restrictions for editing assessments not built directly into Pearson Connexus, review the Restrictions for Editing Assessment Settings help article.
• For further assistance, please contact Pearson Support. Phone: 844-597-3224 Email: pcxsupport@pearson.com.