Guide for Making Tests

Cards & their Associated Questions

To keep within budget, we have some limitations:

• a card can have only 1 version of a given question type, even in different tests
• tests can only contain 1 of a given card's question types at a time

What this means in practice is that if you have card X in one test and you choose its Fill in the Blanks question type, you'll not be able to use card X again in this test.

But! It's not all bad news.

Because you would have had to write out its FITB options, the next time you use that card in a different test you won't need to fill out the options again.

The same would be true if you'd chosen the Multiple Choice Question type instead of FITB; you'd have to fill in the MCQ options for that card once, but the next time you use it you wouldn't have to fill it out again.

How to deal with the Question Types

Note: The following question types don't need additional content authored specifically for them, and so don't appear in a card's editable answer options:

Sentence Builder (Drag & Drop

Multiple Choice Questions

For ALL multiple choice question types, separate possible answers with | (the pipe character).
On UK ISO keyboards it's usually on the key next to the Enter key.

Do NOT include the correct answer. It will be included automatically.

MCQ (EN prompt -> answers in CY)

The question's prompt is the EN text taken from the card. The learner has choose the correct CY answer from the options provided.

Content example:example

ateb anghywir | anghywir hefyd | y trydydd opsiwn anghywir

MCQ (CY prompt -> answers in EN)

The question's prompt is the CY text taken from the card. The learner has choose the correct EN answer from the options provided.

Content example:example

incorrect answer | also incorrect | the incorrect option

Audio MCQ (listen to CY audio, choose EN translation)

The question's prompt is the audio taken from the CY side of the card. The learner has choose the correct EN answer (in text form) from the options provided.

The options are taken from the MCQ (CY prompt -> answers in EN) above, so we don't need to double-up on authoring work. It isn't perfect since we're limited to needing to reuse options, but budget constraints dictate this approach. We don't have an EN -> CY version because we only have EN audio for the first 2 Progression Steps.

Image MCQ (listen to CY audio, choose correct image)

The question's prompt is the audio taken from the CY side of the card. The learner has choose the correct image from the options provided.

Authors have to copy desired image paths from the spreadsheet below:

list of image paths for cards.xlsx

Content example:example

cardiau/110001.jpg | cardiau/130005.jpg | cardiau/123456.jpg (each of these would be an "incorrect" answer; the correct answer is taken from the card this question is associated with)

Fill in the Blanks

format is word or word and otherword 
separate blank replacements by |

Content example:

Sentence Builder (Drag & Drop)

no additional content needs be authored for this type

When this question type is chosen, the card's CY text will be broken up into blocks (separated on each word), presented to the learner in a random order. They must then rearrange the blocks in the correct order.

No additional authoring is required for this question type; the question and answer text are both generated automatically from the card's existing content.