Create Inspera Questions
Individual questions can be created in Inspera before they are added to a Question Set.
There are main 3 steps in creating a Question in Inspera:
- Enter the question name
- Enter the question content
- Select the required settings for the question
Question types
Three types of questions are available:
- Automatically marked questions: the correct answer(s) and marks are set for each answer in advance
- Manually marked questions: are marked once the assessment is submitted
- Not marked questions: these settings are used to add information for a question set such as the Academic Integrity Declaration.
Question name and question content
- Log in to Inspera Assessment (https://uqi.inspera.com/admin).
- Select Question from the Author drop-down menu.
- Click on the Create New button
- Select the required question type (e.g. Muitiple Choice)
- Enter the question name.
Tips:
- Each question should have a meaningful name.
- Do not include the full question in the question name
- Do not use numbers (e.g. Q1) in the question name. This will cause problem later if you want to randomise the display of questions
- Enter the question content.
- Click on the Select one alternative button.
- Enter the alternatives. By default the first option is selected (with the green radio button) as the correct answer.
- Click on the radio button for the correct alternative if the first alternative is not the correct one.
- Click on the Close button.
Marks
For automatic marks questions – marks are set for each answer.
By default, the correct answer is given mark 1
There are options to apply:
- negative marks
- marks per wrong answer
- marks for unanswered
- marks for all correct
- minimum marks
Optionally, individual marks can be set for each alternatives.
- Click on the By alternative button.
- Click on the Select one alternative button.
- Enter the individual marks for each alternative.
- Click on the Close button.
Feedback
Feedback can be prepopulated at a question level and will be displayed for students when they complete the assessment.
You can provide a rationale for the question, a model answer, or refer students to further resources.
- Click on the Feeback button.
- Enter the feedback content.
- Click on the Save button
- Click on the preview (eye) button to test the feedback.
The question is displayed.
- Select one alternative.
- Click on the Check answer button.
Note: The feedback is displayed when students complete the assessment regardless of their answer.
Main illustration
A video, audio or an image can be embeded to the top of the question.
PDF panel
Add a pdf of images (e.g. radiographs) or text (e.g. a case study or rubric) to the left hand panel of the question)
- Click on the PDF panel button.
- Click on the Upload PDF button.
- Click on the Browse button.
- Select the required file from your device. In this example, a rubric is selected.
- Click on the Open button.
- Click on the Insert button.
- Click on the Save button.
- Click on the preview (eye) button.
The rubric is displayed on the left pannel of the question.
Label
You can add multiple labels to questions and filter by these.
All contents
There are main 3 steps in creating a Question in Inspera:
- Enter the question name
- Enter the question content
- Select the required settings for the question
Question Name and Question Content
- Log in to Inspera Assessment (https://uqi.inspera.com/admin).
- Select Question from the Author drop-down menu.
- Click on the Create New button
- Select the required question type (e.g. Muitiple Choice)
- Enter the question name.
Tips:
- Each question should have a meaningful name.
- Do not include the full question in the question name
- Do not use numbers (e.g. Q1) in the question name. This will cause problem later if you want to randomise the display of questions
- Enter the question content.
- Click on the Select one alternative button.
- Enter the alternatives. By default the first option is selected (with the green radio button) as the correct answer.
- Click on the radio button for the correct alternative if the first alternative is not the correct one.
- Click on the Close button.
Question Settings
Depending on the question types and question content, different settings need to be included.
Marks
For automatic marks questions – marks are set for each answer.
By default, the correct answer is given mark 1
There are options to apply:
- negative marks
- marks per wrong answer
- marks for unanswered
- marks for all correct
- minimum marks
Optionally, individual marks can be set for each alternatives.
- Click on the By alternative button.
- Click on the Select one alternative button.
- Enter the individual marks for each alternative.
- Click on the Close button.
Mark scheme
Mark scheme is used for manually marked questions to provide guidance to markers
- Click on the Mark scheme button.
- Click on the Edit button.
- Enter the name of the marker scheme (e.g. Learning Theories mark scheme).
- Enter the guide content to markers.
- Click on the Save button.
Feedback
Feedback can be prepopulated at a question level and will be displayed for students when they complete the assessment.
You can provide a rationale for the question, a model answer, or refer students to further resources.
- Click on the Feeback button.
- Enter the feedback content.
- Click on the Save button
- Click on the preview (eye) button to test the feedback.
The question is displayed.
- Select one alternative.
- Click on the Check answer button.
Note: The feedback is displayed when students complete the assessment regardless of their answer.
Main illustration
A video, audio or an image can be embeded to the top of the question.
PDF panel
Add a pdf of images (e.g. radiographs) or text (e.g. a case study or rubric) to the left hand panel of the question)
- Click on the PDF panel button.
- Click on the Upload PDF button.
- Click on the Browse button.
- Select the required file from your device. In this example, a rubric is selected.
- Click on the Open button.
- Click on the Insert button.
- Click on the Save button.
- Click on the preview (eye) button.
The rubric is displayed on the left pannel of the question.
Label
You can add multiple labels to questions and filter by these.
- Academic Integrity & Assessment Security in Inspera
- Access Inspera
- Add graders to the test/exam
- Adding Resources (pdf files, links) to a Question Set
- Adding staff (contributors) to an Inspera assessment
- Adding the Academic Integrity Statement to your assessment
- Additional pages required for Inspera exams
- Alternative method for downloading Final Marks from Inspera
- Apply Alternative Exam Arrangements (AEAs) and Time Zone Adjustments in Inspera
- Assign questions to graders in Inspera
- Confirm grades
- Copying a question set from Staff Training to Production
- Create an Inspera assessment submission link in Learn.UQ
- Create bands and criteria
- Create marking committees in Inspera
- Creating Questions
- Downloading responses to Assumptions and Queries
- Enable After test settings
- Enrolling students in an Inspera assessment using CSV file
- Explanations in Inspera
- Export/Import questions from Blackboard to Inspera
- Exporting a Question Set to PDF
- False Start
- Images in Inspera Assessment
- Incident Adjustments for students who experience technical delays
- Inspera Assessment Design Settings
- Inspera Assessment Environments and their Purposes
- Inspera Assessment User Roles
- Inspera Assessment access methods for students
- Inspera Central Exams
- Inspera Exam Requests
- Inspera Examination Information Sheets
- Inspera Observed User Testing
- Inspera Question Set Version Control
- Inspera Recommended Assessment - Standard (non-exam) assessment - webpage
- Inspera Rubrics
- Inspera School-based Exams
- Inspera analytics
- Inspera assessment settings: Off-campus exam
- Invigilated on-campus exam settings
- Inviting students to an assessment via Test Code
- Late submissions and extensions in Inspera Assessment
- Mark and feedback in Inspera
- Monitor Assessment
- Name and label questions in Inspera Assessment
- Navigate Inspera workspaces
- Question sets in Inspera Assessment
- Release results
- Sections in Question Sets
- Sharing a question set in Inspera Assessment
- Student Arrives Late
- Supporting students to use Inspera Assessment
- Things to look for in review
- Transfer results from Inspera to your Learn.UQ course
- Video and audio in Inspera Assessment