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Adding Tools at the Question Level

• Inserting Tools in the Question Stimulus
• Inserting Tools in Question Responses

Instructors may add tools to assessments to allow students to use while taking the assessment. To make a tool — such as a protractor, calculator, or ruler — available to students for an entire assessment, use the Assessment Tools in the assessment settings.

Inserting Tools in the Question Stimulus

Step 1 — Click the Tools button on the rich text toolbar.

Step 2 — Select the calculator, protractor, or ruler from the list. For each tool, the name that displays to students can be adjusted, and alternative text can be added. 

Step 3 —Click OK to save.

Step 4 — Click Preview to see what the question will look like to students.

Step 5 — Click the tool to expose the tool and find the correct answer.

Step 6 — Click Edit Question to make further edits and save your changes.

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Inserting Tools in Question Responses

You can use these same steps to add tools to question response options for the Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, Ordering, Fill in the Blank Drag and Drop, and Label Image question types.

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