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Field name

Item type

Multivalued

Notes

Item data

Item type

all

One of the available Item types or empty for a continuation row.

PVSA and OSCE are not supported at the time of writing.

Item number

all

Optional item number

Question title

all

Item title

Question text

all

Summary text

Variant

all

Item variant if the variant support is available. Contains a variant code, for example, ‘en’

Comments

all

The comments are displayed only on the item page

Examiner notes

all

These are examiner comments. Displayed on the marking page for the examiner and also on Candidate feedback report

Number of markers

all

Applicable to multi marking only

Marking method

all

Applicable to multi marking only. Supported values are:

criteria total

Marking resolution

all

Applicable to multi marking only. Supported values are:

manual avg sum

Resource

all

Yes 🚩

It can contain either file name (see Candidate resources below) or an existing resource number from the Resource library.

Resource title

all

Yes 🚩

Resource title. The title is assigned to the resource defined in the previous column

If multiple resources are defined in separate columns and at least one has a Resource title defined, this column must exist for each resource but could be empty if the title should not be defined.

Resource caption

all

Yes 🚩

Resource caption. The caption is assigned to the resource defined in the previous column.

If multiple resources are defined in separate columns and at least one has a Resource caption defined, this column must exist for each resource but could be empty if the caption should not be defined.

Candidate resource

OSCE

Yes 🚩

Supported only if item import is uploaded as a ZIP file. Must contain a relative file name inside the zip file.

Candidate resource title

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource title

Candidate resource caption

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource caption

Examiner resource

OSCE

Yes 🚩

Supported only if item import is uploaded as a ZIP file. Must contain a relative file name inside the zip file.

Examiner resource title

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource title

Examiner resource caption

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource caption

Marking note for examiners

OSCE

Yes 🚩

Supported only if item import is uploaded as a ZIP file. Must contain a relative file name inside the zip file.

Marking note for examiners title

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource title

Marking note for examiners caption

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource caption

Role player resource

OSCE

Yes 🚩

Supported only if item import is uploaded as a ZIP file. Must contain a relative file name inside the zip file.

Role player resource title

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource title

Role player resource caption

OSCE

Yes 🚩

See Resource caption

… dimension 1 …

all

Yes

Define a list of values for one dimension. Please see the Multivalued columns paragraph below.

… dimension 2 …

all

Yes

Define a list of values for one dimension. Please see the Multivalued columns paragraph below.

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This is just a placeholder exported by the Item export feature from Practique. It helps to quickly distinguish between item data and criteria data and is ignored during import.

Criteria data

Stem

OSCE, EMQ, MTF, MWQ

Criterion text.

Stem comments

MWQ

Comments explaining this stem, like item comments

Marker notes

MWQ

Notes for markers - like item examiner notes or a Model answer

Type

OSCE, MWQ

Sheet (criterion) type. See the Criteria types above.

Answer ordering

Ignored for CPQ and MTF

Applicable to ‘discrete’ criteria type only.

Weight

OSCE

Criterion weight.

Mandatory criterion

all

Defines if this criterion has to be answered

Levenshtein threshold

VSAQ only

Defines the Levenshtein threshold for the automated marking.

Number of lines

MWQ with ‘text’ criteria only.

How many lines would be rendered on item preview or item paper.

Indentation level

MWQ

The indentation level allows us to visually specify sub and sub-sub parts of a question on the paper. Defaults to 0 and can be defined as numbers 0,1,2,3 etc

Maximum mark

SAQ or ‘text’

Defines the maximum mark for this criterion. It’s computed automatically for discrete type but has to be specified for text type because there is no list of scored available answers.

Angoff

all

Angoff for this criterion

Difficulty

all

Ebel difficulty - supported values depends on instance settings, but defaults to easy, medium, hard

Relevance

all

Ebel difficulty - supported values depends on instance settings, but defaults to essential, important, acceptable

Feedback visible to candidate

all

Boolean value - 0, 1. If not set, then it’s not visible to the candidate

Available answers

SBA, OSCE ‘discrete’, MWQ 'discrete', EMQ

Yes

It makes sense for item types where the available answers can be defined so usually discrete criteria or VSAQ.

Correct answer

like Available answers

If defined, the answer would have set a score of 1 mark. If any other mark is required, please use the extended answer definition format

Resource

all

Yes 🚩

It can contain either file name or an existing resource number from the Resource library. See the “Resource” row in the item part above.

… dimension 1 …

Yes

Define a list of values for one dimension. This will be used as CountAs for the current criterion. Please see the Multivalued columns paragraph below.

… dimension 2 …

Yes

Define a list of values for one dimension. This will be used as CountAs for the current criterion. Please see the Multivalued columns paragraph below.

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