This list shows all of the features that the Gauge platform has to offer for tests, lessons, and other miscellaneous content types as-well as the types of available content.
Types of Content in Gauge's platform
- Tests with Built-in Questions
- Tests with Question Banks
- Tests with Sections (like a Test with Question Banks but scored individually by section)
- Surveys (like a Test, but answers are not scored)
- Lessons
- Programs/Courses (unlimited grouping of Tests, Exams, Surveys, and Lessons)
Tests, Lessons and other Content - Basic Features
- Unlimited number of tests/lessons/content allowed per private test.com account website
- Unlimited number of questions/lesson pages allowed per private test.com account website
- Activate, deactivate and hide logic flags (used to make content available for taking)
- Control access to tests/content based on content that has been assigned to a user to take
- Control access to tests/content based on user group membership
- Custom control of display sort orders in choose to take navigation lists shown to users
- Copy and duplicate tests/content
- Duplicate and auto translate content into 22 other languages
- Time limits while taking
- Prerequisites based on other content either successfully completed or passed (within an optional time period window)
- Override system display messaging, navigation buttons, page titles, page headers on the before taking, while taking and finished taking pages
- Optionally control the user experience based on user group membership (used to control what different user are able to see and/or access based on their group membership
Tests and Content - Taking Options
- Individually control number of questions displayed on a page
- Optional controls for back button usage and the skipping of questions
- Options to allow test taker to stop and restart taking a test, with or without a stop taking button, limit restart frequency by number of occurrences and/or within an optional time period window
- Option to allow a test taker to finish taking a test without answering all the questions and scoring those unanswered questions as incorrect
- Limit retakes individually by successful, unsuccessful, pass and/or fail counters within an optional time period window
- Limit retakes with individual first retake and/or subsequent retakes after a ‘cooling off’ period of time
- Optional displays for the display of an elapsed timer, progress bar, calculator, custom question hints, custom question and/or question bookmarking
- Individually customized instructions and/or help pages
- Option to enforce a Minimum Time Frame while taking content, for example to track hourly credits and force a user to spend a minimum amount of time taking certain content before being awarded credits or certification
- Optional smart pull down panels to display media, additional instructions or help while taking a test
- Optional user authentication upon test/content start using Challenge and Verification questions
Tests and Content - Question Options
- Question types including: multiple choice, multiple answer, Likert, fill in the blank, essay, matching, pull down lists, drag and drops, sort ordering
- Question display options: automatically formatted, plain text, rich text, equation formula builder, symbol editor, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
- Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to questions using test.com’s Advanced Express Media Library Display feature
- Question scoring method options: variable question values, partial credit, all or nothing, credit with deductions, no score, extra credit, optional no answer
- Special scoring for essay and short answer question types: automatically using keywords/phrases/concepts and manual with administrator scoring wizard workflow
- Duplicate, copy and paste selected groups of questions across different tests and sections
- Bulk load questions
- Reorder, deactivate, delete and hide questions
- Optional customized instructions, hints, references and explanations/rationales
- Optional possible answers randomization by: all answers, all except last answer, all except last 2 answers
- Questions can be grouped in tests using sections in one test or questions across sections in different tests can categorized across three different independent custom hierarchical categories
- Store multiple versions of similar questions, track replacement questions and option to identify your questions with a custom lookup code so questions can be linked with other software packages or for reporting
- Formatting and media used in a question to display differently if taken online, or in printed versions or used in the display of results
Tests and Content - Question Randomization Options
- Optional limit by maximum question counts
- Optional automatic or manual override settings to balance included questions by various difficulty levels
- Force question inclusion specifying question anchor types: force at start of test, force at end of test, or allow anywhere in a test
- Optional control randomization/question counts individually by sub groups of questions within test sections
- Optional randomize possible answers (with selective overrides and the handling of “all of the above” type of questions)
- For retakes, option to not the repeat already answered or correctly answered questions within an optional time period window
Tests and Content - Scenario Options
- Associate scenarios with one or more questions
- Scenario display options: automatically formatted, plain text, rich text, equation formula builder, symbol editor, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
- Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to scenarios using test.com’s Advanced Express Media Library Display feature
- Automatically display scenario prior to each question on an interactive drop down panel, option to redisplay in full or partially for additional questions that use the same scenario
- When randomizing questions, option to force questions with the same scenario to be grouped together and/or balance questions counts
- Store multiple versions of the scenario, scenario formatting and media used in a scenario to display differently if taken online, or in printed versions or used in the display of results
Lesson Pages
- Lesson page display options: automatically formatted, plain, rich text, equation formula builder, symbol editor, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
- Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to lesson pages using test.com’s Advanced Express Media Library Display feature