Exhibit Management
About
Tests include pictures and other media more frequently than in the past. Often an item contains two or more media components, and the components may appear in the stimulus, stem, answer choices, or all three. These media components create issues for item banking systems. Pro! is designed to seamlessly manage media and offers an integrated digital asset management system workflow.
Definitions
Exhibits
An exhibit is a picture (image) or video. Image exhibits typically contain photos, drawings, medical X-rays, tables, and graphs. Videos may contain anything of importance to the assessment organization.
Exhibit Catalog
Pro! keeps exhibits in a special catalog. A user can view the list of exhibits in the catalog and search for a particular exhibit. The catalog is part of the Pro! database – that is, Pro! keeps the exhibit in the same database as the items. So a routine backup of items also backs up the exhibits.
The exhibit catalog is more than just a place to keep exhibits; it centralizes their management because the catalog contains all exhibits whether they are used in an item or not. It also keeps data items about each exhibit. The data items are too numerous to mention here, but some of the most important is the copyright year, whether permission to use the exhibit has expired, the original size, the desired display size, source reference, and classification. The catalog also keeps a list of items that include each exhibit. This list is viewable from the catalog entry.
Exhibit Classifications
Like items, exhibits can be classified using a taxonomy configured and maintained by an authorized user. Classifying exhibits helps other users find the right exhibit in a large exhibit catalog. For example, classifying anatomical pictures can help in finding a photo of a hand from the thousands of anatomical photos available.
Pro! supports an unlimited number of exhibit classifications for each exam title. When an item author adds an exhibit to an item for a given exam title (or group of exam titles), Pro! prompts the user to make classification choices.
In Summary
Pro! integrates the management and use of your digital assets. Item authors can easily add new or existing exhibits to items. The media manager can edit the exhibits, track the items using an exhibit, and manage permitted-use exhibits to prevent infringement. Test building automatically converts and scales exhibits to the test driver’s specifications.