View the Content Summary pane

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You can navigate to the pane of a specific piece of content in the Content Repository to access the Content Summary pane that contains other elements that can't be defined in the Editors.

You can view the Content Summary pane for all content listed under All Content Types in the Content Repository:

Questions
Interactive narratives
Math Apps
Text

Clicking on a piece of content expands its Content Summary pane where you can view and further edit the selected item's:

Source
Details
Statistics
Hints
Revisions

The information stored in the Content Summary pane facilitates searching, sorting, filtering, and performance reporting.

Source

You can access the source code to edit the raw data of a piece of content:

Click the Edit arrowin the Content Summary pane.

Click Edit Source.

After clicking the arrow next to the Edit button, the Edit Source option is highlighted.

Make your edits in the Edit Question Source pane.

Source code in the Edit Question Source pane is highlighted.

NOTE: If you enter invalid field or value data, you may make your content unworkable.

Click Save & Close.

You are returned to the Content Repository.

Content Summary pane with question name, preview, details, authors, statistics, hints and revision history.

Details

The Edit Details button allows you to manage the informational fields and associated values that appear in the Content Summary pane.

Edit Details button is highlighted on the Content Summary pane, next to the Authors list.

The Edit Details screen will appear where you can edit the following information fields:

Edit Details dialog box

Name
Description
Attribution
Difficulty
Language
Subjects
Groups
New information fields

NOTE: Remember to click Save in the Edit Details screen when you are done editing your Content Summary information fields.

The Save button is highlighted.

Name

Use the text field to edit the name of the content.

The Name field is highlighted.

Description

Use the text field to enter a description of the content.

The Description field is highlighted.

Attribution

Use the Attribution drop-down list to select which organization or source the content authoring can be attributed to.

The Attribution drop-down list is highlighted.

NOTE: The name of the organization(s) or source(s) will appear by default if that organization or source directly edited the content.

Select the Attribute myself check box if you want your name to appear as a contributing author to the content.

Under the Attribution drop-down list, the Attribute myself checkbox is selected.

NOTE: The name of the author will appear by default if that user directly edited the content.

NOTE: You are only able to edit the Attribution field if you created or edited the piece of content. If you didn't contribute to the creation or editing of the content, the Attribution field will not be visible when you click Edit Details in the Content Summary pane.

Edit Details dialog where Attribution drop-down list is not visible.

Difficulty

Use the Difficulty drop-down list to rate the difficulty of the content.

The Difficulty drop-down list is highlighted.

Language

Use the Language drop-down list to select the language that the content text is to be displayed in.

The Language drop-down list is highlighted.

Subjects

Select the Subject check box(es) for the available areas of study within your organization that you want the content to be tagged with.

All subjects are listed with checkboxes next to each subject in the list.

TIP: Check out Work with subjects.

Groups

Select the Groups check box(es) for the question groups that you want the content to included in.

All question groups are listed with checkboxes next to each group in the list.

Information Fields

New information fields can be added to the Content Summary pane:

Define the name of a new field.

Under Information Fields, the textbox under the Field column is filled in.

Define a value to display in the new information field.

Under Information Fields, the textbox under the Value column is filled in.

Click Add Row if you want to create more than 1 new information field.

NOTE: A Content Summary pane can contain any number of information fields.

Statistics

A range of statistics are calculated for the content and displayed in the Statistics section of the Content Summary pane.

Example statistics with Count, Correct, Partial, Incorrect, Success Rate, p-Value, d-Value, p-Biserial and r-Biserial values.

NOTE: If there have been no attempts at your content, a message will appear in the Statistics field stating that there are no statistics available for this content.

