Inline Choice

Creating an Inline Choice Question

To create an interactive item type, begin by either creating a new test in Aware or navigating to an existing test. TEA suggests hot text for use in mathematics, reading, language arts, and social studies assessments, but Inline Choice is available for any assessment. Inline choice follows TEA's examples and may be used in conjunction with text, images, and tables. 

Note: Assessments with interactive response questions may be printed as test booklets only, without answer documents available. This test is not scannable, nor will it have student IDs, class numbers, or any other information. Teachers must use the Enter Answers feature to manually input student responses for students taking a paper version of the assessment.

1. Select Interactive Item Types from the options. 

2. Select Inline Choice from the available question types. 

3. Construct the Inline Choice question. Use the Add Placeholder Response button to indicate where the selection box should be placed within the question. Select the Continue button to move forward. 

4. Use the interaction builder to designate the answer choices and a correct answer.

Creating and Editing Equations

To create math equation answer choices, follow the steps below. 

1. Enter your interactive test question text. 

2. Select the Add Placeholder Response button for each response desired, but leave each box empty. Select Continue.

3. Use the Add Math button to enter the desired equations. 

Under Text-to-speech Override, add optional alternative text that students with the Text-to-Speech support will hear when the math is read aloud. For example, the answer choice 2×-4 could be read aloud as “two times negative four” instead of “two times minus four.”

Do not edit the text that appears after selecting Update. Use the question preview area on the left side of the screen to determine if the question is formatted correctly, not the encoded text on the right.

Note: As long as the equation looks correct on the third/final question preview screen, the equation will appear correctly to students. Equations occasionally appear incorrectly formatted on step 2 (construct your question). 

4. Select Create to complete the inline choice question, or select Update if an existing question is being edited.

Student Experience

Students will see the inline choice question during online testing. 

Data Analysis

Question Type is available in Quick Views. You can access Quick Views through the navigation bar or through the Quick Views card. 

Once in Quick Views, search for the assessment using the search fields. Click on the assessments you want to analyze and apply the Student Individual Responses template from the drop-down menu. 

Interactive questions will be indicated in data analysis next to the scores for each of those questions. The examples below show questions with three interactions. Teachers may view the exact question in the Enter Answers screen and modify student answers if needed. 

Question Type is available as a column for data views, located in the Responses folder.

This column will show the question type and in which question number the type is located.

Note: For district and campus level tests, the Questions teachers can answer and score option must be set to All Questions for editing privileges.

Additional Information

Visit the Interactive Item Types FAQ for more information.