Editing the look and feel of an assessment is broken down into three areas which may be chosen using the pop-up menu located at the top of the screen. These areas include:
- Edit Headers, Footers and Other Messages - this allows you to edit the title, heading, instructions, attribution, and footer messages shown on web pages generated by Test Pilot for the assessment participants.
- Edit Layout and Preentation Options - this allows you to control how your questions are presented on web pages generated by Test Pilot. This includes features such as:
- offering all questions at once versus one-at-a-time or a group-at-a-time
- should questions be numbered
- should Test Pilot branch to another question based on the participant's response
- what color and size should be used for question text
- and many more such features...
- Edit Default Settings - this allows you to set up some default values for use when editing questions. This includes features such as:
- default question type
- default question group membership
- default text box size for essay questions
- and other such features...
Editing Look and Feel - Messages
Title - this text is shown in the browser title bar when the test is generated. It may not contain HTML code.
Header - this text is shown in large bold text centered at the top of the assessment's web page(s).
Instructions - this text is shown in normal sized text indented below the title at the top of the assessment's web page(s).
Prepared by - this text is shown italicized and right justified below the questions on the assessment's web page(s).
Footer - this text is shown as normal sized text indented at the bottom of the assessment's web page(s).
| Expert Features |
| If you choose to edit these options in expert mode, you may elect to override the default formatting of the header, instructions and footer. You could then enter your own HTML code for those items if you wish. Please note that you are NOT required to use HTML unless you are familiar with the lanugauge and wish to do so. HTML is the language of web page design and is how web broswers are instructed to present web pages.
Furthermore, the following three fields are offered. They allow you to insert you own custom HTML code into the assessment web pages generated by Test Pilot. Special care should be taken to ensure that the code is error-free as incorrect code may adversely affect the operation of Test Pilot assessments.
HTML code entered in the Script/Meta HTML field will be placed, as is, into the <HEAD> tag of the web page. Common uses would be for the entry of META tags or Javascript code.
Code entered in the Starting HTML box will appear before anything else that Test Pilot generates. Code entered into the Ending HTML box will appear after the footer on assessment web pages generated by Test Pilot. A possible use may be to include some advertising or standardized set of links at the top or bottom of web pages.
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Help is Available!
Please note that, at any time while you are editing an assessment, you can click upon the titles of the fields listed for your entries. If you do so, a pop-up window with an explanation of the items use and features will be shown.
Saving your Changes - Don't Forget to Update
It should be noted that on the editing panels, you will see one or more Update buttons. Whenever you adjust a setting or make changes to any item, you must click an update button to record the changes. You may make multiple changes and then click Update, but if you fail to click the update button, your changes may not be recorded.
The mode popup menu allows you to adjust access to Test Pilot features and trim the detail of the automatically provided assistance for authoring.
- for beginners - several of Test Pilot's more complicated options are hidden or preset to default values and pop-up assistance windows automatically appear to aid the user in the assessment authoring process.
- with assistance - most of Test Pilot's features are shown as controls which may be adjusted. Pop-up help windows must be manually requested for viewing by clicking upon any feature title.
- for experts - all of Test Pilot's features are shown as controls which may be adjusted. Help messages are minimized to maximize the number of controls that can be shown in a limited area. Pop-up help windows may still be manually requested for viewing by clicking upon any feature title.
