Creating an oral exam

Background

An oral exam typically consists of:

• one or more information pages
• one or more oral items

The procedure to create an oral exam is the same as for a standard exam:

• First, create your oral items and information pages in the item bank.
• Then create the exam and add your items. More info.

Some restrictions, however, apply to an oral exam. For more info, see below.

Creating oral items

Proceed as follows to create an Oral item:

1. Go to Authoring > Items.
2. Go to the folder in which you want to add your item.
3. Click on to add an item. 
4. Select Oral.
   Result: The content pane of the item is opened.
5. Enter the item name in the breadcrumb at the top.
6. Click in the content block and fill in the instruction.
7. Click+Add block if you want to add additional content blocks.
8. Optionally, change the scoring mechanism to Manual scoring with criteria or Manual scoring with a rubric. More info. 
9. Click Preview to try out your item.

Limitations of oral exams

When using oral items, please note the following limitations:

• The item type Oral can only be used in exams. 
  It is not possible to use oral items in exercise assignments. 
• Exams in which oral items are used must have linear navigation or automatic navigation.
  It is not possible to use oral items in an exam with free navigation or free navigation within parts. 
• Exams in which oral items are used cannot contain other item types than information pages and cases. The information pages and oral items can optionally be combined into a case, but no other item types are supported in an oral exam.
• The item type Oral cannot be used in adaptive assignments.
• The item type Oral is not supported in offline packages.  
• It is not possible to monitor exams containing oral items. 
• Oral exams can only be graded when they are started with access codes. Oral exams that are scheduled on the portal cannot be graded. 
• Sessions of oral exams for which grading tasks have started, cannot be reopened.