Message in Statistics pane that no statistics are currently available for this question

IMPORTANT: Statistics—when viewed using the Content Repository—capture all attempts at the piece of content across all activities that it's contained in. These results don't discriminate between a student's level of mastery when the statistical values are computed. Check out View item statistics to use the Gradebook to view the data that represents how students performed on a question within a specific activity. Example — If a question about a newly-learned concept is first attempted on an introductory assignment, the students viewing this question may find it more difficult and perform less optimally than when it is presented on a subsequent review assignment. Therefore, the statistics displayed in the Content Repository's Content Summary pane will be less specific to the students completing the activity than when they are viewed using the Gradebook's Item Statistics page.

NOTE: Content Summary pane statistics are collected from attempts at the content from all activity types. In order for these statistics to be calculated, the piece of content must be accessible to a student by being contained within an activity.

Click each statistic heading in the Content Summary pane for a pop-up to display how the value was calculated.

Statistic	Explanation
Count	The number of times students have attempted this question.
Correct	The number of times a student has answered this question and received a score of 1.0/1.0.
Partial	The number of times a student has received a partial mark (0.0 < x < 1.0/1.0) for this question.
Incorrect	The number of times a student has received a score of 0.0/1.0 for this question.
Success Rate	The average normalized score on the item. With each item graded between 0.0 and 1.0 (normalized), the average score is computed over the set of all scores recorded for that item.
p-Value	The ratio of the number of fully correct responses to the total number of responses in the data set. A question is deemed to be fully correct only if it has a score of 1.0/1.0. p = F/n F = number of fully correct responses n = number of responses
d-Value	The discrimination of an item. The dataset of scores is divided into 2 groups: those in the top-scoring half of the set and those on the bottom-scoring half. The p-Value for each group is calculated. The d-Value is the difference of the p-Value between the 2 groups. d = (F1/n1) - (F2/n2) F1 = number of fully correct responses from n1 F2 = number of fully correct responses from n2 n1 = number of activities with scores >= median grade for the activity n2 = number of activities with scores < median grade for the activity
p-Biserial	A correlation coefficient relating the performance on an item and performance on the total activity. An index of discrimination that measures the extent to which students who score high on the activity tend to get the item correct and those who score low tend to get the item incorrect. Y₁ = mean grade of activities on which this item was answered correctly (1.0). Y₀ = mean grade of activities on which this item was answered incorrectly. p = p-Value q = 1-p = standard deviation for activity grades.
r-Biserial	A correlation coefficient relating performance on an item and performance on the total activity. An index of discrimination that measures the extent to which students who score high on the activity tend to get the item correct and those who score low tend to get the item incorrect. Y₁ = mean grade of activities on which this item was answered correctly (1.0). Y₀ = mean grade of activities on which this item was answered incorrectly. p = p-Value q = 1-p Y = the height of the standardized normal distribution at the point z, where P(z'<z)=q and P(z'>z)=p. = standard deviation for activity grades.

TIP: Click the statistic heading again to make the pop-up message disappear.

Hints

Hints are used to help guide your students to the correct response during an activity attempt.

Check out Author a hint.

Revisions

Anytime content is edited, a new version of the content is generated and recorded as a revision.

When a content edit is made, the Revisions field in the Content Summary pane stores each historical version of the content with a time stamp to indicate when it was last modified.

Under the Revisions heading, a list of timestamps is highlighted.

By default, when a user attempts an activity that includes the content with revisions, the most current (recent) revision of the content will be the version that they see in their activity.

In the Revisions field, you can:

Under the Revisions heading, to the right of each timestamp are the View, Clone and Make Current buttons.

A. View — Click View to preview the content revision.

B. Clone — Click Clone to copy the content into your class so that you can make a new set of revisions to it (and also have your version of the content be unaffected if the original author makes edits).

C. Make Current — Click Make Current to assign an older content revision as the version to be seen in future attempts at the activity containing the content.

NOTE: The Make Current function will not affect activity attempts that are in progress or have already been completed.

NOTE: The most current (recent) revision is indicated by not having the Make Current button available.

For the most recent revision, there is an empty space next to the Clone button.

What's next?

Now that you've understood the Content Summary pane, you're ready to:

Organize units