Item Authoring – Clean Formatting

A new toolbar option has been introduced, enabling item authors to clean the formatting of a selected section within the text editor.

Item Authoring – Decouple the Format Approval and Item Preview

You no longer need to set format approval during an Item Preview. Instead, the item’s formatting can be verified and approved as part of your workflow.

Examination Publishing – Pearson VUE Athena Untimed Sections

The auto_advance_timeout QTI attribute in sections without a specified duration previously caused examination compilation errors. Pro!’s publishing process will exclude this attribute for untimed sections.

Examination Publishing – Pearson VUE Athena Exit Confirmation

A new examination definition option allows you to specify whether a message should be shown to candidates when they leave a section. When published, this setting is written to the QTI as the exit_confirmation attribute.

Examination Publishing – Enhancement to displayed messages

During the publishing process, errors and warning messages are displayed to the user. These messages have been improved to include more detailed information, making it easier to resolve issues.

Social Media Logo Updates

Pro!’s Twitter logo was updated to reflect the new X logo.

Item Review Project Creation – Poolbook Access

Pro! ensures that only the Campaign Edit OCR role is required to create and fully define an item review project.

Item Writing and Review Projects – Enhanced training material support

Testing programs can now provide multiple training materials (URLs) to item writers and reviewers. Authorized users can add, remove, and rearrange these URLs and their displayed text. A default set of materials can be applied to newly created projects by request. Additionally, all training materials are carried forward automatically when projects are cloned.

Classification Description – Search Results and Poolbooks

Pro! allows users to customize item search results by adding columns. In addition to viewing an item’s assigned Classification Code in the search results table, users can now include the Classification Description. Column management has been enhanced for both item search results and poolbook details. Users can also include Classification Descriptions when generating reports from a poolbook.

• Apply the desired Classification Description columns for Item Search and Poolbooks

• Move the desired Classification Description columns from the Available Fields list into the Selected Fields list. Adjust the order by dragging the fields into the correct position.

Enhanced Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Support

Alternative text, or alt text, is a written description of an image or other visual element on a web page or document that screen readers and other assistive technologies read. It is a requirement of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and is essential for web accessibility.

Pro! enables authorized users to add alt-text to equations or expressions when creating or editing them. The alt-text is included in the Pearson Vue Athena Browser Edition QTI upon publishing an examination, making it accessible to screen readers.

Item Writing and Review Projects – Enhanced training material support

The training URLs defined for the project are shown to item writers and reviewers in a scrollable list. When a URL is selected, it opens in a new tab.

Item Review – Support for Rationale Editing

Item rationales can be edited during the review process. The Primary Reviewer can enable rationale editing when initiating a new review round. Primary and Secondary reviewers can compare and approve rationale changes when working on an item copy. Rationale changes are displayed using the same visual highlighting used for item content modifications.

Get User-Defined Fields (UDF) for an Item

This Endpoint retrieves the specified item’s user-defined fields (UDF). Null fields will not be in the returned data. If the item has no UDFs, an empty array will be returned. Since the Item ID is part of the request URL, this API will always return a single result.

Get User-Defined Fields (UDF) for a Poolbook of Items

This endpoint will retrieve user-defined fields (UDF) for items within the specified poolbook. Null fields will not be in the returned data. If the item has no UDF data, an empty array will be returned. Since the Poolbook ID is part of the request URL, this API will always return a result. If the Poolbook ID does not exist, an error message will be returned.

Get Item References for an Item

This endpoint retrieves item Reference Notes. Null fields will not be in the returned data. If the item does not have any Reference Notes, an empty array will be returned. Since the Item ID is part of the request URL, this API will always return a single result.

Get Item References for a Poolbook of Items

This endpoint retrieves reference notes for all items within a poolbook. Null fields will not be in the returned data. An empty array will be returned if the item has no reference notes. Since the Poolbook ID is part of the request URL, this API will always return a result. If the Poolbook ID does not exist, an error message will be returned.

See the Swagger documentation for complete details.

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