Working with Exercise Items
The Edcite online education exercises consist of one or more exercise items, which can range from simple quiz questions, to interactive games. The items in an exercise provide the visual and interactive learning elements that are a major goal of the Edcite framework.
These items may include true/false questions, multiple choice questions, questions with visual and interactive elements, simple educational games with integrated assessment, interactive visualizations to teach and assess understanding, and other ways to engage, educate, and assess learning progress.
Teachers and others create exercises with items in two ways:
- find and use items from existing content
- create new items for the exercise.
These exercise items are then made available for other exercises, as well as for other teachers and parents. Similarly the new exercises are available
Using Existing Exercise Items
Edcite provides a library of shared exercise items for use with your exercises. Some of these are created by Edcite. However, many of the items are created by teachers and other users of the Edcite service, and shared for other teachers to use.
Items are rated and categorized into quality tiers, to make it easier to find quality items for use with our exercises.
Click on the Manage Items link on your home page to view items from the library. Then click on the Published Items tab to access items shared by all users.
You can search for items and filter searched items in each quality tier.
Creating Your Own Exercise Items
Exercise items are created by content creators, teachers, and sometimes by parents and other subject experts. To enable teachers and others to create interactive content without any knowledge of programming, the Edcite exercise framework uses specialized content editors for each type of item. Furthermore, each different type of item uses a specialized viewer to display the item of that type.
Each item is created by an Item Type Editor and saved in the database. When an exercise with the item is opened, the Item Type Viewer is used to display the item in the exercise.
To create a new item, click on the Create Item link on your home page.